Acting · Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK · Born January 1, 1986
Colin Morgan is an actor from Northern Ireland. He is known for playing the title character in the BBC fantasy series Merlin (2008–2012), Leo Elster in Humans (2015–2018), and Billy Clanton in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast (2021). Morgan made his London theatre debut in 2007 as the title character in DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little. He went on to appear in the theatre productions Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre ("All About My Mother") in 2007, Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter in 2008, Pedro Miguel Rozo's Our Private Life in 2011, Step in Time at The Old Vic 24 Hour Musicals Celebrity Gala in 2012, Shakespeare's The Tempest in 2013, and Jez Butterworth's Mojo during 2013 and 2014. In July 2008, Screen International named Morgan as a "Star of Tomorrow". For his performance in Merlin, Morgan was nominated for Outstanding Actor (Drama) in the Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards in 2009, 2010, and 2011, and Best Actor in Drama Performance: Male in the National Television Awards in 2013.
MovieOnce Upon a Time in a Cinema
2026
as Earl Clancy
MovieLong Day's Journey into Night
2025
as Edmund Tyrone
TVDead and Buried
2024
as Michael McAllister
TVThe Boy That Never Was
2024
as Harry Lonergan
MovieThe Dead Don't Hurt
2024
as Lewis Cartwright
The Chronicles of Armagh
2024
as (voice)
TVThe Killing Kind
2023
as John Webster
MovieDead Shot
2023
as Michael O'Hara
TVMammals
2022
as Jeff Wilson
TVThe Sandman
2022
as Sexton
MovieCorsage
2022
as Bay Middleton
MovieBelfast
2021
as Billy Clanton
TVThree Families
2021
as Jonathan Kennedy
TVChronicles of the Glens
2021
as Narrator
TVWe Hunt Together
2020
as Liam Gates
MovieNational Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019
as Chris Keller
MovieBenjamin
2019
as Benjamin
MovieNational Theatre Collection: Translations
2018
as Owen
MovieThe Happy Prince
2018
as Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
MovieWaiting for You
2017
as Paul Ashton
TVThe Crown
2016
as John Armstrong
TVThe Living and the Dead
2016
as Nathan Appleby
MovieThe Huntsman: Winter's War
2016
as Duke of Blackwood
MovieThe Laughing King
2016
as Jake
MovieLegend
2015
as Frank Shea
TVHumans
2015
as Leo Elster
MovieTestament of Youth
2015
as Victor Richardson
MovieThe Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2014
as Ariel
TVQuirke
2014
as Jimmy Minor
TVThe Fall
2013
as Tom Anderson
MovieIsland
2011
as Calum
MovieParked
2010
as Cathal O'Regan
MovieThe Real Merlin and Arthur
2009
as Colin Morgan
TVMerlin: Secrets and Magic
2009
as Self
TVMerlin
2008
as Merlin
TVThe One Show
2006
as Self
TVDoctor Who
2005
as Jethro Cane
The Rising: 1916
as Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott
Heartless
The Emperor's Stone
