Michael Colgan (born Michael Hughes) is a Northern Irish actor and novelist.

Career

Born in Keady, County Armagh, Colgan was educated at Saint Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he read English. He studied at l'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has lived in London.

A notable early performance in Saint Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh was the role of Harpagon in Molière's L'Avare, which was performed entirely in French. After theatre school in Paris he went back to Ireland to work with his younger brother, film director Enda Hughes, in 1996 in the feature film The Eliminator.

He starred in the 2002 feature film This Is Not a Love Song directed by Bille Eltringham. He also spent a year working in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and has appeared in several television productions, including Rebel Heart and Sunday (2002) for the BBC.[1]

Colgan has worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company and in productions at the Royal Exchange, the Abbey Theatre, the Lyric Players' Theatre, Belfast, the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, the Young Vic and the Tricycle Theatre.

In 2009 he was appearing at the Young Vic in Rupert Goold's critically acclaimed production of King Lear starring Pete Postlethwaite.[2]

In 2013, Colgan played Richard Webb in the drama series What Remains. In 2014 he appeared in the first episode of the Channel 5 detective drama Suspects (TV series).

In 2016, Colgan published his first novel, The Countenance Divine, under his real name Michael Hughes.[3] His second novel, Country, was published in August 2018.[4]

Colgan has appeared in two separate depictions of the Chernobyl Disaster. The first being BBC's Surviving Disaster: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster from 2006 in which he appears as Leonid Toptunov, senior reactor control chief engineer of Reactor 4.[5] The second was HBO's 2019 mini-series Chernobyl in which he depicts Soviet Minister of Coal Industry Mikhail Shchadov.[6]

In 2020, Colgan starred as Rory Maguire in the third series of Nordic noir detective series Marcella.[7][8]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1997The EliminatorO'Brien
2002SundayGerard DonagheyTV film
2002This Is Not a Love SongSpike
2002SinnersEammonTV film
2004Wall of SilenceGerard DillonTV film
2005Song of SongsMale JournalistVoice
2005The Year London Blew Up: 1974O'ConnellTV film
2005AnimalsDanny HarkmanTV film
2006SoundproofConnorTV film
2010Lennon NakedDerek TaylorTV film
2013Good VibrationsDave
2014Heart of LightnessArnholm

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2001Rebel HeartLiam O'Toole2 episodes
2004The Long FirmCutterEpisode: "Jimmy's Story"
2004Surviving DisasterLeonid ToptunovEpisode: "Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster"
2007Silent WitnessGeorge Woods2 episodes
2008RawMal Martin6 episodes
2009OccupationWill Davies
2009The BillPaul BrewerEpisode: "Innocence Betrayed"
2010Holby CityMitch TurnerEpisode: "Taking Over"
2011DoctorsMinford BoyleEpisode: "Last Christmas"
2011New TricksLorcan "Buzz" McCaffreyEpisode: "Tiger Tiger"
2011Midsomer MurdersFather BehanEpisode: "A Sacred Trust"
2011Great ExpectationsAnxious ManEpisode 1.2
2012The Thick of ItMr. Chop / Declan3 episodes
2013The FallSheldon Schwartz2 episodes
2013What RemainsRichard Webb3 episodes
2014SuspectsLaurie WilkinsEpisode: "Alone"
2016Happy ValleyChaplainEpisode 2.1
2016The SecretPaul RamseyPart 4
2016Hooten & the LadyMonsignor FitzgeraldEpisode: "Rome"
2016My Mother and Other StrangersFather Nolan2 episodes
2017X CompanyHenriEpisode: "Promises"
2019ChernobylMikhail ShchadovEpisode: "Open Wide, O Earth"
2020MarcellaRory MaguireMain role
2020The CrownIRA Lieutenant"Gold Stick"
2022This EnglandGabriel MillandMain role

References

  1. ↑ "Charisma on the Stand: An Interview with Michael Colgan by Rada Djurica". Wild Violet. Retrieved 30 June 2009.
  2. ↑ "Case study: Michael Colgan, actor". Creative Choices. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2009.
  3. ↑ "John Murray acquires 'ambitious, genre-blending' British debut". Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "John Murray acquires Irish reimagining of Homer's Iliad". Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "Surviving Disaster" Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster (TV Episode 2006) - IMDb, retrieved 25 December 2019
  6. ↑ "Chernobyl" Open Wide, O Earth (TV Episode 2019) - IMDb, retrieved 25 December 2019
  7. ↑ "Marcella Season 3 Is Coming To ITV In Early 2021". www.tyla.com. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  8. ↑ Giannetti, Charlene (24 June 2020). "Anna Friel returns in Season Three of Marcella". Woman Around Town. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
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