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Matthew Goode
Actor
Born April 3, 1978 (46 years)
Matthew Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's TV film feature Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty (2004), for which he received a nomination at Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male. He then appeared in a string of supporting roles in films like Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), the German-British romantic comedy Imagine Me and You (2006), and the period drama Copying Beethoven (2006). He won praise for his performance as Charles Ryder in Julian Jarrold's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (2008), and as Ozymandias in the American neo-noir superhero film Watchmen (2009), based on the comics by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. He then starred in romantic comedy Leap Year (2010) and Australian drama Burning Man (2011), the latter earning him a nomination for Best Actor at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards.
Other notable 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). As well as appearing in films, Goode has appeared in numerous television shows. His most notable television roles include Henry Talbot in the final season of historical drama Downton Abbey, and Finley "Finn" Polmar in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife. He also had a lead role in the critically acclaimed British mini-serial Dancing on the Edge, as music journalist Stanley Mitchell. In 2017, Goode portrayed Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in the Netflix biographical drama series The Crown, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. As of 2018, he stars in Sky One's fantasy-romance series, A Discovery of Witches, as Professor Matthew Clairmont.
Other notable 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). As well as appearing in films, Goode has appeared in numerous television shows. His most notable television roles include Henry Talbot in the final season of historical drama Downton Abbey, and Finley "Finn" Polmar in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife. He also had a lead role in the critically acclaimed British mini-serial Dancing on the Edge, as music journalist Stanley Mitchell. In 2017, Goode portrayed Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in the Netflix biographical drama series The Crown, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. As of 2018, he stars in Sky One's fantasy-romance series, A Discovery of Witches, as Professor Matthew Clairmont.
Known For
Filmography
| 2024 | Abigail · as Father |
| 2023 | Freud's Last Session · as C. S. Lewis |
| 2022 | Medieval · as Král Zikmund |
| 2022 | The Offer (TV Series) · as Robert Evans |
| 2022 | The House · as Raymond (voice) |
| 2021 | The King's Man · as Morton |
| 2021 | Silent Night · as Simon |
| 2021 | The Colour Room · as Colley Shorter |
| 2020 | The Duke · as Jeremy Hutchinson |
| 2020 | Four Kids and It · as David |
| 2019 | Downton Abbey · as Henry Talbot |
| 2019 | Official Secrets · as Peter Beaumont |
| 2018 | A Discovery of Witches (TV Series) · as Matthew Clairmont |
| 2018 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society · as Sidney Stark |
| 2018 | Ordeal by Innocence (TV Series) · as Philip Durrant |
| 2018 | Birthmarked · as Ben |
| 2017 | The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales · as Wolf |
| 2017 | The Hatton Garden Job · as Xxx |
| 2017 | The Sense of an Ending · as Mr. Joe Hunt |
| 2016 | Allied · as Guy Sangster |
| 2016 | The Crown (TV Series) · as Tony Armstrong-Jones |
| 2016 | Roots (2016) (TV Series) · as Dr. William Waller |
| 2015 | Self/less · as Albright |
| 2015 | |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game · as Hugh Alexander |
| 2014 | Belle: The Story · as Captain Sir John Lindsay |
| 2013 | Death Comes to Pemberley (TV Series) · as George Wickham |
| 2013 | Belle · as Captain Sir John Lindsay |
| 2013 | Stoker · as Charlie Stoker |
| 2013 | Dancing on the Edge (TV Series) · as Stanley Mitchell |
| 2013 | The Vatican · as Bernd Koch |
| 2012 | The Poison Tree (TV Series) · as Rex Clarke |
| 2012 | Birdsong (TV Series) · as Captain Gray |
| 2011 | Burning Man · as Tom |
| 2010 | Downton Abbey (TV Series) · as Henry Talbot |
| 2010 | Cemetery Junction · as Mike Ramsay |
| 2010 | Leap Year · as Declan |
| 2009 | A Single Man · as Jim |
| 2009 | The Good Wife (TV Series) · as Finn Polmar |
| 2009 | Watchmen · as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias |
| 2008 | Brideshead Revisited · as Charles Ryder |
| 2007 | The Lookout · as Gary Spargo |
| 2006 | Copying Beethoven · as Martin Bauer |
| 2005 | My Family and Other Animals · as Larry Durrell |
| 2005 | Match Point · as Tom Hewett |
| 2005 | Imagine Me & You · as Heck |
| 2005 | |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple (TV Series) · as Patrick Simmons |
| 2004 | He Knew He Was Right (TV Series) · as Brooke Burgess |
| 2004 | Chasing Liberty · as Ben Calder |
| 2003 | South from Granada · as Gerald Brenan |
| 2003 | Bounty Hamster (TV Series) · as Various |
| 2002 | Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister · as Casper |
| 2001 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (TV Series) · as Peter Lynley |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) |