Michael Colgan

Acting

Born December 1, 1972, Keady, Northern Ireland

Michael Colgan (born 1972-1973) as Michael Hughes in Keady, County Armagh) is a Northern Irish actor, novelist and academic, currently a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London Colgan was educated at Saint Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh and did his undergraduate studies in English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, then completed a MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, followed by a PhD at London Metropolitan University. He also studied at l'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has lived in London.

Filmography

• 2026You'll Never Believe Who's Dead — Fr Kavanaugh
• 2025Urchin — Scott
• Say Nothing — Older Gerry Adams
• This England — Gabriel
• Chernobyl — Mikhail Shadov
• The Crown — IRA Lieutenant
• 2014Heart of Lightness — Arnholm
• The Fall — Sheldon Schwartz
• 2012Good Vibrations — Dave Hyndman
• Great Expectations — Anxious Man
• 2010Lennon Naked — Derek Taylor
• 2009Occupation — Davis
• Raw — Mal Martin
• 2006Soundproof — Connor
• Surviving Disaster
• 2005Song of Songs — Journalist Voice
• The Thick of It — Declan, Mr. Chop
• 2005The Year London Blew Up — Joseph O'Connell
• New Tricks — Buzz McCaffery
• 2002Sinners — Eamonn
• 2002Sunday — Gerard Donaghy
• 2002This Is Not a Love Song — Spike
• Midsomer Murders — Father Behan