Colin Morgan is one of the most popular and richest TV Actor who was born on January 1, 1986 in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Irish actor best known for playing the title role in the BBC series Merlin. He has also performed in several stage productions, including A Prayer For My Daughter and Shakespeare‘s The Tempest.
He has cited Sean Penn as one of his favorite actors.
In 1997, Morgan began studies at Integrated College Dungannon. Morgan starred in several college productions including Surgical Sensations at St. Senapods and Bad Day at Black Frog Creek.
Morgan was awarded a National Diploma in Performing Arts from the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education in 2004. He graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2007. In the final year of his undergraduate course, he was discovered by theatre director Rufus Norris and made the decision to leave three-quarters of the way through to make his professional London West End theatre debut as the title character in Vernon God Little. Morgan’s performance was well received and used as an assessment for his final grade.
He has a brother named Neil. He began dating his Merlin co-star Katie McGrath in 2010 and they got engaged in October 2016.
