Matthew Macfadyen
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).
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self - Guest
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self
The Last Kingdom
2015 · Lord Uhtred
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024 · Mr. Paradox
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Inspector Neele
Succession
2018 · Tom Wambsgans
Spooks
2002 · Tom Quinn
Pride & Prejudice
2005 · Mr. Darcy
Ripper Street
2012 · Edmund Reid
Remembers…
2022 · Self
HBO First Look
1992 · Self
The Pillars of the Earth
2010 · Prior Phillip
The Miniature Wife
2026 · Les Littlejohn
Robin Hood
2010 · Sheriff of Nottingham
Death by Lightning
2025 · Charles Guiteau
Ashes to Ashes
2008 · Gil Hollis
The Three Musketeers
2011 · Athos
Perfect Strangers
2001 · Daniel
Little Dorrit
2008 · Arthur Clennam
Criminal Justice
2008 · Joe Miller
Anna Karenina
2012 · Oblonsky
Grindhouse
2007 · Hatchet Victim (segmen...
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018 · Benjamin Stahlbaum
Howards End
2017 · Henry Wilcox
Operation Mincemeat
2022 · Charles Cholmondeley
Quiz
2020 · Charles Ingram
Death at a Funeral
2007 · Daniel
The Current War
2018 · J.P. Morgan
Holland
2025 · Fred Vandergroot
The Assistant
2020 · Wilcock
Frost/Nixon
2008 · John Birt
Any Human Heart
2010 · Logan Mountstuart (Mid...
Stonehouse
2023 · John Stonehouse
Enigma
2001 · Cave
Ambassadors
2013 · POD
The Way We Live Now
2001 · Sir Felix Carbury
The Enfield Haunting
2015 · Guy Lyon Playfair
Behind The Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions
2026 · Himself
Warriors
1999 · Private Alan James
Incendiary
2008 · Terrance
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
2006 · Narrator
The Reckoning
2004 · King’s Justice
Maybe Baby
2000 · Nigel
Enid
2009 · Hugh Pollock
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
2024 · Self - Mr. Paradox
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
— · Billy Savage
The Blair Years
2007 · Narrator
Wuthering Heights
1998 · Hareton Earnshaw
The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
2015 · Georg von Trapp
In My Father's Den
2004 · Paul Prior
Middletown
2007 · Gabriel Hunter
Mr. Bean's Wedding
2007 · Daniel
Churchill's Secret
2016 · Randolph Churchill
Revolution: New Art for a New World
2017 · Vladimir Lenin (voice)
Warriors
1999 · Pte. Alan James
The Hungerford Massacre
2004 · Himself (Narratior)
24 Hours on Earth
2014 · Self - Narrator (voice...
Lost in Karastan
2014 · Emil Forester
Inside MI5: The Real Spooks
2009 · Self - Narrator (voice...