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