Matthew Goode

DOB: 1978-04-03

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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.

Starred In

2006
Movie

Imagine Me & You

2006
Movie

Copying Beethoven

2007
Movie

The Lookout

2010
Movie

Leap Year

2009
Movie

Watchmen

2009
Movie

A Single Man

2010
Movie

Cemetery Junction

2022
Movie

The House

2011
Movie

Burning Man

2013
Movie

Stoker

2013
Movie

Belle

2015
Movie

Self/less

2015
Movie

Pressure

2005
Movie

Match Point

2003
Movie

South from Granada

2014
Movie

The Imitation Game

NaN
Movie

Magik

2024
Movie

Abigail

2016
Movie

Allied

2018
Movie

Birthmarked

2019
Movie

Official Secrets

2020
Movie

Four Kids and It

2021
Movie

The King's Man

2021
Movie

Silent Night

2022
Movie

Medieval

2021
Movie

The Duke

2019
Movie

Downton Abbey

2021
Movie

The Colour Room

2004
Movie

Chasing Liberty

2025
Movie

Spiked

2022
Tv

The Offer

1993
Tv

GMTV

2012
Tv

Birdsong

2009
Tv

The Good Wife

2010
Tv

Downton Abbey

2016
Tv

Roots

2016
Tv

The Crown

2025
Tv

Dept. Q

2006
Tv

The One Show