Matthew Macfadyen
Acting
1974-10-17 · 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 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
The Miniature Wife
2026 · Series
Behind The Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions
2026 · Series
Death by Lightning
2025 · Series
Holland
2025 · Movie
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
2024 · Movie
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024 · Movie
Stonehouse
2023 · Series
Remembers…
2022 · Series
Operation Mincemeat
2022 · Movie
Quiz
2020 · Series
The Assistant
2020 · Movie
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018 · Movie
Succession
2018 · Series
The Current War
2018 · Movie
Howards End
2017 · Series
Revolution: New Art for a New World
2017 · Movie
Churchill's Secret
2016 · Movie
The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
2015 · Movie
The Last Kingdom
2015 · Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
The Enfield Haunting
2015 · Series
Lost in Karastan
2014 · Movie
If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
2014 · Movie
24 Hours on Earth
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
Ambassadors
2013 · Series
Ripper Street
2012 · Series
Anna Karenina
2012 · Movie
The Three Musketeers
2011 · Movie
Any Human Heart
2010 · Series
The Pillars of the Earth
2010 · Series
Robin Hood
2010 · Movie
Inside MI5: The Real Spooks
2009 · Movie
Enid
2009 · Movie
Little Dorrit
2008 · Series
Frost/Nixon
2008 · Movie
Criminal Justice
2008 · Series
Ashes to Ashes
2008 · Series
Incendiary
2008 · Movie
The Blair Years
2007 · Series
Death at a Funeral
2007 · Movie
Secret Life
2007 · Movie
Grindhouse
2007 · Movie
Mr. Bean's Wedding
2007 · Movie
Middletown
2007 · Movie
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
2006 · Series
Pride & Prejudice
2005 · Movie
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Series
The Hungerford Massacre
2004 · Movie
In My Father's Den
2004 · Movie
The Reckoning
2004 · Movie
The Project
2002 · Series
The Project
2002 · Movie
Spooks
2002 · Series
The Way We Live Now
2001 · Series
Perfect Strangers
2001 · Series
Enigma
2001 · Movie
Maybe Baby
2000 · Movie
Warriors
1999 · Movie
Warriors
1999 · Series
Wuthering Heights
1998 · Movie
HBO First Look
1992 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
Legacy of Spies
Series
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Movie
You Are Here
Series