
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.
Movie Appearances

This Is Not a Love Song
as Spike
2002

Heart of Lightness
as Arnholm
2014

Soundproof
as Connor
2006

Sunday
as Gerard Donaghy
2002

Song of Songs
as Journalist Voice
2005

Good Vibrations
as Dave Hyndman
2012

Sinners
as Eamonn
2002

The Year London Blew Up
as Joseph O'Connell
2005

Occupation
as Davis
2009

Lennon Naked
as Derek Taylor
2010

Urchin
as Scott
2025
You'll Never Believe Who's Dead
as Fr Kavanaugh
TBA
TV Appearances

Raw
as Mal Martin
2008

New Tricks
as Buzz McCaffery
2004

The Fall
as Sheldon Schwartz
2013

Great Expectations
as Anxious Man
2011

The Thick of It
as Declan
2005

Surviving Disaster
2006

Chernobyl
as Mikhail Shadov
2019

Midsomer Murders
as Father Behan
1997

The Crown
as IRA Lieutenant
2016

Say Nothing
as Older Gerry Adams
2024

The Thick of It
as Mr. Chop
2005