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Matthew Goode

Matthew Goode

Birthday: 1978-04-03 | Place of Birth: Exeter, Devon, England, UK

Matthew Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's TV film feature Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty (2004), for which he received a nomination at Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male. He then appeared in a string of supporting roles in films like Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), the German-British romantic comedy Imagine Me and You (2006), and the period drama Copying Beethoven (2006). He won praise for his performance as Charles Ryder in Julian Jarrold's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (2008), and as Ozymandias in the American neo-noir superhero film Watchmen (2009), based on the comics by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. He then starred in romantic comedy Leap Year (2010) and Australian drama Burning Man (2011), the latter earning him a nomination for Best Actor at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Other notable 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). As well as appearing in films, Goode has appeared in numerous television shows. His most notable television roles include Henry Talbot in the final season of historical drama Downton Abbey, and Finley "Finn" Polmar in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife. He also had a lead role in the critically acclaimed British mini-serial Dancing on the Edge, as music journalist Stanley Mitchell. In 2017, Goode portrayed Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in the Netflix biographical drama series The Crown, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. As of 2018, he stars in Sky One's fantasy-romance series, A Discovery of Witches, as Professor Matthew Clairmont.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Duke

as    Jeremy Hutchinson

2022
The House

as    Raymond (voice)

2022
The Offer

as    Robert Evans

2021
The Colour Room

as    Colley Shorter

2021
The King's Man

as    Morton

2021
Silent Night

as    Simon

2020
Four Kids and It

as    David

2019
Official Secrets

as    Peter Beaumont

2018
Birthmarked

as    Ben

2018
A Discovery of Witches

as    Matthew Clairmont

2018
Ordeal by Innocence

as    Philip Durrant

2017
The Sense of an Ending

as    Mr. Joe Hunt

2017
The Hatton Garden Job

as    XXX

2016
Roots

as    Dr. William Waller

2016
Allied

as    Guy Sangster

2015
Self/less

as    Albright

2015
Pressure

as    Mitchell

2014
The Imitation Game

as    Hugh Alexander

2013
Belle

as    Captain Sir John Lindsay

2013
Stoker

as    Charlie Stoker

2013
Death Comes to Pemberley

as    George Wickham

2013
Death Comes to Pemberley

as    George Wickham

2013
Dancing on the Edge

as    Stanley Mitchell

2013
Dancing on the Edge

as    Stanley Mitchell

2012
Birdsong

as    Captain Gray

2012
Birdsong

as    Captain Gray

1
Magik

as    Talon