Matthew Macfadyen
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).
67 acting credits
Acting · 67
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Last Kingdom
2015
Succession
2018
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
Spooks
2002
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Pride & Prejudice
2005
Ripper Street
2012
Remembers…
2022
HBO First Look
1992
The Miniature Wife
2026
Ashes to Ashes
2008
Robin Hood
2010
Little Dorrit
2008
The Pillars of the Earth
2010
Death by Lightning
2025
The Three Musketeers
2011
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
Anna Karenina
2012
Criminal Justice
2008
Grindhouse
2007
Howards End
2017
Quiz
2020
The Way We Live Now
2001
Death at a Funeral
2007
Holland
2025
Any Human Heart
2010
Ambassadors
2013
Stonehouse
2023
Operation Mincemeat
2022
Frost/Nixon
2008
The Current War
2018
The Assistant
2020
Perfect Strangers
2001
Enigma
2001
Incendiary
2008
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
The Reckoning
2004
The Enfield Haunting
2015
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
2006
Legacy of Spies
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Warriors
1999
The Project
2002
In My Father's Den
2004
Wuthering Heights
1998
Churchill's Secret
2016
Maybe Baby
2000
The Blair Years
2007
Enid
2009
The Project
2002
Middletown
2007
Behind The Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions
2026
Warriors
1999
If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
2014
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
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Revolution: New Art for a New World
2017
Mr. Bean's Wedding
2007
Secret Life
2007
The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
2015
Lost in Karastan
2014
Inside MI5: The Real Spooks
2009
The Hungerford Massacre
2004
24 Hours on Earth
2014