Matthew Macfadyen

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1974-10-17

Place of Birth

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK

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