Morgan Watkins

Acting

Morgan Watkins

Camden, London, England, UK

Morgan Watkins is an English film, television and stage actor. He studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London where he was awarded a BA in Acting degree in 2009. He has worked extensively in Theatre, TV and Film. His screen work includes Kingsman The Secret Service, The Hour, Chicken, Small City, The Limehouse Golem, Noughts and Crosses and A Very English Scandal. He has performed in plays at the National Theatre, Almeida Theatre and The Lyric Hammersmith where he played Len in a revival of Edward Bond’s Saved. He is represented in acting by Oliver Slinger at Independent Talent. He has taught lessons, courses and workshops at various institutions including Guildhall, University of East London, City Academy, LMA and RADA. He has worked in various roles with Synergy Theatre Group and teach acting workshops to young offenders and prisoners. In 2023 he founded The Base Creates with Oliver Bennett. They stage readings of fascinating plays from the western cannon with responses from renowned and exciting thinkers. They have launched The Agon, a new writing competition looking for fearless voices. They hosted the first competition in September 2024 and will launch it again in 2025. They also have a drop-in drama academy with the hope of beginning a drive back towards excellence and host a podcast discussing great ideas with fascinating dramatists and philosophers.

Acting credits

Kingsman: The Secret Service poster
7.6

The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

Kingsman: The Secret Service

2015

Napoleon poster
6.3

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

Napoleon

2023

The Limehouse Golem poster
6.2

A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.

The Limehouse Golem

2016

A Little Chaos poster
6.3

A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, they find themselves drawn to each other and are thrown into rivalries within the court of King Louis XIV.

A Little Chaos

2015

Suffragette poster
7.2

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

Suffragette

2015

Shadow Dancer poster
6.0

In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.

Shadow Dancer

2012

Agatha and the Midnight Murders poster
6.2

As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.

Agatha and the Midnight Murders

2020

Motorbird poster
8.0

When the daughter of a former beauty queen discovers an explosive love for stunt riding, she must shatter her family's expectations to pursue her bombastic dream.

Motorbird

2026

Wild Bill poster
6.8

Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.

Wild Bill

2011

Reawakening poster
6.3

John and Mary have lived with desolating grief and the agony of uncertainty for the past ten years. Their only child, Clare, ran away from home when she was fourteen and no trace of her whereabouts has ever been found. When Clare returns, now a young woman of twenty-four, Mary is overjoyed. But John comes to believe that Clare is not who she claims to be. As old tensions resurface, a gripping search for the truth unfolds.

Reawakening

2024

Profile poster
6.9

Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, a journalist creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.

Profile

2018

James poster
NR

Gloucestershire, England, 1796. A poor day labourer is offered work but must first let his son be used in a medical experiment. Based on the story of James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy used by Dr Edward Jenner to test the world's first smallpox vaccine.

James

2014

Sleepover poster
NR

9-year-old Marla is having her first sleepover with her best friend Lola. And even better – despite her Nans reservations, she is having it at her fun-loving Dad’s house. But amidst the freedom and play, she finds something that changes the course of this innocent sleepover and the dynamics of her relationship with her beloved but complicated Dad forever.

Sleepover

2025

A Violent Man poster
6.5

Steve Mackleson is a dangerous prisoner, incarcerated for double murder in a maximum security prison. We follow, as he navigates his struggle against redemption the system and his inner turmoil, when a young black gang member becomes his unlikely new cell mate and a daughter he has never met, finally requests to meet her estranged father, face to face.

A Violent Man

2022

Small City poster
5.0

A young street hustler from London and a drugs mule from Europe form an unlikely bond after a violent confrontation with a neighbourhood heavy.

Small City

2021

I'm Not in Love poster
NR

Rob, in his late thirties, needs to decide if he wants to have a baby with his girlfriend Marta, but worries that he’s fallen out of love with her. He asks his seemingly unhappily married friends for advice, who all tell him that he won’t be able to do better so he might as well marry her. But when Rob eventually does propose to Marta, things don't go exactly to plan.

I'm Not in Love

2021

Jurassic poster
NR

An uplifting and tempestuous film about jealousy, love and disappointment where an unusual friendship blossoms under surreal circumstances.

Jurassic

2014

The Hooligan Factory poster
5.4

Danny wants something more. Expelled from school and living in his grandfathers flat, he longs to live up to the image of his estranged father Danny Senior

The Hooligan Factory

2014

Bored poster
NR

London 2017, everyone’s over-stimulated, under-energized and trying to love, laugh and live as hard as the next Instagrammer. Jamie and Eve are mates who’ve always shared everything and after getting high at a party, they share everything. In the sober light of day will things ever be the same again?

Bored

2019

Doctor Jekyll poster
4.6

Recluse Dr. Nina Jekyll befriends with her newly hired help, Rob. They must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.

Doctor Jekyll

2023

Scottish Mussel poster
5.9

Ritchie is a Glaswegian chancer with low hopes and no prospects. Disillusioned with city life, he goes undercover at a Highland conservation centre to make his fortune as an illegal pearl fisher with the help of his two hapless and accident prone mates, Danny and Fraser. Here he meets Beth, a pretty English conservationist passionate about saving endangered mussels from the clutches of pearl thieves in the Scottish Highlands. Falling for her instantly, Ritchie must beat off competition in the form of Highland Ranger Ethan, a smooth talking American Adonis convinced that Beth can't resist his charms forever. After the success of pearl fishing attracts the unwanted attentions of old school Glaswegian mobster Gavin and his work at the centre leads him to question his true motivations, Ritchie must risk life and limb to save the Highlands from ecological disaster and win Beth's heart...

Scottish Mussel

2015

Flinch poster
NR

Paula, her son Carl, and his estranged partner Emily, join family members to mark the birthday of their missing son. As Carl fights to convince Emily to come home, new information comes to light about the missing boy, the implications of which are worse than anyone could have imagined.

Flinch

2014

No artwork available
NR

The story of the WWI poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves, using their diaries and letters to tell the inside story of the war in their own words.

The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets

2016

Chicken poster
5.5

RICHARD, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, POLLY, needs to keep moving. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, and the electricity supply to their caravan is cut, their already precarious living conditions get even worse. Then a chance meeting with the new landowner's daughter, 17 year old ANNABEL (Yasmin Paige), leaves RICHARD besotted; whilst POLLY befriends the guys who run a seedy traveling fair. Richards optimistic view on life becomes increasingly difficult to maintain as Polly's abusive behavior worsens, family secrets are revealed, and he is torn between loyalty to his brother and his first true friend in ANNABEL. For better or worse, Richards life is about to change forever.

Chicken

2016

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