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
Complete Filmography
Long Day's Journey into Night
2025
as Edmund Tyrone
Over the course of a day, a married couple, Mary and James Tyrone, and their two sons, Jamie and Edmund, grapple with Mary's morphine addiction and co...
The Dead Don't Hurt
2024
as Lewis Cartwright
In the 1860s, fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a journey with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen, attempting to forge a li...
Dead Shot
2023
as Michael O'Hara
In the 1970s, a member of the IRA takes over an Active Service Unit in London after his wife is accidentally shot dead in Ireland. The unit's mission ...
Corsage
2022
as Bay Middleton
A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 ...
Belfast
2021
as Billy Clanton
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his b...
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019
as Chris Keller
America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and estab...
Benjamin
2019
as Benjamin
Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film ’No Self' at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard...
National Theatre Collection: Translations
2018
as Owen
Owen, the prodigal son, returns to rural Donegal from Dublin. With him are two British army officers. Their ambition is to create a map of the area, r...
The Happy Prince
2018
as Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover....
Waiting for You
2017
as Paul Ashton
Compelled by grief and curiosity a young Englishman travels to France where he meets an eccentric older woman and unearths truths about the father he ...
The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016
as Duke of Blackwood
As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Hunts...
The Laughing King
2016
as Jake
A young man arrives in Blackpool, the seaside town of his childhood. Unable to reconcile the happy memories of his past with the bleak reality of the ...
Legend
2015
as Frank Shea
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using ...
Testament of Youth
2015
as Victor Richardson
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classi...
The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2014
as Ariel
Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and serve...
Island
2011
as Calum
Deeply damaged by being abandoned as a child and using fantasy as her only satisfaction, Nikki decides to track down her birth mother and take revenge...
Parked
2010
as Cathal O'Regan
Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely worl...
The Real Merlin and Arthur
2009
as Colin Morgan
In search for the true story behind the alternate & extremely modified TV version in Merlin on BBC, the 2 lead actors went to Wales only to discover t...
The Rising: 1916
N/A
as Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott
In the early 20th Century, a handsome young man leaves a small family farm and becomes the mastermind of a rebellion that changed Ireland forever. Fol...
One Night Only
N/A
as Earl Clancy
Earl Clancy, a cinema owner on the edge, battles a series of disasters while juggling personal turmoil and the chaos of a packed Friday night crowd --...