
Matthew Macfadyen
Biography
David Matthew Macfadyen (born 17 October 1974) is an English actor. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he gained prominence for his role as Mr. Darcy in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005). He starred as Tom Wambsgans in the HBO drama series Succession (2018–2023), for which he has received two Primetime Emmy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Macfadyen is also known for his roles in films such as Death at a Funeral (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Anna Karenina (2012), The Assistant (2019), and Operation Mincemeat (2021). He made his television debut in 1998 as Hareton Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights. He portrayed Tom Quinn in the BBC One spy series Spooks (2002–04, 2011), and Inspector Edmund Reid in the BBC mystery series Ripper Street (2012–2016). He also starred as Henry Wilcox in Kenneth Lonergan's miniseries Howards End and Charles Ingram in the Stephen Frears' limited series Quiz (2020).
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Acting History
2025
Death by Lightning as Charles Guiteau
2025Holland as Fred Vandergroot
2024Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine as Self - Mr. Paradox
2024Deadpool & Wolverine as Mr. Paradox
2023Stonehouse as John Stonehouse
2022Operation Mincemeat as Charles Cholmondeley
2020Quiz as Charles Ingram
2020The Assistant as Wilcock
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2018The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as Benjamin Stahlbaum
2018Succession as Tom Wambsgans
2018The Current War as J.P. Morgan
2017Howards End as Henry Wilcox
2017Revolution: New Art for a New World as Vladimir Lenin (voice)
2016Churchill's Secret as Randolph Churchill
2015The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music as Georg von Trapp
2015The Last Kingdom as Lord Uhtred
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015The Enfield Haunting as Guy Lyon Playfair
2014Lost in Karastan as Emil Forester
2014If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day as Narrator (voice)
201424 Hours on Earth as Self - Narrator (voice)
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2013Ambassadors as POD
2012Ripper Street as Edmund Reid
2012Anna Karenina as Oblonsky
2011The Three Musketeers as Athos
2010Any Human Heart as Logan Mountstuart
2010The Pillars of the Earth as Prior Phillip
2010Robin Hood as Sheriff of Nottingham
2009Inside MI5: The Real Spooks as Self - Narrator (voice)
2009Enid as Hugh Pollock
2008Little Dorrit as Arthur Clennam
2008Frost/Nixon as John Birt
2008Criminal Justice as Joe Miller
2008Ashes to Ashes as Gil Hollis
2008Incendiary as Terrance
2007The Blair Years as Narrator
2007Death at a Funeral as Daniel
2007Secret Life as Charlie
2007Grindhouse as Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
2007Mr. Bean's Wedding as Daniel
2007Middletown as Gabriel Hunter
2006Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial as Narrator
2005Pride & Prejudice as Mr. Darcy
2004Agatha Christie's Marple as Inspector Neele
2004The Hungerford Massacre as Himself (Narratior)
2004In My Father's Den as Paul Prior
2004The Reckoning as King’s Justice
2002The Project as Paul Tibbenham
2002The Project as Paul Tibbenham
2002Spooks as Tom Quinn
2001The Way We Live Now as Sir Felix Carbury
2001Perfect Strangers as Daniel
2001Enigma as Cave
2000Maybe Baby as Nigel
1999Warriors as Pte. Alan James
1999Warriors as Pte. Alan James
1998Wuthering Heights as Hareton Earnshaw
1992HBO First Look as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
—The Miniature Wife as Les
—Legacy of Spies as George Smiley









