
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.
Filmography

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
2026
as Earl Clancy

Long Day's Journey into Night
2025
as Edmund Tyrone

The Dead Don't Hurt
2024
as Lewis Cartwright

Dead Shot
2023
as Michael O'Hara

Corsage
2022
as Bay Middleton

Belfast
2021
as Billy Clanton

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 Huntsman: Winter's War
2016
as Duke of Blackwood

The Laughing King
2016
as Jake

Legend
2015
as Frank Shea

Testament of Youth
2015
as Victor Richardson

The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2014
as Ariel

Island
2011
as Calum

Parked
2010
as Cathal O'Regan

The Real Merlin and Arthur
2009
as Colin Morgan
- No poster
The Rising: 1916
Unreleased
as Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott
- No poster
Heartless
Unreleased