Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
2026 · Movie
as Earl Clancy
Colin Morgan
1986-01-01
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Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
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
Long Day's Journey into Night
2025 · Movie
as Edmund Tyrone
The Dead Don't Hurt
2024 · Movie
as Lewis Cartwright
Dead and Buried
2024 · TV Show
as Michael McAllister
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The Chronicles of Armagh
2024 · TV Show
as (voice)
The Boy That Never Was
2024 · TV Show
as Harry Lonergan
Dead Shot
2023 · Movie
as Michael O'Hara
The Killing Kind
2023 · TV Show
as John Webster
Corsage
2022 · Movie
as Bay Middleton
Mammals
2022 · TV Show
as Jeff Wilson
The Sandman
2022 · TV Show
as Sexton
Belfast
2021 · Movie
as Billy Clanton
Chronicles of the Glens
2021 · TV Show
as Narrator
Three Families
2021 · TV Show
as Jonathan Kennedy
We Hunt Together
2020 · TV Show
as Liam Gates
Trying
2020 · TV Show
as Kerry
Benjamin
2019 · Movie
as Benjamin
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019 · Movie
as Chris Keller
The Happy Prince
2018 · Movie
as Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
National Theatre Collection: Translations
2018 · Movie
as Owen
Waiting for You
2017 · Movie
as Paul Ashton
The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016 · Movie
as Duke of Blackwood
The Laughing King
2016 · Movie
as Jake
The Living and the Dead
2016 · TV Show
as Nathan Appleby
The Crown
2016 · TV Show
as John Armstrong
Testament of Youth
2015 · Movie
as Victor Richardson
Legend
2015 · Movie
as Frank Shea
Humans
2015 · TV Show
as Leo Elster
The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2014 · Movie
as Ariel
Quirke
2014 · TV Show
as Jimmy Minor
The Fall
2013 · TV Show
as Tom Anderson
Island
2011 · Movie
as Calum
Parked
2010 · Movie
as Cathal O'Regan
The Real Merlin and Arthur
2009 · Movie
as Colin Morgan
Merlin: Secrets and Magic
2009 · TV Show
as Self
Merlin
2008 · TV Show
as Merlin
The One Show
2006 · TV Show
as Self
Doctor Who
2005 · TV Show
as Jethro Cane
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The Rising: 1916
· Movie
as Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott
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Heartless
· Movie
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The Emperor's Stone
· TV Show
