Matthew Goode
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 3, 1978 (age 48)
- Birthplace
- Exeter, Devon, England, UK
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.
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Filmography
Fortitude
Movie · as Thomas Argyll “TAR” Robertson
The Custom of the Country
Movie
Hal
Movie
Roadside Picnic
TV · as Redrick Schuhart · 1 ep
Spiked
Movie · as Walter / Sir Balderdash (voice)
Dept. Q
TV · as DCI Carl Morck · 10 eps
Abigail
Movie · as Father
Freud's Last Session
Movie · as C. S. Lewis
The House
Movie · as Raymond (voice)
Medieval
Movie · as král Zikmund
The Offer
TV · as Robert Evans · 10 eps
The King's Man
Movie · as Morton
Silent Night
Movie · as Simon
The Duke
Movie · as Jeremy Hutchinson
The Colour Room
Movie · as Colley Shorter
Four Kids and It
Movie · as David
Official Secrets
Movie · as Peter Beaumont
Downton Abbey
Movie · as Henry Talbot
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Movie · as Sidney Stark
Birthmarked
Movie · as Ben
Ordeal by Innocence
TV · as Philip Durrant · 3 eps
A Discovery of Witches
TV · as Matthew Clairmont · 25 eps
The Sense of an Ending
Movie · as Mr. Joe Hunt
The Hatton Garden Job
Movie · as XXX
Allied
Movie · as Guy Sangster
The Crown
TV · as Tony Armstrong-Jones · 3 eps
Roots
TV · as William Waller · 2 eps
Self/less
Movie · as Albright
Pressure
Movie · as Mitchell
The Imitation Game
Movie · as Hugh Alexander
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Stoker
Movie · as Charlie Stoker
Belle
Movie · as Captain Sir John Lindsay
Dancing on the Edge
TV · as Stanley Mitchell · 5 eps
Death Comes to Pemberley
TV · as George Wickham · 3 eps
Birdsong
TV · as Captain Gray · 2 eps
The Poison Tree
TV · as Rex Clarke · 2 eps
Burning Man
Movie · as Tom
Leap Year
Movie · as Declan
Cemetery Junction
Movie · as Mike Ramsay
Downton Abbey
TV · as Henry Talbot · 5 eps
Watchmen
Movie · as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
A Single Man
Movie · as Jim
The Good Wife
TV · as Finn Polmar · 30 eps
Brideshead Revisited
Movie · as Charles Ryder
The Lookout
Movie · as Gary Spargo
Imagine Me & You
Movie · as Heck
Copying Beethoven
Movie · as Martin Bauer
The One Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
My Family and Other Animals
Movie · as Larry Durrell
Match Point
Movie · as Tom Hewett
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia
Movie · as Ali Baba
Chasing Liberty
Movie · as Ben Calder
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV · as Patrick Simmons · 1 ep
He Knew He Was Right
TV · as Brooke Burgess · 3 eps
South from Granada
Movie · as Gerald Brenan
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Movie · as Casper
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
TV · as Peter Lynley · 1 ep
GMTV
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · 1 ep