
Michael Colgan
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.
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Acting History
2025
Urchin as Scott
2024Say Nothing as Older Gerry Adams
2019Chernobyl as Mikhail Shadov
2016The Crown as IRA Lieutenant
2014Heart of Lightness as Arnholm
2013The Fall as Sheldon Schwartz
2012Good Vibrations as Dave Hyndman
2011Great Expectations as Anxious Man
2010Lennon Naked as Derek Taylor
2009Occupation as Davis
2008Raw as Mal Martin
2006Soundproof as Connor
2006Surviving Disaster
2005The Year London Blew Up as Joseph O'Connell
2005Song of Songs as Journalist Voice
2005The Thick of It as Declan
2004New Tricks as Buzz McCaffery
2002Sinners as Eamonn
2002Sunday as Gerard Donaghy
2002This Is Not a Love Song as Spike
1997Midsomer Murders as Father Behan









