Matthew Macfadyen
Actor
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).
Filmography
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Mr. Paradox 2024
Robin Hood
as Sheriff of Nottingham 2010
The Three Musketeers
as Athos 2011
Anna Karenina
as Oblonsky 2012
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Benjamin Stahlbaum 2018
Death at a Funeral
as Daniel 2007
Grindhouse
as Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited) 2007
Frost/Nixon
as John Birt 2008
The Current War
as J.P. Morgan 2018
Operation Mincemeat
as Charles Cholmondeley 2022
The Assistant
as Wilcock 2020
Holland
as Fred Vandergroot 2025
Enigma
as Cave 2001
Incendiary
as Terrance 2008
The Reckoning
as King’s Justice 2004
In My Father's Den
as Paul Prior 2004