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Matthew Macfadyen

Actor

Matthew Macfadyen

Born October 17, 1974 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK30 films

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.

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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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Pride & Prejudice posterFirst watchPride & Prejudice20058.1as Mr. DarcyA story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he…View film

Essential films

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Filmography

30 films as actor
  1. TBASéance on a Wet AfternoonBilly Savage
  2. 2025HollandFred Vandergroot
  3. 2024Deadpool & WolverineMr. Paradox
  4. 2022Operation MincemeatCharles Cholmondeley
  5. 2020The AssistantWilcock
  6. 2018The Nutcracker and the Four RealmsBenjamin Stahlbaum
  7. 2018The Current WarJ.P. Morgan
  8. 2016Churchill's SecretRandolph Churchill
  9. 2015The von Trapp Family: A Life of MusicGeorg von Trapp
  10. 2014Lost in KarastanEmil Forester
  11. 2014If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-DayNarrator (voice)
  12. 2012Anna KareninaOblonsky
  13. 2011The Three MusketeersAthos
  14. 2010Robin HoodSheriff of Nottingham
  15. 2009EnidHugh Pollock
  16. 2008Frost/NixonJohn Birt
  17. 2008IncendiaryTerrance
  18. 2007Death at a FuneralDaniel
  19. 2007Secret LifeCharlie
  20. 2007GrindhouseHatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
  21. 2007Mr. Bean's WeddingDaniel
  22. 2007MiddletownGabriel Hunter
  23. 2005Pride & PrejudiceMr. Darcy
  24. 2004In My Father's DenPaul Prior
  25. 2004The ReckoningKing’s Justice
  26. 2002The ProjectPaul Tibbenham
  27. 2001EnigmaCave
  28. 2000Maybe BabyNigel
  29. 1999WarriorsPte. Alan James
  30. 1998Wuthering HeightsHareton Earnshaw