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Michael Colgan is a Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland-born actor. Born as Michael Hughes, he was educated at Saint Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he read English. After studying at l'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, he now lives 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... MORE

Michael Colgan is a Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland-born actor. Born as Michael Hughes, he was educated at Saint Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he read English. After studying at l'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, he now lives 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 a number of television productions, including Rebel Heart and Sunday (2002) for the BBC. He 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. As of May 2009 he was appearing at the Young Vic in Rupert Goold's critically acclaimed LESS