Colin Morgan is an incredibly diverse Northern Irish actor, having recently been seen in Kenneth Branagh’s 2021 academy award-nominated film Belfast. He is most known for starring in the title role in BBC fantasy-adventure drama ‘Merlin’ from 2008-2012, for which he was awarded multiple accolades. The series follows a young King Arthur and Merlin growing up in Camelot when Arthur’s father has banned magic.
Morgan is also known for co-starring with Gemma Chan in the hit 2015 sci-fi drama Humans as part-synth fugitive Leo Elster. The series explores the blurring of the lines between humans and machines and became Channel 4’s biggest original drama in twenty years.
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Colin Morgan is an incredibly diverse Northern Irish actor, having recently been seen in Kenneth Branagh’s 2021 academy award-nominated film Belfast. He is most known for starring in the title role in BBC fantasy-adventure drama ‘Merlin’ from 2008-2012, for which he was awarded multiple accolades. The series follows a young King Arthur and Merlin growing up in Camelot when Arthur’s father has banned magic.
Morgan is also known for co-starring with Gemma Chan in the hit 2015 sci-fi drama Humans as part-synth fugitive Leo Elster. The series explores the blurring of the lines between humans and machines and became Channel 4’s biggest original drama in twenty years.
After Merlin, in 2014, Morgan became a series regular in the hit BBC psychological crime thriller The Fall, starring Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan. He was also in the World War One drama Testament of Youth, where Vera Brittain abandons her studies at Oxford to become a nurse.
In 2016, Morgan starred in the BBC supernatural series The Living and the Dead with Charlotte Spencer as a young couple who inherited an old farmhouse during the industrial revolution. Morgan has since landed numerous film roles in the crime thriller Legend starring Tom Hardy, Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince and blockbuster fantasy The Huntsman: Winter’s War starring Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron. In 2018, Morgan starred in Simon Amstell’s award-winning LGBTQ+ comedy drama Benjamin as a rising filmmaker preparing to premiere his second film.
In 2021, Morgan portrayed Billy Clanton in Belfast, starring Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench and Catriona Balfe. That same year he starred in the BBC miniseries Three Families about the real-life effects of Northern Ireland’s restrictive abortion law before it was lifted in 2019.
Recently, Morgan wrapped filming on series two of the BBC drama We Hunt Together.
