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.
19 movies · 18 shows
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
2026·8.0
Long Day's Journey into Night
2025·10.0
The Dead Don't Hurt
2024·6.5
Dead Shot
2023·5.4
Corsage
2022·6.1
Belfast
2021·7.0
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019·8.5
Benjamin
2019·6.1
National Theatre Collection: Translations
2018·0.0
The Happy Prince
2018·6.2
Waiting for You
2017·5.5
The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016·6.3
The Laughing King
2016·8.5
Legend
2015·7.1
Testament of Youth
2015·7.2
The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2014·8.3
Island
2011·5.2
Parked
2010·6.6
The Real Merlin and Arthur
2009·6.7