Matthew Macfadyen
Birthday: 1974-10-17
Place of Birth: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
Biography: 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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In My Father's Den
War journalist Paul Prior returns to his New Zealand hometown after his father’s death, rekindling s...
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Death at a Funeral
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons i...
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Enigma
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to en...
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Pride & Prejudice
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a ge...
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Robin Hood
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to...
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Warriors
If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying f...
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Holland
Teacher Nancy's life with her husband in Holland, Michigan, tumbles into a twisted tale when she and...
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Frost/Nixon
For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steel...
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The Hungerford Massacre
A re-enactment-documentary of the Murder-Suicide rampage by Michael Ryan, carried out on the 19th Au...
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Maybe Baby
Sam and Lucie Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all: good looks, successful careers, mat...
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Enid
A poignant biography of one of the most successful and wildly-read writers of the 20th century. Her ...
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Incendiary
A woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a so...
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Middletown
Having spent most of his life in religious instruction, Gabriel returns to his hometown as its new p...
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Anna Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...
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Secret Life
Charlie is white, middle class and a child sex offender. And though he's served his sentence, by his...
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The Reckoning
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with...
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Lost in Karastan
Washed up British film director, Emil, who is invited by a nascent state to make a national Epic in ...
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The Project
The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of un...
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The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of a well-known musical family, overcomes many obstacles to pu...
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Churchill's Secret
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a s...
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Deadpool & Wolverine
A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary, ...
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
When Clara’s mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she embarks on a journey to four secret realms—whe...
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The Current War
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and ...
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If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme tol...
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Wuthering Heights
Gipsy boy Heathcliffe is adopted by a god-fearing landowner in northern England and grows up as the ...
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Revolution: New Art for a New World
Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, c...
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24 Hours on Earth
The changing position of the sun in the sky affects the behaviour of animals and plants across our p...
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The Assistant
A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her dai...
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Mr. Bean's Wedding
In this Comic Relief sketch, the lovable yet clumsy Mr. Bean finds himself at the wedding of an unsu...
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Operation Mincemeat
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a...
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The Three Musketeers
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Muskete...
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Grindhouse
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who...
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, and director Shawn Levy sit down and spill the proverbial beans about h...
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Inside MI5: The Real Spooks
British espionage historian Christopher Andrew joins MI5 to examine their historical archives as par...
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