Matthew Macfadyen
Acting • Born 1974-10-17
Biography
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).
Filmography
66 credits
In My Father's Den
Movie • 2004
Paul Prior
Death at a Funeral
Movie • 2007
Daniel
Enigma
Movie • 2001
Cave
Pride & Prejudice
Movie • 2005
Mr. Darcy
Robin Hood
Movie • 2010
Sheriff of Nottingham
Warriors
Movie • 1999
Pte. Alan James
Holland
Movie • 2025
Fred Vandergroot
Frost/Nixon
Movie • 2008
John Birt
The Hungerford Massacre
Movie • 2004
Himself (Narratior)
Maybe Baby
Movie • 2000
Nigel
Enid
Movie • 2009
Hugh Pollock
Incendiary
Movie • 2008
Terrance
Middletown
Movie • 2007
Gabriel Hunter
Anna Karenina
Movie • 2012
Oblonsky
Secret Life
Movie • 2007
Charlie
The Reckoning
Movie • 2004
King’s Justice
Lost in Karastan
Movie • 2014
Emil Forester
The Project
Movie • 2002
Paul Tibbenham
The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
Movie • 2015
Georg von Trapp
Churchill's Secret
Movie • 2016
Randolph Churchill
Deadpool & Wolverine
Movie • 2024
Mr. Paradox
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Movie • 2018
Benjamin Stahlbaum
The Current War
Movie • 2018
J.P. Morgan
If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
Movie • 2014
Narrator (voice)
Wuthering Heights
Movie • 1998
Hareton Earnshaw
Revolution: New Art for a New World
Movie • 2017
Vladimir Lenin (voice)
24 Hours on Earth
Movie • 2014
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Assistant
Movie • 2020
Wilcock
Mr. Bean's Wedding
Movie • 2007
Daniel
Operation Mincemeat
Movie • 2022
Charles Cholmondeley
The Three Musketeers
Movie • 2011
Athos
Grindhouse
Movie • 2007
Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
Movie • 2024
Self - Mr. Paradox
Inside MI5: The Real Spooks
Movie • 2009
Self - Narrator (voice)
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Movie
Ashes to Ashes
TV • 2008
Gil Hollis
Spooks
TV • 2002
Tom Quinn
Warriors
TV • 1999
Pte. Alan James
Criminal Justice
TV • 2008
Joe Miller
The Way We Live Now
TV • 2001
Sir Felix Carbury
Perfect Strangers
TV • 2001
Daniel
Little Dorrit
TV • 2008
Arthur Clennam
The Pillars of the Earth
TV • 2010
Prior Phillip
Any Human Heart
TV • 2010
Logan Mountstuart (Middle)
Ripper Street
TV • 2012
Edmund Reid
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
The Enfield Haunting
TV • 2015
Guy Lyon Playfair
The Project
TV • 2002
Paul Tibbenham
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Stonehouse
TV • 2023
John Stonehouse
Howards End
TV • 2017
Henry Wilcox
Succession
TV • 2018
Tom Wambsgans
Ambassadors
TV • 2013
POD
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
TV • 2006
Narrator
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
The Last Kingdom
TV • 2015
Lord Uhtred
Death by Lightning
TV • 2025
Charles Guiteau
The Miniature Wife
TV • 2026
Les
Quiz
TV • 2020
Charles Ingram
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
The Blair Years
TV • 2007
Narrator
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Inspector Neele
HBO First Look
TV • 1992
Self
Legacy of Spies
TV
George Smiley
Remembers…
TV • 2022
Self