Matthew Goode
Born: 1978-04-03 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Matthew William Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's television film Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty (2004), for which he received a nomination at the Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male. He then appeared in a string of supporting roles in films, such as Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), the romantic comedy Imagine Me and You (2006), and the period drama Copying Beethoven (2006). He earned praise for his performances as Charles Ryder in the 2008 film adaptation of the novel Brideshead Revisited and as Ozymandias in the superhero film Watchmen (2009). He then starred in the romantic comedy Leap Year (2010) and the Australian drama Burning Man (2011), the latter earning him nominations for Best Actor at both the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards and the AACTA Awards. His other 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). Goode has also appeared in television series, including Henry Talbot in the historical drama Downton Abbey, Finley "Finn" Polmar in the legal drama The Good Wife, and a music journalist in the drama Dancing on the Edge. In 2017, Goode portrayed Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in the second season of the biographical drama series The Crown, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. From 2018–2022, Goode starred in the fantasy romance series, A Discovery of Witches. In 2022, he starred as famed Paramount studio head Robert Evans in The Offer, a miniseries about the making of the classic 1972 gangster film The Godfather. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Matthew Goode, licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors is on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2024
- Abigail as Father
2023
- Freud's Last Session as C. S. Lewis
2021
- The King's Man as Morton
- Silent Night as Simon
- The Duke as Jeremy Hutchinson
- The Colour Room as Colley Shorter
2020
- Four Kids and It as David
2019
- Downton Abbey as Henry Talbot
- Official Secrets as Peter Beaumont
2018
- A Discovery of Witches as Matthew Clairmont
- Ordeal by Innocence as Philip Durrant
- The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society as Sidney Stark
- Birthmarked as Ben
2017
- The Sense of an Ending as Mr. Joe Hunt
- The Hatton Garden Job as XXX
2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- The Imitation Game as Hugh Alexander
2013
- Stoker as Charlie Stoker
- Belle as Captain Sir John Lindsay
- Death Comes to Pemberley as George Wickham
- Dancing on the Edge as Stanley Mitchell
2012
- Birdsong as Captain Gray
- The Poison Tree as Rex Clarke
2011
- Burning Man as Tom
2010
- Downton Abbey as Henry Talbot
- Leap Year as Declan
- Cemetery Junction as Mike Ramsay
2009
- The Good Wife as Finn Polmar
- Watchmen as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
- A Single Man as Jim
2008
- Brideshead Revisited as Charles Ryder
2007
- The Lookout as Gary Spargo
2006
- The One Show as Self
- Imagine Me & You as Heck
- Copying Beethoven as Martin Bauer
2005
- Match Point as Tom Hewett
- My Family and Other Animals as Larry Durrell
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia as Ali Baba
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Patrick Simmons
- Chasing Liberty as Ben Calder
- He Knew He Was Right as Brooke Burgess
2003
- South from Granada as Gerald Brenan
2002
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Peter Lynley
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister as Casper
1993
- GMTV as Self