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Matthew Macfadyen
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…
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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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Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
The Miniature Wife
TV show Les Littlejohn
- 2025
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2025
Death by Lightning
TV show Charles Guiteau
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2025
Holland
Movie Fred Vandergroot
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2024
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
Movie Self - Mr. Paradox
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2024
Deadpool & Wolverine
Movie Mr. Paradox
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2023
Stonehouse
TV show John Stonehouse
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2022
Remembers…
TV show Self
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2022
Operation Mincemeat
Movie Charles Cholmondeley
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2020
Quiz
TV show Charles Ingram
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2020
The Assistant
Movie Wilcock
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2018
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Movie Benjamin Stahlbaum
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2018
Succession
TV show Tom Wambsgans
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2018
The Current War
Movie J.P. Morgan
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2017
Howards End
TV show Henry Wilcox
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2017
Revolution: New Art for a New World
Movie Vladimir Lenin (voice)
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2016
Churchill's Secret
Movie Randolph Churchill
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2015
The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
Movie Georg von Trapp
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2015
The Last Kingdom
TV show Lord Uhtred
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2015
The Enfield Haunting
TV show Guy Lyon Playfair
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2014
Lost in Karastan
Movie Emil Forester
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2014
If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2014
24 Hours on Earth
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2013
Ambassadors
TV show POD
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2012
Ripper Street
TV show Edmund Reid
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2012
Anna Karenina
Movie Oblonsky
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2011
The Three Musketeers
Movie Athos
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2010
Any Human Heart
TV show Logan Mountstuart (Middle)
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2010
The Pillars of the Earth
TV show Prior Phillip
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2010
Robin Hood
Movie Sheriff of Nottingham
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2009
Inside MI5: The Real Spooks
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2009
Enid
Movie Hugh Pollock
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2008
Little Dorrit
TV show Arthur Clennam
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2008
Frost/Nixon
Movie John Birt
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2008
Criminal Justice
TV show Joe Miller
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2008
Ashes to Ashes
TV show Gil Hollis
