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Matthew Macfadyen

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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).

Born

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK on 17th October 1974

All Credits

Late Night with Seth Meyers Image
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Image
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show Image
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
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Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner
The Last Kingdom Image
The Last Kingdom
Lord Uhtred
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Succession
Tom Wambsgans
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Deadpool & Wolverine
Mr. Paradox
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Agatha Christie's Marple
Inspector Neele
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Ripper Street
Edmund Reid
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The Pillars of the Earth
Prior Phillip
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Ashes to Ashes
Gil Hollis
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Stonehouse
John Stonehouse
Spooks Image
Spooks
Tom Quinn
Howards End Image
Howards End
Henry Wilcox
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Criminal Justice
Joe Miller
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Pride & Prejudice
Mr. Darcy
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Ambassadors
POD
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The Enfield Haunting
Guy Lyon Playfair
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Holland
Fred Vandergroot
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The Way We Live Now
Sir Felix Carbury
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The Blair Years
Narrator
Quiz Image
Quiz
Charles Ingram
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Robin Hood
Sheriff of Nottingham
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Benjamin Stahlbaum
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Little Dorrit
Arthur Clennam
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The Three Musketeers
Athos
Anna Karenina Image
Anna Karenina
Oblonsky
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Death at a Funeral
Daniel
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Operation Mincemeat
Charles Cholmondeley
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The Current War
J.P. Morgan
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Grindhouse
Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
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Any Human Heart
Logan Mountstuart
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Enigma
Cave
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
Self - Mr. Paradox
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Frost/Nixon
John Birt
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The Assistant
Wilcock
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Death by Lightning
Charles Guiteau
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Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
Narrator
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The Miniature Wife
Les
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Perfect Strangers
Daniel
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The Reckoning
King’s Justice
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Incendiary
Terrance
Maybe Baby Image
Maybe Baby
Nigel
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Warriors
Pte. Alan James
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Wuthering Heights
Hareton Earnshaw
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Churchill's Secret
Randolph Churchill
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Enid
Hugh Pollock
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Warriors
Pte. Alan James
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The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
Georg von Trapp
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In My Father's Den
Paul Prior
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The Project
Paul Tibbenham
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Mr. Bean's Wedding
Daniel
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Lost in Karastan
Emil Forester
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Revolution: New Art for a New World
Vladimir Lenin (voice)
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The Project
Paul Tibbenham
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Secret Life
Charlie
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If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
Narrator (voice)
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The Hungerford Massacre
Himself (Narratior)
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Middletown
Gabriel Hunter
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24 Hours on Earth
Narrator (voice)
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Inside MI5: The Real Spooks
Self - Narrator (voice)