Matthew Macfadyen

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

63

Gender

Male

Birthday

1974-10-17 (51 years old)

Place of Birth

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK

Matthew Macfadyen

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

  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

  • Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

  • The Kelly Clarkson Show

    The Kelly Clarkson Show

  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    Deadpool & Wolverine

  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • The Last Kingdom

    The Last Kingdom

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • Agatha Christie's Marple

    Agatha Christie's Marple

  • Succession

    Succession

  • Spooks

    Spooks

  • Pride & Prejudice

    Pride & Prejudice

  • Ripper Street

    Ripper Street

  • Robin Hood

    Robin Hood

  • The Pillars of the Earth

    The Pillars of the Earth

  • Holland

    Holland

  • The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

    The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

  • Enigma

    Enigma

  • Death at a Funeral

    Death at a Funeral

  • The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

  • Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

  • Ashes to Ashes

    Ashes to Ashes

  • Little Dorrit

    Little Dorrit

  • Operation Mincemeat

    Operation Mincemeat

  • Death by Lightning

    Death by Lightning

  • The Current War

    The Current War

  • Howards End

    Howards End

  • The Assistant

    The Assistant

  • The Project

    The Project

  • If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day

    If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day

  • In My Father's Den

    In My Father's Den

  • Criminal Justice

    Criminal Justice

  • Grindhouse

    Grindhouse

  • Quiz

    Quiz

  • The Enfield Haunting

    The Enfield Haunting

  • The Way We Live Now

    The Way We Live Now

  • Any Human Heart

    Any Human Heart

  • The Hungerford Massacre

    The Hungerford Massacre

  • Warriors

    Warriors

  • The Reckoning

    The Reckoning

  • Stonehouse

    Stonehouse

  • Perfect Strangers

    Perfect Strangers

  • Churchill's Secret

    Churchill's Secret

  • Ambassadors

    Ambassadors

  • Maybe Baby

    Maybe Baby

  • The Miniature Wife

    The Miniature Wife

  • Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine

    Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine

  • Revolution: New Art for a New World

    Revolution: New Art for a New World

  • Incendiary

    Incendiary

  • Middletown

    Middletown

  • Secret Life

    Secret Life

  • Enid

    Enid

  • Frost/Nixon

    Frost/Nixon

  • Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

    Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

  • Inside MI5: The Real Spooks

    Inside MI5: The Real Spooks

  • Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

  • The Project

    The Project

  • Warriors

    Warriors

  • Succession

    Succession

  • Mr. Bean's Wedding

    Mr. Bean's Wedding

  • The Blair Years

    The Blair Years

  • 24 Hours on Earth

    24 Hours on Earth

  • The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music

    The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music

  • Lost in Karastan

    Lost in Karastan