Colin Morgan trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, where he studied classical and contemporary theater and graduated in 2007. His first notable screen credit came in 2008, when he played Jethro Cane in the Doctor Who episode "Midnight." That year he also took the title role in BBC One's Merlin, a fantasy series that reimagined the Arthurian legends around a young wizard and ran for five series through 2012.
Merlin made Morgan a familiar face on British television. He followed it with the 2010 film Parked, playing Cathal O'Regan, and with stage work that included Ariel in The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe in 2013. From 2013 to 2016 he played DS Tom Anderson in the BBC crime drama The Fall, alongside Gillian Anderson, and in 2015 he began playing Leo Elster in the science-fiction series Humans.
Morgan's film roles include Victor Richardson in Testament of Youth (2014), Lord Alfred Douglas in The Happy Prince (2018), and Billy Clanton in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast (2021). He also appeared in the 2016 supernatural drama The Living and the Dead. Across television, film, and theater, he has built a career playing characters that range from legendary figures to contemporary detectives and science-fiction outsiders.
Colin Morgan was born on January 1, 1986 in Armagh, N Ireland, United Kingdom. In Cardology (Destiny Cards), January 1, 1986 corresponds to the King of Spades, making the King of Spades his Birth Card.
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