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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1974-10-17 (50 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

Acting

2025

Holland as Fred Vandergroot

2024

2023

Stonehouse as John Stonehouse

2022

Operation Mincemeat as Charles Cholmondeley

2020

The Assistant as Wilcock
Quiz as Charles Ingram

2019

2018

The Current War as J.P. Morgan
Succession as Tom Wambsgans

2017

Revolution: New Art for a New World as Vladimir Lenin (voice)
Howards End as Henry Wilcox

2016

Churchill's Secret as Randolph Churchill

2015

2014

2013

2012

Anna Karenina as Oblonsky
Ripper Street as Edmund Reid

2011

2010

Robin Hood as Sheriff of Nottingham
The Pillars of the Earth as Prior Phillip
Any Human Heart as Logan Mountstuart

2009

Enid as Hugh Pollock
Inside MI5: The Real Spooks as Self - Narrator (voice)

2008

Frost/Nixon as John Birt
Incendiary as Terrance
Ashes to Ashes as Gil Hollis
Criminal Justice as Joe Miller
Little Dorrit as Arthur Clennam

2007

Middletown as Gabriel Hunter
Secret Life as Charlie
Grindhouse as Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
The Blair Years as Narrator

2006

2005

Pride & Prejudice as Fitzwilliam Darcy

2004

In My Father's Den as Paul Prior
The Hungerford Massacre as Himself (Narratior)
The Reckoning as King’s Justice
Agatha Christie's Marple as Inspector Neele

2002

The Project as Paul Tibbenham
Spooks as Tom Quinn
The Project as Paul Tibbenham

2001

Enigma as Cave
The Way We Live Now as Sir Felix Carbury

2000

Maybe Baby as Nigel

1999

Warriors as Pte. Alan James
Warriors as Pte. Alan James

1998

Wuthering Heights as Hareton Earnshaw

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner

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Death by Lightning as Charles Guiteau

Production

2023

Stonehouse as Executive Producer

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The Miniature Wife as Executive Producer