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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1986-01-01 (39 years old)

Place of Birth

Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK

Colin Morgan

Biography:

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.

Known For

Acting

2025

2024

The Dead Don't Hurt as Lewis Cartwright
Dead and Buried as Michael McAllister
The Boy That Never Was as Harry Dillon

2023

Dead Shot as Michael O'Hara
The Killing Kind as John Webster

2022

Corsage as Bay Middleton
Mammals as Jeff Wilson

2021

Belfast as Billy Clanton
Three Families as Johnathan

2020

2019

Benjamin as Benjamin

2018

2017

Waiting for You as Paul Ashton

2016

The Huntsman: Winter's War as Duke of Blackwood
The Living and the Dead as Nathan Appleby
The Crown as John Armstrong

2015

Testament of Youth as Victor Richardson
Legend as Frank Shea
Humans as Leo Elster

2014

2013

The Fall as Tom Anderson

2011

Island as Calum

2010

Parked as Cathal O'Regan

2009

2008

Merlin as Merlin

2006

The One Show as Self

2005

Doctor Who as Jethro Cane

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The Rising: 1916 as Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott
One Night Only as Earl Clancy