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

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

Appearances as themselves (3)

• Mountain Vets — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Merlin: Secrets and Magic — Self
• The One Show — Self