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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- Born:
- Oct 17, 1974 In Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 43
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Wuthering Heights 1998-09-11
- Latest Project:
- Movie Holland, Michigan 2025
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Holland, Michigan | Fred Vandergroot | 2025 |
| Movie | Operation Mincemeat | Charles Cholmondeley | 2022-04-01 |
| Movie | The Assistant | Wilcock | 2020-01-31 |
| Movie | The Current War | J.P. Morgan | 2018-02-01 |
| Movie | The Nutcracker and the Four Realms | Benjamin Stahlbaum | 2018-10-26 |
| Series | Succession | Tom Wambsgans | 2018-06-03 |
| Movie | Churchill's Secret | Randolph Churchill | 2016-02-29 |
| Series | The Enfield Haunting | Guy Lyon Playfair | 2015-05-03 |
| Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
| Movie | The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music | Georg von Trapp | 2015-11-12 |
| Series | The Last Kingdom | Lord Uhtred | 2015-10-10 |
| Series | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | 2014-02-17 |
| Movie | 24 Hours on Earth | Narrator (voice) | 2014-04-21 |
| Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
| Movie | If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day | Narrator (voice) | 2014-06-01 |
| Movie | Lost in Karastan | Emil Forester | 2014-08-23 |
| Movie | Ambassadors | POD | 2013-10-23 |
| Movie | Anna Karenina | Oblonsky | 2012-09-06 |
| Movie | The Three Musketeers | Athos | 2011-08-31 |
| Movie | Any Human Heart | Logan Mountstuart (Middle) | 2010-06-30 |
| Movie | Robin Hood | Sheriff of Nottingham | 2010-05-12 |
| Series | The Pillars of the Earth | Prior Phillip | 2010-07-23 |
| Movie | Enid | Hugh Pollock | 2009-11-16 |
| Series | Ashes to Ashes | Gil Hollis | 2008-02-07 |
| Movie | Incendiary | Terrance | 2008-01-20 |
| Series | Criminal Justice | Joe Miller | 2008-06-30 |
| Movie | Frost/Nixon | John Birt | 2008-10-15 |
| Series | Little Dorrit | Arthur Clennam | 2008-10-26 |
| Movie | Grindhouse | Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited) | 2007-04-06 |
| Movie | Secret Life | Charlie | 2007-04-19 |
| Movie | Middletown | Unknown | 2006-04-28 |
| Series | Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial | Narrator | 2006-09-25 |
| Movie | Pride & Prejudice | Fitzwilliam Darcy | 2005-09-16 |
| Movie | The Reckoning | King’s Justice | 2004-02-26 |
| Movie | In My Father's Den | Paul Prior | 2004-06-11 |
| Series | Spooks | Tom Quinn | 2002-05-13 |
| Movie | The Project | Paul Tibbenham | 2002-11-10 |
| Series | Perfect Strangers | Daniel | 2001-05-10 |
| Movie | Enigma | Cave | 2001-01-22 |
| Series | The Way We Live Now | Sir Felix Carbury | 2001-11-11 |
| Movie | Maybe Baby | Nigel | 2000-06-02 |
| Movie | Warriors | Pte. Alan James | 1999-11-29 |
| Movie | Wuthering Heights | Hareton Earnshaw | 1998-09-11 |