Matthew Goode
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Abigail as Father
- 2023 · Freud's Last Session as C. S. Lewis
- 2022 · Medieval as král Zikmund
- 2022 · The Offer as Robert Evans
- 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
- 2018 · The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society as Sidney Stark
- 2018 · Ordeal by Innocence as Philip Durrant
- 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
- 2016 · Roots as Dr. William Waller
- 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
- 2013 · Death Comes to Pemberley as George Wickham
- 2013 · Belle as Captain Sir John Lindsay
- 2013 · Stoker as Charlie Stoker
- 2013 · Dancing on the Edge as Stanley Mitchell
- 2012 · The Poison Tree as Rex Clarke
- 2012 · Birdsong as Captain Gray
- 2011 · Burning Man as Tom
- 2010 · Downton Abbey as Henry Talbot
- 2010 · Cemetery Junction as Mike Ramsay
- 2010 · Leap Year as Declan
- 2009 · A Single Man as Jim
- 2009 · The Good Wife as Finn Polmar
- 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 · Imagine Me & You as Heck
- 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
- 2004 · He Knew He Was Right as Brooke Burgess
- 2004 · Chasing Liberty as Ben Calder
- 2003 · South from Granada as Gerald Brenan
- 2002 · The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Peter Lynley
- 1993 · GMTV as Self
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- Future · Magik as Talon
- Future · Roadside Picnic as Redrick Schuhart
- Future · Destroyer as
- 2002 · Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister as Casper
- Future · Department Q as DCI Carl Morck