Colin Morgan
Known For
Acting
Born
1986-01-01 in Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
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.
Most Known For
Doctor Who
as Jethro Cane
The Crown
as John Armstrong
The One Show
as Self
Merlin
as Merlin
The Sandman
as Sexton
Humans
as Leo Elster
The Fall
as Tom Anderson
Legend
as Frank Shea
The Huntsman: Winter's War
as Duke of Blackwood
Corsage
as Bay Middleton
We Hunt Together
as Liam Gates
Three Families
as Johnathan
Belfast
as Billy Clanton
The Boy That Never Was
as Harry Lonergan
The Killing Kind
as John Webster
The Living and the Dead
as Nathan Appleby
Dead and Buried
as Michael McAllister
Mammals
as Jeff Wilson
The Dead Don't Hurt
as Lewis Cartwright
Merlin: Secrets and Magic
as Self