Matthew Goode

Matthew Goode

Birthdate
April 3, 1978 (46 years old)
Place of Birth
Exeter, Devon, England, UK
Known For
Acting

Details

Birthdate
April 3, 1978 (46 years old)
Place of Birth
Exeter, Devon, England, UK
Known For
Acting

Biography

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.

Matthew Goode's LGBTQ+ Titles

Imagine Me & You
Imagine Me & You
Heck
A Single Man
A Single Man
Jim

Acting (57)

Destroyer
Magik as Talon
Roadside Picnic as Redrick Schuhart (1 episode)
Department Q as DCI Carl Morck (2 episodes)
2024
Abigail as Father
2023
Freud's Last Session as C. S. Lewis
2022
Medieval as král Zikmund
2022
The Offer as Robert Evans (10 episodes)
2022
The House as Raymond (voice)
2021
The King's Man as Morton
2021
Silent Night as Simon
2021
The Colour Room as Colley Shorter
2021
The Duke as Jeremy Hutchinson
2020
Four Kids and It as David
2019
Downton Abbey as Henry Talbot
2019
Official Secrets as Peter Beaumont
2018
A Discovery of Witches as Matthew Clairmont (25 episodes)
2018
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society as Sidney Stark
2018
Ordeal by Innocence as Philip Durrant (3 episodes)
2018
Birthmarked as Ben
2017
The Hatton Garden Job as XXX
2017
The Sense of an Ending as Mr. Joe Hunt
2016
The Crown as Tony Armstrong-Jones (3 episodes)
2016
Roots as Dr. William Waller (4 episodes)
2016
Allied as Guy Sangster
2015
Self/less as Albright
2015
Pressure as Mitchell
2014
The Imitation Game as Hugh Alexander
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self (1 episode)
2013
Death Comes to Pemberley as George Wickham (3 episodes)
2013
Belle as Captain Sir John Lindsay
2013
Stoker as Charlie Stoker
2013
Dancing on the Edge as Stanley Mitchell (6 episodes)
2012
The Poison Tree as Rex Clarke (2 episodes)
2012
Birdsong as Captain Gray (2 episodes)
2011
Burning Man as Tom
2010
Downton Abbey as Henry Talbot (7 episodes)
2010
Cemetery Junction as Mike Ramsay
2010
Leap Year as Declan
2009
A Single Man as Jim
2009
The Good Wife as Finn Polmar (30 episodes)
2009
Watchmen as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
2008
Brideshead Revisited as Charles Ryder
2007
The Lookout as Gary Spargo
2006
Copying Beethoven as Martin Bauer
2006
2005
My Family and Other Animals as Larry Durrell
2005
Match Point as Tom Hewett
2005
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia as Ali Baba
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple as Patrick Simmons (1 episode)
2004
He Knew He Was Right as Brooke Burgess (4 episodes)
2004
Chasing Liberty as Ben Calder
2003
South from Granada as Gerald Brenan
2002
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Peter Lynley (1 episode)
2002
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister as Casper
1993
GMTV as Self (1 episode)
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1 episode)