Michael Colgan is a Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland-born actor
and novelist.Colgan's birthname is Michael Hughes. He adopted his
stage name as there was already an actor named Michael Hughes
registered with the Actors' Equity Association.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 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.
and novelist.Colgan's birthname is Michael Hughes. He adopted his
stage name as there was already an actor named Michael Hughes
registered with the Actors' Equity Association.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 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.
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