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Matthew Macfadyen

Born 1974-10-17
📍 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK

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).

Filmography 62

The Miniature Wife
as Les Littlejohn
2026
Death by Lightning
as Charles Guiteau
2025
Holland
as Fred Vandergroot
2025
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
as Self - Mr. Paradox
2024
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Mr. Paradox
2024
Stonehouse
as John Stonehouse
2023
Remembers…
as Self
2022
Operation Mincemeat
as Charles Cholmondeley
2022
Quiz
as Charles Ingram
2020
The Assistant
as Wilcock
2020
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Benjamin Stahlbaum
2018
Succession
as Tom Wambsgans
2018
The Current War
as J.P. Morgan
2018
Howards End
as Henry Wilcox
2017
Revolution: New Art for a New World
as Vladimir Lenin (voice)
2017
Churchill's Secret
as Randolph Churchill
2016
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
2015
Lost in Karastan
as Emil Forester
2014
24 Hours on Earth
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
Ambassadors
as POD
2013
Ripper Street
as Edmund Reid
2012
Anna Karenina
as Oblonsky
2012
The Three Musketeers
as Athos
2011
Any Human Heart
as Logan Mountstuart (Middle)
2010
The Pillars of the Earth
as Prior Phillip
2010
Robin Hood
as Sheriff of Nottingham
2010
Inside MI5: The Real Spooks
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2009
Enid
as Hugh Pollock
2009
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
2008
The Blair Years
as Narrator
2007
Death at a Funeral
as Daniel
2007
Grindhouse
as Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
2007
Mr. Bean's Wedding
as Daniel
2007
Middletown
as Gabriel Hunter
2007
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
as Narrator
2006
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Darcy
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Inspector Neele
2004
The Hungerford Massacre
as Himself (Narratior)
2004
In My Father's Den
as Paul Prior
2004
The Reckoning
as King’s Justice
2004
The Project
as Paul Tibbenham
2002
Spooks
as Tom Quinn
2002
The Way We Live Now
as Sir Felix Carbury
2001
Perfect Strangers
as Daniel
2001
Enigma
as Cave
2001
Maybe Baby
as Nigel
2000
Warriors
as Pte. Alan James
1999
Warriors
as Pte. Alan James
1999
Wuthering Heights
as Hareton Earnshaw
1998
HBO First Look
as Self
1992
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
Séance on a Wet Afternoon