1978-04-03 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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Allez Hëpp Hopp Hopp! | (voice) | 2025-07-03 |
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Abigail | Father | 2024-04-16 |
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Freud's Last Session | C. S. Lewis | 2023-12-22 |
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The House | Raymond (voice) | 2022-01-14 |
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Medieval | král Zikmund | 2022-09-08 |
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The Colour Room | Colley Shorter | 2021-11-12 |
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The Duke | Jeremy Hutchinson | 2021-07-23 |
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Silent Night | Simon | 2021-12-03 |
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The King's Man | Morton | 2021-12-22 |
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Four Kids and It | David | 2020-04-03 |
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Official Secrets | Peter Beaumont | 2019-08-30 |
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Downton Abbey | Henry Talbot | 2019-09-12 |
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society | Sidney Stark | 2018-04-19 |
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Birthmarked | Ben | 2018-03-30 |
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The Hatton Garden Job | XXX | 2017-04-14 |
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The Sense of an Ending | Mr. Joe Hunt | 2017-03-10 |
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Allied | Guy Sangster | 2016-11-23 |
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Self/less | Albright | 2015-07-10 |
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Pressure | Mitchell | 2015-06-04 |
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The Imitation Game | Hugh Alexander | 2014-11-14 |
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Belle | Captain Sir John Lindsay | 2013-05-01 |
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Stoker | Charlie Stoker | 2013-02-28 |
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Burning Man | Tom | 2011-09-10 |
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Cemetery Junction | Mike Ramsay | 2010-04-14 |
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Leap Year | Declan | 2010-01-08 |
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Watchmen | Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias | 2009-03-04 |
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A Single Man | Jim | 2009-12-11 |
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Brideshead Revisited | Charles Ryder | 2008-07-25 |
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The Lookout | Gary Spargo | 2007-03-09 |
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Imagine Me & You | Heck | 2006-01-27 |
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Copying Beethoven | Martin Bauer | 2006-09-10 |
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My Family and Other Animals | Larry Durrell | 2005-12-27 |
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia | Ali Baba | 2005-01-01 |
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Match Point | Tom Hewett | 2005-10-26 |
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Chasing Liberty | Ben Calder | 2004-01-09 |
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Al sur de Granada | Gerald Brenan | 2003-01-09 |
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister | Casper | 2002-03-10 |
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