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Matthew Macfadyen

Name in Native Language: "David Matthew Macfadyen" (English/EN)
Actor | * 10/17/1974 (49) | Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England (United Kingdom (UK))
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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 rose to international fame for his role as Tom Wambsgans in the HBO drama series Succession (2018–2023), for which he received two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe 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 Height..."> ()
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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 currently stars as Tom Wambsgans in the HBO drama series Succession (2018–present), for which he has received a Primetime Emmy Award, 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).

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the Fren ...

The Three Musketeers

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2011 | 2.9/5 | 1h 50min
Adventure, Action, Thriller
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A myriad of outrageous calamities befall an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets, when its patriarch dies an unexpected death. Soon, every complication imaginable befal ...

Death at a Funeral

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2007 | 3.4/5 | 1h 30min
Comedy, Drama
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A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their h ...

Pride & Prejudice

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2005 | 4.0/5 | 2h 7min
Drama, Romance / Love
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Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control. ...

Succession

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2018 | 4.1/5
Drama, Comedy
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Awards & Nominations for Matthew Macfadyen

2x British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film British Academy Television Award for Best Actor Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Movies with Matthew Macfadyen as Actor(34)

2024 Deadpool 3
2023 Holland, Michigan
as Charles Cholmondeley2022 Operation Mincemeat
as Wilcock2020 The Assistant
as J.P. Morgan2018 The Current War
as Benjamin Stahlbaum2018 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Vladimir Lenin (voice)2017 Revolution: New Art for a New World
as Randolph Churchill2016 Churchill's Secret
as Georg von Trapp2015 The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
as Narrator (voice)2014 24 Hours on Earth
as Emil Forester2014 Lost in Karastan
as Narrator (voice)2014 If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
as Stiva Oblonsky2012 Anna Karenina
as Athos2011 The Three Musketeers
as Logan Mountstuart (Middle)2010 Any Human Heart
as Sheriff of Nottingham2010 Robin Hood
as Hugh Pollock2009 Enid
as Terrance2008 Incendiary
as John Birt2008 Frost/Nixon
as Charlie2007 Secret Life
as Daniel2007 Mr. Bean's Wedding
2007 Don't
as Daniel2007 Death at a Funeral
as Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)2007 Grindhouse
2006 Middletown
as Fitzwilliam Darcy2005 Pride & Prejudice
as Himself (Narratior)2004 The Hungerford Massacre
as King’s Justice2004 The Reckoning
as Paul Prior2004 In My Father's Den
as Paul Tibbenham2002 The Project
as Cave2001 Enigma
as Nigel2000 Maybe Baby
as Pte. Alan James1999 Warriors
as Hareton Earnshaw1998 Wuthering Heights

TV Shows/Series with Matthew Macfadyen as Actor(14)

as John Stonehouse2023 Stonehouse
as Charles Ingram2020 Quiz
as Tom Wambsgans2018 Succession
as Lord Uhtred2015 The Last Kingdom
as himself2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as himself2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
as POD2013 Ambassadors
as Edmund Reid2012 Ripper Street
as Gil Hollis2008 Ashes to Ashes
as Arthur Clennam2008 Little Dorrit
as Narrator2006 Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
as Tom Quinn2002 Spooks
as Daniel2001 Perfect Strangers
as Sir Felix Carbury2001 The Way We Live Now

TV Shows/Series with Matthew Macfadyen as Crew(1)

Production/Executive Producer2023 Stonehouse

Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Thursday, 10/17 1974 (October) in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 49 years + 186 days)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Oakham School, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Spouses (current/former): Keeley Hawes
Children: Maggie Macfadyen, Ralph Macfadyen
Father: Martin Macfadyen
Mother: Meinir Macfadyen
Other names for Matthew Macfadyen (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"매튜 맥퍼딘"
"Мэттью Макфэдиен"
Matthew Macfadyen frequently works together with these people:
Robert Rodriguez (7x, Crew)
Quentin Tarantino (6x, Actor)
Tom Hollander (5x, Actor)
Andy Serkis (4x, Actor)
John Lithgow (4x, Actor)
Edgar Wright (4x, Crew)
Keeley Hawes (4x, Actress)
Jina Jay (4x, Crew)
Anton Lesser (4x, Actor)
Gemma Richards (4x, Crew)
Kitty Green (4x, Crew)
Jesse Armstrong (4x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1734, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/05/2024