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.
Filmography (37 titles)
10.0MovieOnce Upon a Time in a Cinema
Earl Clancy · 2026
10.0MovieLong Day's Journey into Night
Edmund Tyrone · 2025
5.2ShowDead and Buried
Michael McAllister · 2024
6.1ShowThe Boy That Never Was
Harry Lonergan · 2024
6.5MovieThe Dead Don't Hurt
Lewis Cartwright · 2024
The Chronicles of Armagh
(voice) · 2024
6.3ShowThe Killing Kind
John Webster · 2023
5.4MovieDead Shot
Michael O'Hara · 2023
5.7ShowMammals
Jeff Wilson · 2022
7.9ShowThe Sandman
Sexton · 2022
6.1MovieCorsage
Bay Middleton · 2022
7.0MovieBelfast
Billy Clanton · 2021
7.6ShowThree Families
Jonathan Kennedy · 2021
7.0ShowChronicles of the Glens
Narrator · 2021
7.0ShowWe Hunt Together
Liam Gates · 2020
8.5MovieNational Theatre Live: All My Sons
Chris Keller · 2019
6.1MovieBenjamin
Benjamin · 2019
MovieNational Theatre Collection: Translations
Owen · 2018
6.2MovieThe Happy Prince
Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas · 2018
5.5MovieWaiting for You
Paul Ashton · 2017
8.2ShowThe Crown
John Armstrong · 2016
6.7ShowThe Living and the Dead
Nathan Appleby · 2016
6.3MovieThe Huntsman: Winter's War
Duke of Blackwood · 2016
8.5MovieThe Laughing King
Jake · 2016
7.1MovieLegend
Frank Shea · 2015
7.5ShowHumans
Leo Elster · 2015
7.3MovieTestament of Youth
Victor Richardson · 2015
8.3MovieThe Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Ariel · 2014
5.9ShowQuirke
Jimmy Minor · 2014
7.7ShowThe Fall
Tom Anderson · 2013