COLIN MORGAN
Colin Morgan (born 1 January 1986) is a Northern Irish film, television and theatre actor best known for playing the title character in the BBC TV series Merlin. He made his West End theatre acting debut in 2007 as Vernon Little in DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little. Since then, he has been in the London theatre productions Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter (2008), Pedro Miguel Rozo's Our Private Life (2011), Step in Time at The Old Vic 24 Hour Musicals Celebrity Gala (2012), Shakespeare's The Tempest (2013), and Jez Butterworth's Mojo (2013–14). His first main part on television was as the title character in the BBC TV series Merlin (2008–12). He is a recent addition to the second series of award-winning Northern Ireland television crime drama The Fall (2014) as Tom Anderson. He will also portray the lead role Leo in the AMC/Channel 4 Sci-fi TV Series Humans (2015). His film roles include Parked (2010) and Island (2011). His current film projects Testament of Youth and Legend are scheduled for release in 2015. Additionally, he has been cast as Sean MacDiarmada, the film's lead, in the historical 1916 Irish Easter Rising 100 year anniversary film, The Rising (2016).
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
---|---|---|
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Merlin (2008-2012)
Merlin is a British fantasy-adventure television programme, created by Julian Jones, Jake Michie, Julian Murphy and Johnny Capps and starring Colin Morgan in the title role. It was broadcast on BBC One from 20 September 2008 to 24 December 2012. The show is loosely based on the Arthurian legends of the young wizard Merlin and his relationship with King Arthur but differs from traditional versions. Colin Morgan played the lead role, Merlin.
Doctor Who (2008)
Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC from 1963 to the present day. The programme depicts the adventures of the Doctor, a Time Lord—a time-travelling humanoid alien. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-travelling space ship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, the Doctor combats a variety of foes while working to save civilisations and help people in need.
Colin Morgan played Jethro Cane. Jethro Cane was the son of Val and Biff. He was on holiday with his parents to see the planet Midnight but it all went wrong as a sinister force attacked the shuttle bus and the knocking on the walls began.
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
---|---|---|
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
![]() |
The Catherine Tate Show (2007 - 2009)
The Catherine Tate Show is a British television sketch comedy written by Catherine Tate and Aschlin Ditta. Tate also stars in all but one of the show's sketches, which feature a wide range of characters. The Catherine Tate Show airs on BBC Two and is shown worldwide through the BBC. Collectively, the show has been nominated for six BAFTA Awards, two British Comedy Awards and an Emmy Award, and it has won two Royal Television Society Awards, two British Comedy Awards and a National Television Award since its debut in 2004. Colin Morgan played John Leary.
![]() | ![]() |
---|
Parked (2010)
Parked is a 2010 drama film directed by Darragh Byrne. Colin Morgan played Cathal.
Fred (Colm Meaney) lives a quiet, isolated life in his car, having lost all hope of improving his situation. That all changes when he forms an unlikely friendship with Cathal (Colin Morgan), a dope-smoking 21-year-old with a positive attitude, who becomes his ‘neighbour’. Sharing laughs and the hard times too, Fred and Cathal find the simple, free pleasures of life.
Cathal is determined to make Fred sort out his life and it works. Fred modifies his car, beats the welfare system and makes a friend in Jules, an attractive music teacher who lives alone nearby. But Fred struggles with his pride to tell Jules about his ‘home’ and Cathal’s life is threatened by his escalating drug habit. As they grow closer, the influence of these three outsiders on each other will change their lives.
Fred's trust in Cathal was soon thwarted when he discovered Cathal injecting drugs into the veins of his feet. Cathal had sworn he had never injected, even showing Fred his arms as proof. Fred shouts at Cathal and then storms away to see Jules. While Fred is gone, Cathal is attacked by his drug dealer. Beaten and exhausted, Cathal sneaks into his dad's house, begging for money. His dad refuses to pay, and Cathal leaves. He then shows up at a bonfire with other drug addicts. They steal his shoes in exchange for a needle. Cathal injects himself in the arm and passes out.
Fred returns to find Cathal's car trashed and his treasured watch broken. He searches everywhere for Cathal, and eventually finds him in the mortuary. Cathal has died, but not before succeeding in improving Fred's life. Jules knows about Fred living in a car, and Fred is on the way to having a place of his own thanks to Cathal's persuasion. In the end, Cathal still managed to save Fred, though he couldn't do the same for himself.
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
---|---|---|
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
![]() |
Island (2011)
Based on 'Jane Rogers' acclaimed novel, "Island" is a tale of yearning and retribution. Abandoned at birth, Nikki Black has spent most of her life in care sustained only by fairy-stories. Incapable of love, fearful and desperate for revenge, she decides to find her birth mother, confront her, and bitter enough to consider murder. She travels incognito to a remote Hebridean island where Phyllis now lives as a recluse with Calum, her son.
Colin Morgan played Calum.
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
---|
Quirke (2014)
Quirke is a British-Irish crime drama television series that was first broadcast on BBC One and RTÉ One in 2014. The three-part series is based on the Quirke novels by John Banville. Colin Morgan played Jimmy Minor.
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
---|
The Tempest (2014)
Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this perfidious brother and his confederates on the island, his long contemplated revenge at last seems within reach. Colin Morgan played Ariel.
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
---|---|---|
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
MOJO (the play) (2014)
Colin Morgan played Skinny.
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
---|
The Fall (2014)
The Fall is a BBC crime drama television series set in Northern Ireland and created, written and directed by Allan Cubitt.
Colin Morgan played Tom Anderson.
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
---|
Testament of Youth (2014)
Testament of Youth is a 2014 British drama film directed by James Kent and written by Juliette Towhidi, based on the First World War memoir of the same name written by Vera Brittain. The film stars Colin Morgan as Victor Richardson, Alicia Vikander as Vera Brittain and Kit Harington as her fiancé Roland Leighton.
![]() | ![]() |
---|
Coming up in 2015 for Colin: Humans, a tv series set to air on Channel 4. Also the film: Legend, still in post production.
We will post more info as and when it happens.
The sources used for this page: wikipedia and imdb