Matthew Macfadyen
Acting
- Born:
- 1974-10-17
- Place of birth:
- Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
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).
Known For
Filmography
The Miniature Wife
Behind the Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions
Death by Lightning
Holland
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
Deadpool & Wolverine
Stonehouse
Remembers…
Operation Mincemeat
Quiz
The Assistant
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Succession
The Current War
Howards End
Revolution: New Art for a New World
Churchill's Secret
The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
The Last Kingdom
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Enfield Haunting
Lost in Karastan
If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
24 Hours on Earth
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Ambassadors
Ripper Street
Anna Karenina
The Three Musketeers
Any Human Heart
The Pillars of the Earth
Robin Hood
Inside MI5: The Real Spooks
Enid
Little Dorrit
Frost/Nixon
Criminal Justice
Ashes to Ashes
Incendiary
The Blair Years
Death at a Funeral
Secret Life
Grindhouse
Mr. Bean's Wedding
Middletown
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
Pride & Prejudice
Agatha Christie's Marple
The Hungerford Massacre
In My Father's Den
The Reckoning
The Project
The Project
Spooks
The Way We Live Now
Perfect Strangers
Enigma
Maybe Baby