Michael Colgan
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.
Acting
TV
Chernobyl
as Mikhail Shadov
2019
TV
The Crown
as IRA Lieutenant
2016
TV
The Fall
as Sheldon Schwartz
2013
TV
Midsomer Murders
as Father Behan
1997
TV
The Thick of It
as Declan
2005
TV
The Thick of It
as Mr. Chop
2005
Movie
Good Vibrations
as Dave Hyndman
2012
TV
Great Expectations
as Anxious Man
2011
TV
Say Nothing
as Older Gerry Adams
2024
TV
New Tricks
as Buzz McCaffery
2004
Movie
Urchin
as Scott
2025
Movie
Lennon Naked
as Derek Taylor
2010
Movie
Occupation
as Davis
2009
Movie
Sunday
as Gerard Donaghy
2002
Movie
Heart of Lightness
as Arnholm
2014
Movie
Song of Songs
as Journalist Voice
2005
Movie
This Is Not a Love Song
as Spike
2002
Movie
Soundproof
as Connor
2006
Movie
Sinners
as Eamonn
2002
TV
Surviving Disaster
2006
Movie
The Year London Blew Up
as Joseph O'Connell
2005
TV
Raw
as Mal Martin
2008
Movie
You'll Never Believe Who's Dead
as Fr Kavanaugh