Michael Colgan
Born: 1972-12-01 in Keady, Northern Ireland
Known For: Acting
Biography
Michael Colgan (born 1972-1973) as Michael Hughes in Keady, County Armagh) is a Northern Irish actor, novelist and academic, currently a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London Colgan was educated at Saint Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh and did his undergraduate studies in English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, then completed a MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, followed by a PhD at London Metropolitan University. He also studied at l'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has lived in London.
Filmography
2025
- Urchin as Scott
2024
- Say Nothing as Older Gerry Adams
2019
- Chernobyl as Mikhail Shadov
2016
- The Crown as IRA Lieutenant
2014
- Heart of Lightness as Arnholm
2013
- The Fall as Sheldon Schwartz
2012
- Good Vibrations as Dave Hyndman
2011
- Great Expectations as Anxious Man
2010
- Lennon Naked as Derek Taylor
2009
- Occupation as Davis
2008
- Raw as Mal Martin
2006
- Surviving Disaster
- Soundproof as Connor
2005
- The Thick of It as Declan
- The Year London Blew Up as Joseph O'Connell
- Song of Songs as Journalist Voice
2004
- New Tricks as Buzz McCaffery
2002
- Sinners as Eamonn
- Sunday as Gerard Donaghy
- This Is Not a Love Song as Spike
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Father Behan