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Name
Matthew Goode

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1978-04-03 (48 years old)

Place of Birth
Exeter, Devon, England, UK

Biography

Matthew William Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's television film Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty (2004), for which he received a nomination at the Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male. He then appeared in a string of supporting roles in films, such as Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), the romantic comedy Imagine Me and You (2006), and the period drama Copying Beethoven (2006). He earned praise for his performances as Charles Ryder in the 2008 film adaptation of the novel Brideshead Revisited and as Ozymandias in the superhero film Watchmen (2009). He then starred in the romantic comedy Leap Year (2010) and the Australian drama Burning Man (2011), the latter earning him nominations for Best Actor at both the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards and the AACTA Awards.

His other film roles include The Lookout (2007), A Single Man (2009), Cemetery Junction (2010), Stoker (2013), Belle (2013), The Imitation Game (2014) and Self/less (2015). Goode has also appeared in television series, including Henry Talbot in the historical drama Downton Abbey, Finley "Finn" Polmar in the legal drama The Good Wife, and a music journalist in the drama Dancing on the Edge. In 2017, Goode portrayed Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in the second season of the biographical drama series The Crown, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. From 2018–2022, Goode starred in the fantasy romance series, A Discovery of Witches. In 2022, he starred as famed Paramount studio head Robert Evans in The Offer, a miniseries about the making of the classic 1972 gangster film The Godfather.

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Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2006 Imagine Me & You as Heck
2006 Copying Beethoven as Martin Bauer
2007 The Lookout as Gary Spargo
2010 Leap Year as Declan
2008 Brideshead Revisited as Charles Ryder
2009 Watchmen as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
2009 A Single Man as Jim
2010 Cemetery Junction as Mike Ramsay
2005 My Family and Other Animals as Larry Durrell
2022 The House as Raymond (voice)
2011 Burning Man as Tom
2013 Stoker as Charlie Stoker
2013 Belle as Captain Sir John Lindsay
2015 Self/less as Albright
2015 Pressure as Mitchell
2005 Match Point as Tom Hewett
2003 South from Granada as Gerald Brenan
2014 The Imitation Game as Hugh Alexander
2023 Freud's Last Session as C. S. Lewis
2002 Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister as Casper
2024 Abigail as Father
2016 Allied as Guy Sangster
2017 The Sense of an Ending as Mr. Joe Hunt
2017 The Hatton Garden Job as XXX
2018 The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society as Sidney Stark
2018 Birthmarked as Ben
2019 Official Secrets as Peter Beaumont
2020 Four Kids and It as David
2005 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia as Ali Baba
2021 The King's Man as Morton
2021 Silent Night as Simon
2022 Medieval as král Zikmund
2021 The Duke as Jeremy Hutchinson
2019 Downton Abbey as Henry Talbot
2021 The Colour Room as Colley Shorter
2004 Chasing Liberty as Ben Calder
2025 Spiked as Walter / Sir Balderdash (voice)
Soon Fortitude as Thomas Argyll “TAR” Robertson
Soon The Custom of the Country
Soon Hal

1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 1 episode )
2022 The Offer ( 10 episodes ) as Robert Evans
1993 GMTV ( 1 episode ) as Self
2012 Birdsong ( 2 episodes ) as Captain Gray
2013 Dancing on the Edge ( 5 episodes ) as Stanley Mitchell
2013 Death Comes to Pemberley ( 3 episodes ) as George Wickham
2009 The Good Wife ( 30 episodes ) as Finn Polmar
2010 Downton Abbey ( 5 episodes ) as Henry Talbot
2012 The Poison Tree ( 2 episodes ) as Rex Clarke
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self
2016 The Crown ( 3 episodes ) as Tony Armstrong-Jones
2018 Ordeal by Innocence ( 3 episodes ) as Philip Durrant
2002 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries ( 1 episode ) as Peter Lynley
2004 Agatha Christie's Marple ( 1 episode ) as Patrick Simmons
2018 A Discovery of Witches ( 25 episodes ) as Matthew Clairmont
2025 Dept. Q ( 9 episodes ) as DCI Carl Morck
Soon Roadside Picnic ( 1 episode ) as Redrick Schuhart
2006 The One Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2016 Roots ( 2 episodes ) as William Waller
2004 He Knew He Was Right ( 3 episodes ) as Brooke Burgess

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