Background
Morgan grew up in Glanamman, Carmarthenshire, the daughter of a headmaster and a drama teacher.
Morgan grew up in Glanamman, Carmarthenshire, the daughter of a headmaster and a drama teacher.
As a back up to her desired acting career, Morgan studied an undergraduate history course at Cardiff University in the 1960s, before training to be a stage actress.
She was brought up in the village of Llandyfaelog. She is best known for her work within the Welsh film and television industries and has been the recipient of three British Academy of Film and Television Arts Cymru awards. Since beginning her acting career in the 1970s, Morgan has appeared in a variety of television series, films and stage productions in both the English and Welsh languages.
Welsh Newspaper the Western Mail referred to her as "one of the most respected actors of her generation." Notable roles include her portrayal of Professor Margaret Edwards in A Mind to Kill between 1994 and 2002, and portraying Stella Craven in Mine All Mine, (2004) written by Russell T Davies.
Amongst Morgan’s other screen credits are a regular lead role in the British Broadcasting Corporation drama series Belonging, as well as a semi-regular role in Doctors and appearances in other United Kingdom television shows such as Midsomer Murders, Casualty, Coronation Street, Caerdydd, Pobol y Cwm and Alys. In 2002 Morgan appeared as Kath, a frustrated middle-aged houswewife in the Cardiff-shot comedy short Pleasure Pill.
She played the lead role of Martha in the 2008 S4C drama Martha, Jac a Sianco which she describes as a "culturally important film" that serves as "a strong and sensitive portrayal of agricultural life in Wales". Morgan first appeared in the episode "Something Borrowed" in the second series (2008), and returned for six episodes of the show"s fourth series, Torchwood: Miracle Day (2011).
Later in 2011, Morgan starred as Maggie Jones in Resistance, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Owen Sheers.
In September 2012 Morgan joined the cast of the fifth series of Hollyoaks Later, playing Nana Flo. She will also star in the upcoming United States drama series Da Vinci"s Demons as Sister Albina. In addition to her screen career, Morgan is also an established stage actress and dramatist who has also translated plays, including the Vagina Monologues, into the Welsh language.
Her stage acting roles include the National Theatre Wales production A Good night out in the Valleys which was first performed in 2010.
Of her performance, the Daily Mail wrote that "Sharon Morgan is a riot as a dotty old bird who listens to ear-splitting rock music on her earphones".