
Matthew Goode
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.
60 acting credits
Acting · 60

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

The Good Wife
2009

The Crown
2016

The One Show
2006

Downton Abbey
2010

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

A Discovery of Witches
2018

GMTV
1993

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002

The Imitation Game
2014

Watchmen
2009

Abigail
2024

Dept. Q
2025

The Offer
2022

The King's Man
2021

Self/less
2015

Roots
2016

Allied
2016

Dancing on the Edge
2013

Leap Year
2010

Ordeal by Innocence
2018

Match Point
2005

Stoker
2013

Downton Abbey
2019

Birdsong
2012

Imagine Me & You
2006

Medieval
2022

Official Secrets
2019

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018

Freud's Last Session
2023

He Knew He Was Right
2004

A Single Man
2009

Death Comes to Pemberley
2013

The House
2022

Silent Night
2021

The Duke
2021

The Lookout
2007

Chasing Liberty
2004

Belle
2013

Brideshead Revisited
2008

The Poison Tree
2012

Cemetery Junction
2010

Pressure
2015

The Sense of an Ending
2017

Copying Beethoven
2006
Roadside Picnic
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Burning Man
2011

Four Kids and It
2020

The Hatton Garden Job
2017

My Family and Other Animals
2005

South from Granada
2003

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
2002

The Colour Room
2021

Spiked
2025

Birthmarked
2018
Fortitude
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Hal
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia
2005
Custom of the Country
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