Matthew Goode

Born: 1978-04-03

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.


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Abigail

as Father
Released: 2024-04-18

After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12 year old ballerina daughter of a powerful...

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as Morton
Released: 2021-12-22

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe...

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as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
Released: 2009-03-04

In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a...

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The Imitation Game

as Hugh Alexander
Released: 2014-11-14

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the...

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Allied

as Guy Sangster
Released: 2016-11-17

In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter...

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Match Point

as Tom Hewett
Released: 2005-10-26

Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy...

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Self/less

as Albright
Released: 2015-07-10

An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that...

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Leap Year

as Declan
Released: 2010-01-08

When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides...

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Downton Abbey

as Henry Talbot
Released: 2019-09-12

The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their...

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Medieval

as král Zikmund
Released: 2022-09-08

The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord, Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the...

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Official Secrets

as Peter Beaumont
Released: 2019-08-30

The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq...

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Imagine Me & You

as Heck
Released: 2005-09-09

During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to...

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Chasing Liberty

as Ben Calder
Released: 2004-01-09

The President's daughter, unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her...

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The House

as Raymond (voice)
Released: 2022-01-14

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to...

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Freud's Last Session

as C. S. Lewis
Released: 2023-12-22

On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S....

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Stoker

as Charlie Stoker
Released: 2013-02-28

After India Stoker's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live...

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as Jeremy Hutchinson
Released: 2021-07-23

In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the...

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The Lookout

as Gary Spargo
Released: 2007-03-09

Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a...

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Belle

as Captain Sir John Lindsay
Released: 2013-05-01

Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an...

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Silent Night

as Simon
Released: 2021-12-03

Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a...

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Copying Beethoven

as Martin Bauer
Released: 2006-09-10

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony....

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Brideshead Revisited

as Charles Ryder
Released: 2008-07-25

Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of...

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Cemetery Junction

as Mike Ramsay
Released: 2010-04-14

In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and...

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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

as Sidney Stark
Released: 2018-04-19

Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric...

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Pressure

as Mitchell
Released: 2015-06-04

Four divers are stuck deep underwater in a vessel after a freak storm destroys their ship. Will...

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A Single Man

as Jim
Released: 2009-12-11

The life of George Falconer, a British college professor, is reeling with the recent and sudden...

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The Sense of an Ending

as Mr. Joe Hunt
Released: 2017-03-10

A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to...

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Four Kids and It

as David
Released: 2020-04-03

A group of kids on holiday in Cornwall meet a magical creature on the beach with the power to...

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The Hatton Garden Job

as XXX
Released: 2017-04-14

In April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in...

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Birthmarked

as Ben
Released: 2018-03-30

Two scientists raise three children contrarily to their genetic tendencies in order to prove the...

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Burning Man

as Tom
Released: 2011-09-10

An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his...

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My Family and Other Animals

as Larry Durrell
Released: 2005-12-27

An English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.

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The Colour Room

as Colley Shorter
Released: 2021-11-12

A pioneering ceramic artist Clarice Cliff roares to prominence in the 1920s while working in...

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South from Granada

as Gerald Brenan
Released: 2003-01-09

Brenan arrives at Yegen on foot, interrupting the funeral held for the daughter of the local...

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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

as Casper
Released: 2002-03-10

A look at the classic "Cinderella" story from the perspective of one of her 'ugly' stepsisters

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Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self
First aired: 2014-02-25

Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular...

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The Good Wife

as Finn Polmar
First aired: 2009-09-22

Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce...

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Downton Abbey

as Henry Talbot
First aired: 2010-09-26

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the...

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Agatha Christie's Marple

as Patrick Simmons
First aired: 2004-12-12

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St...

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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-05-25

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that...

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The Crown

as Tony Armstrong-Jones
First aired: 2016-11-04

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime...

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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

as Peter Lynley
First aired: 2002-04-08

DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.

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A Discovery of Witches

as Matthew Clairmont
First aired: 2018-09-14

Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly...

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The Offer

as Robert Evans
First aired: 2022-04-28

Oscar-winning producer Al Ruddy’s never before revealed experiences of making the iconic 1972...

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Dancing on the Edge

as Stanley Mitchell
First aired: 2013-02-04

An explosive 1930s drama following a jazz band in London at a time of huge change.

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GMTV

as Self
First aired: 1993-01-01

GMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee,...

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Roots

as Dr. William Waller
First aired: 2016-05-30

An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte...

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Ordeal by Innocence

as Philip Durrant
First aired: 2018-04-01

The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a...

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Death Comes to Pemberley

as George Wickham
First aired: 2013-12-26

Adaptation of PD James's bestselling homage to Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth and Darcy, now six...

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He Knew He Was Right

as Brooke Burgess
First aired: 2004-04-18

He Knew He Was Right was a 2004 BBC TV adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel He Knew He Was...

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Birdsong

as Captain Gray
First aired: 2012-01-22

As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the...

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The Poison Tree

as Rex Clarke
First aired: 2012-12-10

Karen Clarke was an ordinary girl thrown into an extraordinary world, as she first meets the...

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