Colin Morgan

Northern Irish actor

Person · Open Library

Works: 13

Top works

The Ballad of Ronan McCoy
Ballad of Ronan Mccoy
Operation Wendy
Organization Development
Hill Beneath

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Film & TV

Acting · Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK

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…

Known for

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema — Earl Clancy2026
Long Day's Journey into Night — Edmund Tyrone2025
The Dead Don't Hurt — Lewis Cartwright2024
Dead and Buried — Michael McAllister2024
The Chronicles of Armagh — (voice)2024
The Boy That Never Was — Harry Lonergan2024
Dead Shot — Michael O'Hara2023
The Killing Kind — John Webster2023
Corsage — Bay Middleton2022
Mammals — Jeff Wilson2022

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United Kingdom
Active from: 1986

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 155
Total plays: 3,206

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
· 2014 · cited 21,543x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,953x
RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,547x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,514x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x

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Key facts

Born: ( 1986-01-01 ) 1 January 1986 (age 40) , Armagh , Northern Ireland
Education: Integrated College Dungannon , Belfast Institute for Further and Higher Education
Alma mater: Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 2007–present

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Commons category: Colin Morgan
date of birth: 1986-00-00
start of work period: 2007-00-00
name in native language: Colin Morgan

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Colin Morgan (born 1 January 1986) 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.