Actor
Matthew Macfadyen
Born 17 October 1974 · Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
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).
Films and shows
- 2026
The Miniature Wife1 seasonLes Littlejohn - 2025
Death by Lightning1 seasonCharles Guiteau - 2025
Holland1h 48mFred Vandergroot - 2024
Deadpool & Wolverine2h 8mMr. Paradox - 2024
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine59mSelf - Mr. Paradox - 2023
Stonehouse1 seasonJohn Stonehouse - 2022
Operation Mincemeat2h 8mCharles Cholmondeley - 2020
Quiz1 seasonCharles Ingram - 2020
The Assistant1h 28mWilcock - 2020
The Craft Behind Succession9mTom Wambsgans - 2018
The Current War1h 48mJ.P. Morgan - 2018
Succession4 seasonsTom Wambsgans - 2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms1h 39mBenjamin Stahlbaum - 2017
Howards End1 seasonHenry Wilcox - 2017
Revolution: New Art for a New World1h 25mVladimir Lenin (voice) - 2016
Churchill's Secret1h 41mRandolph Churchill - 2015
The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music1h 38mGeorg von Trapp - 2015
The Enfield Haunting1 seasonGuy Lyon Playfair - 2014
Lost in Karastan1h 36mEmil Forester - 2014
24 Hours on Earth48mSelf - Narrator (voice) - 2014If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day47mNarrator (voice)
- 2013
Ambassadors1 seasonPOD - 2012
Ripper Street5 seasonsEdmund Reid - 2012
Anna Karenina2h 9mOblonsky - 2011
The Three Musketeers1h 50mAthos - 2010
Any Human Heart1 seasonLogan Mountstuart (Middle) - 2010
The Pillars of the Earth1 seasonPrior Phillip - 2010
Robin Hood2h 20mSheriff of Nottingham - 2009
Inside MI5: The Real Spooks47mSelf - Narrator (voice) - 2009
Enid1h 22mHugh Pollock - 2008
Little Dorrit1 seasonArthur Clennam - 2008
Incendiary1h 53mTerrance - 2008
Frost/Nixon2h 2mJohn Birt - 2008
Criminal Justice2 seasonsJoe Miller - 2007Secret Life1h 10mCharlie
- 2007
Middletown1h 28mGabriel Hunter - 2007
Mr. Bean's Wedding7mDaniel - 2007
Death at a Funeral1h 31mDaniel - 2007
The Blair Years1 seasonNarrator - 2006
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial1 seasonNarrator - 2005
Pride & Prejudice2h 8mMr. Darcy - 2004
In My Father's Den2h 6mPaul Prior - 2004
The Hungerford Massacre1hHimself (Narratior) - 2004
The Reckoning1h 52mKing’s Justice - 2002The Project3h 32mPaul Tibbenham
- 2002
The Project1 seasonPaul Tibbenham - 2001
Perfect Strangers1 seasonDaniel - 2001
The Way We Live Now1 seasonSir Felix Carbury - 2001
Enigma1h 59mCave - 2000
Maybe Baby1h 44mNigel - 1999
Warriors2h 55mPte. Alan James - 1999
Warriors1 seasonPrivate Alan James - 1998
Wuthering Heights1h 52mHareton Earnshaw - You Are Here1 seasonMichael
- Legacy of Spies1 seasonGeorge Smiley
- Séance on a Wet Afternoon
