Matthew Macfadyen
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 22.521 |
Birthday | 1974-10-17 |
Place of Birth | Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK |
Also Known As | 매튜 맥퍼딘, Мэттью Макфэдиен, 馬修‧麥費狄恩, |
2004
In My Father's Den
7/93
Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-...
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In My Father's Den
2007
Death at a Funeral
6.892/1657
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an...
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Death at a Funeral
2001
Enigma
6.359/277
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
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Enigma
2005
Pride & Prejudice
8.08/7794
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbeari...
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Pride & Prejudice
2010
Robin Hood
6.391/4447
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Rober...
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Robin Hood
2008
Frost/Nixon
7.296/1133
For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit...
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Frost/Nixon
1999
Warriors
6.54/25
If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the...
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Warriors
2000
Maybe Baby
5.311/90
Sam and Lucie Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all: good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes, and an enthusiastic love life. T...
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Maybe Baby
2008
Incendiary
5.404/162
A woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.
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Incendiary
2006
Middletown
4.2/4
An overzealous priest returns to his home town and ends up battling against his brother for the heart of the locals.
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Middletown
2012
Anna Karenina
6.724/2213
In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vro...
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Anna Karenina
2007
Secret Life
6.6/7
Charlie is white, middle class and a child sex offender. And though he's served his sentence, by his own admission, he continues to pose a significant...
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Secret Life
2004
The Reckoning
6.3/99
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small tow...
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The Reckoning
2014
Lost in Karastan
4.6/8
Washed up British film director, Emil, who is invited by a nascent state to make a national Epic in an obscure Caucasus Republic ruled by an eccentric...
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Lost in Karastan
2007
Don't
7.127/71
In 2007, Wright directed a fake trailer insert for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse, called "Don't", it was a plotless trailer that...
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Don't
2002
The Project
0/0
The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of university to Westminster's corridors of power. Thei...
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The Project
2015
The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
6/16
Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of a well-known musical family, overcomes many obstacles to pursue her musical career and move to the United Sta...
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The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
2016
Churchill's Secret
6.3/26
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
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Churchill's Secret
2009
Enid
6.3/28
A poignant biography of one of the most successful and wildly-read writers of the 20th century. Her stories enthralled children everywhere but her per...
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Enid
2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
6.084/2077
When Clara’s mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she embarks on a journey to four secret realms—where she discovers her greatest strength could chang...
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
The Current War
6.695/1028
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
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The Current War
2014
If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
0/0
A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home bef...
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If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
1998
Wuthering Heights
6.8/27
Gipsy boy Heathcliffe is adopted by a god-fearing landowner in northern England and grows up as the soul-mate of the daughter, Cathy Earnshaw. When fa...
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Wuthering Heights
2017
Revolution: New Art for a New World
7.5/6
Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from...
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Revolution: New Art for a New World
2014
24 Hours on Earth
6.3/3
The changing position of the sun in the sky affects the behaviour of animals and plants across our planet. From the moment it rises, animals are wait...
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24 Hours on Earth
2020
The Assistant
6.3/430
A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the in...
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The Assistant
2007
Mr. Bean's Wedding
7.7/16
In this Comic Relief sketch, the lovable yet clumsy Mr. Bean finds himself at the wedding of an unsuspecting couple, leading to mishaps, mayhem, and a...
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Mr. Bean's Wedding
2022
Operation Mincemeat
6.5/627
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain w...
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Operation Mincemeat
2011
The Three Musketeers
5.803/2564
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent...
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The Three Musketeers
2007
Grindhouse
6.982/1631
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Taranti...
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Grindhouse
2004
The Hungerford Massacre
0/0
A re-enactment-documentary of the Murder-Suicide rampage by Michael Ryan, carried out on the 19th August 1987, which left 17 dead (including Ryan) and...
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The Hungerford Massacre
Holland, Michigan
0/0
A Midwestern schoolteacher begins to suspect that her husband’s cheating on her, so she enlists the help of a fellow teacher to catch him in the act,...
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Holland, Michigan
2024
Deadpool & Wolverine
0/0
A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. But when his homeworld faces...
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