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Matthew Macfadyen

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).

Known For

In My Father's Den
In My Father's Den
Death at a Funeral
Death at a Funeral
Enigma
Enigma
Pride & Prejudice
Pride & Prejudice
Robin Hood
Robin Hood
Warriors
Warriors
Holland
Holland
Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon
The Hungerford Massacre
The Hungerford Massacre
Maybe Baby
Maybe Baby

Filmography

2025 Holland
as Fred Vandergroot
2024 Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
as Self - Mr. Paradox
2024 Deadpool & Wolverine
as Mr. Paradox
2023 Stonehouse
as John Stonehouse
2022 Operation Mincemeat
as Charles Cholmondeley
2020 Quiz
as Charles Ingram
2020 The Assistant
as Wilcock
2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2018 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Benjamin Stahlbaum
2018 Succession
as Tom Wambsgans
2018 The Current War
as J.P. Morgan
2017 Howards End
as Henry Wilcox
2017 Revolution: New Art for a New World
as Vladimir Lenin (voice)
2016 Churchill's Secret
as Randolph Churchill
2015 The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
as Georg von Trapp
2015 The Last Kingdom
as Lord Uhtred
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015 The Enfield Haunting
as Guy Lyon Playfair
2014 Lost in Karastan
as Emil Forester
2014 If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
as Narrator (voice)