
Matthew Goode
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1978-04-03 (47 years old)
Place of Birth
Exeter, Devon, England, UK
Matthew Goode
Biography
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.
Acting
Magik
as Talon
(2025)
Spiked
as (voice)
(2024)
Abigail
as Father
(2023)
Freud's Last Session
as C. S. Lewis
(2022)
Medieval
as král Zikmund
(2022)
The House
as Raymond (voice)
(2021)
The King's Man
as Morton
(2021)
The Duke
as Jeremy Hutchinson
(2021)
Silent Night
as Simon
(2021)
The Colour Room
as Colley Shorter
(2020)
Four Kids and It
as David
(2019)
Official Secrets
as Peter Beaumont
(2019)
Downton Abbey
as Henry Talbot
(2018)
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Sidney Stark
(2018)
Birthmarked
as Ben
(2017)
The Sense of an Ending
as Mr. Joe Hunt
(2017)
The Hatton Garden Job
as XXX
(2016)
Allied
as Guy Sangster
(2015)
Self/less
as Albright
(2015)
Pressure
as Mitchell
(2014)
The Imitation Game
as Hugh Alexander
(2013)
Belle
as Captain Sir John Lindsay
(2013)
Stoker
as Charlie Stoker
(2011)
Burning Man
as Tom
(2010)
Leap Year
as Declan
(2010)
Cemetery Junction
as Mike Ramsay
(2009)
Watchmen
as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
(2009)
A Single Man
as Jim
(2008)
Brideshead Revisited
as Charles Ryder
(2007)
The Lookout
as Gary Spargo
(2006)
Imagine Me & You
as Heck
(2006)
Copying Beethoven
as Martin Bauer
(2005)
Match Point
as Tom Hewett
(2005)
My Family and Other Animals
as Larry Durrell
(2005)
(2004)
Chasing Liberty
as Ben Calder
(2003)
South from Granada
as Gerald Brenan
(2002)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
as Casper