Matthew Goode

Known for ActingBorn 1978-04-03 (age 48)Exeter, Devon, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Crown

Spiked

Downton Abbey

The Offer

The Imitation Game

Dept. Q

A Discovery of Witches

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia

Agatha Christie's Marple

The Good Wife

He Knew He Was Right

Imagine Me & You

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

Watchmen

Match Point

Official Secrets

A Single Man

Downton Abbey

The House

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

Belle

The Duke

Medieval

Birdsong

Ordeal by Innocence

Roots

Death Comes to Pemberley

Leap Year

Allied

The King's Man

Abigail

Freud's Last Session

Dancing on the Edge

Stoker

The Lookout

Cemetery Junction

Self/less

The Sense of an Ending

Copying Beethoven

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

My Family and Other Animals

The Poison Tree

Four Kids and It

Brideshead Revisited

The Colour Room

Chasing Liberty

Silent Night

Burning Man