Colin Morgan
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Doctor Who
Jethro Cane
2005
Series
The Crown
John Armstrong
2016
Series
The One Show
Self
2006
Series
Merlin
Merlin
2008
Series
The Sandman
Sexton
2022
Series
Humans
Leo Elster
2015
Series
The Fall
Tom Anderson
2013
Film
Legend
Frank Shea
2015
Film
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Duke of Blackwood
2016
Film
Belfast
Billy Clanton
2021
Series
Mammals
Jeff Wilson
2022
Series
Quirke
Jimmy Minor
2014
Series
Merlin: Secrets and Magic
Self
2009
Series
The Living and the Dead
Nathan Appleby
2016
Film
Dead Shot
Michael O'Hara
2023
Series
The Killing Kind
John Webster
2023
Film
Testament of Youth
Victor Richardson
2015
Series
We Hunt Together
Liam Gates
2020
Film
The Dead Don't Hurt
Lewis Cartwright
2024
Film
Corsage
Bay Middleton
2022
Film
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
Earl Clancy
2026
Series
The Boy That Never Was
Harry Lonergan
2024
Series
Dead and Buried
Michael McAllister
2024
Series
Three Families
Jonathan Kennedy
2021
Film
The Happy Prince
Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
2018
Film
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Chris Keller
2019
Film
The Real Merlin and Arthur
Colin Morgan
2009
Film
Benjamin
Benjamin
2019
Film
Long Day's Journey into Night
Edmund Tyrone
2025
Film
Waiting for You
Paul Ashton
2017
Film
The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Ariel
2014
Film
Parked
Cathal O'Regan
2010
The Rising: 1916
Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott
The Chronicles of Armagh
(voice)
2024
Film
National Theatre Collection: Translations
Owen
2018
Film
Island
Calum
2011
The Emperor's Stone
Film
The Laughing King
Jake
2016
Series
Chronicles of the Glens
Narrator
2021
Heartless