
Colin Morgan
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Acting Credits
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, Pe...
Known For
Filmography

Long Day's Journey into Night
2026
as Edmund Tyrone

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
2026
as Earl Clancy

The Dead Don't Hurt
2024
as Lewis Cartwright

Dead and Buried
2024
as Michael McAllister
The Chronicles of Armagh
2024
as (voice)

The Boy That Never Was
2024
as Harry Lonergan

Dead Shot
2023
as Michael O'Hara

The Killing Kind
2023
as John Webster

Corsage
2022
as Bay Middleton

Mammals
2022
as Jeff Wilson

The Sandman
2022
as Sexton

Belfast
2021
as Billy Clanton

Chronicles of the Glens
2021
as Narrator

Three Families
2021
as Jonathan Kennedy

We Hunt Together
2020
as Liam Gates

Trying
2020
as Kerry

Benjamin
2019
as Benjamin

National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019
as Chris Keller

Mountain Vets
2019
as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Happy Prince
2018
as Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

National Theatre Collection: Translations
2018
as Owen

Waiting for You
2017
as Paul Ashton

The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016
as Duke of Blackwood

The Laughing King
2016
as Jake

The Living and the Dead
2016
as Nathan Appleby

The Crown
2016
as John Armstrong

Testament of Youth
2015
as Victor Richardson

Legend
2015
as Frank Shea

Humans
2015
as Leo Elster

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 and Arthur
2009
as Colin Morgan

Merlin: Secrets and Magic
2009
as Self

Merlin
2008
as Merlin

The One Show
2006
as Self

Doctor Who
2005
as Jethro Cane