Name
Michael Colgan
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1972-12-01 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Keady, Northern Ireland
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.
Known For
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The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley ...
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A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart....
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Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason....
- 2002 This Is Not a Love Song as Spike
- 2014 Heart of Lightness as Arnholm
- 2006 Soundproof as Connor
- 2002 Sunday as Gerard Donaghy
- 2005 Song of Songs as Journalist Voice
- 2012 Good Vibrations as Dave Hyndman
- 2002 Sinners as Eamonn
- 2005 The Year London Blew Up as Joseph O'Connell
- 2009 Occupation as Davis
- 2010 Lennon Naked as Derek Taylor
- 2025 Urchin as Scott
- 2026 You'll Never Believe Who's Dead as Fr Kavanaugh
- 2008 Raw ( 6 episodes ) as Mal Martin
- 2004 New Tricks ( 1 episode ) as Buzz McCaffery
- 2013 The Fall ( 1 episode ) as Sheldon Schwartz
- 2011 Great Expectations ( 1 episode ) as Anxious Man
- 2005 The Thick of It ( 1 episode ) as Declan
- 2006 Surviving Disaster ( 1 episode )
- 2019 Chernobyl ( 1 episode ) as Mikhail Shadov
- 1997 Midsomer Murders ( 1 episode ) as Father Behan
- 2016 The Crown ( 1 episode ) as IRA Lieutenant
- 2024 Say Nothing ( 3 episodes ) as Older Gerry Adams
- 2005 The Thick of It ( 2 episodes ) as Mr. Chop
- 2022 This England ( 1 episode ) as Gabriel
