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Colin Morgan

Acting
Known For

39 Years Old

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.

Born

Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK on 1st January 1986

All Credits

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