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).
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- 2024 · Deadpool & Wolverine as Mr. Paradox
- 2023 · Stonehouse as John Stonehouse
- 2022 · Operation Mincemeat as Charles Cholmondeley
- 2020 · Quiz as Charles Ingram
- 2020 · The Assistant as Wilcock
- 2018 · The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as Benjamin Stahlbaum
- 2018 · Succession as Tom Wambsgans
- 2018 · The Current War as J.P. Morgan
- 2017 · Howards End as Henry Wilcox
- 2017 · Revolution: New Art for a New World as Vladimir Lenin (voice)
- 2016 · Churchill's Secret as Randolph Churchill
- 2015 · The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music as Georg von Trapp
- 2015 · The Last Kingdom as Lord Uhtred
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · The Enfield Haunting as Guy Lyon Playfair
- 2014 · Lost in Karastan as Emil Forester
- 2014 · If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day as Narrator (voice)
- 2014 · 24 Hours on Earth as Narrator (voice)
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · Ambassadors as POD
- 2012 · Ripper Street as Edmund Reid
- 2012 · Anna Karenina as Oblonsky
- 2011 · The Three Musketeers as Athos
- 2010 · Any Human Heart as Logan Mountstuart
- 2010 · The Pillars of the Earth as Prior Phillip
- 2010 · Robin Hood as Sheriff of Nottingham
- 2009 · Enid as Hugh Pollock
- 2008 · Little Dorrit as Arthur Clennam
- 2008 · Frost/Nixon as John Birt
- 2008 · Criminal Justice as Joe Miller
- 2008 · Ashes to Ashes as Gil Hollis
- 2008 · Incendiary as Terrance
- 2007 · Death at a Funeral as Daniel
- 2007 · Secret Life as Charlie
- 2007 · Grindhouse as Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
- 2007 · Don't as
- 2007 · Mr. Bean's Wedding as Daniel
- 2006 · Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial as Narrator
- 2006 · Middletown as
- 2005 · Pride & Prejudice as Fitzwilliam Darcy
- 2004 · The Hungerford Massacre as Himself (Narratior)
- 2004 · In My Father's Den as Paul Prior
- 2004 · The Reckoning as King’s Justice
- 2002 · The Project as Paul Tibbenham
- 2002 · The Project as Paul Tibbenham
- 2002 · Spooks as Tom Quinn
- 2001 · The Way We Live Now as Sir Felix Carbury
- 2001 · Perfect Strangers as Daniel
- 2001 · Enigma as Cave
- 2000 · Maybe Baby as Nigel
- 1999 · Warriors as Pte. Alan James
- 1999 · Warriors as Pte. Alan James
- 1998 · Wuthering Heights as Hareton Earnshaw
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
- 2024 · Holland, Michigan as Fred Vandergroot
- 2024 · Death by Lightning as Charles Guiteau
- 2024 · The Miniature Wife as Les