Matthew Macfadyen
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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).
Known for
Credits
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
as Mr. Paradox
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
as Mr. Darcy
Robin Hood (2010)
as Sheriff of Nottingham
The Three Musketeers (2011)
as Athos
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
as Benjamin Stahlbaum
Holland (2025)
as Fred Vandergroot
Operation Mincemeat (2022)
as Charles Cholmondeley
Frost/Nixon (2008)
as John Birt
Anna Karenina (2012)
as Oblonsky
Grindhouse (2007)
as Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
The Current War (2018)
as J.P. Morgan
Death at a Funeral (2007)
as Daniel
The Assistant (2020)
as Wilcock
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
as Self - Mr. Paradox
Enigma (2001)
as Cave
The Reckoning (2004)
as King’s Justice
Incendiary (2008)
as Terrance
Maybe Baby (2000)
as Nigel
In My Father's Den (2004)
as Paul Prior
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (—)
as Billy Savage
Wuthering Heights (1998)
as Hareton Earnshaw
Warriors (1999)
as Pte. Alan James
Churchill's Secret (2016)
as Randolph Churchill
Enid (2009)
as Hugh Pollock
Middletown (2007)
as Gabriel Hunter
The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music (2015)
as Georg von Trapp
Revolution: New Art for a New World (2017)
as Vladimir Lenin (voice)
Mr. Bean's Wedding (2007)
as Daniel
The Project (2002)
as Paul Tibbenham
Lost in Karastan (2014)
as Emil Forester
If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day (2014)
as Narrator (voice)
24 Hours on Earth (2014)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Secret Life (2007)
as Charlie
The Hungerford Massacre (2004)
as Himself (Narratior)
Inside MI5: The Real Spooks (2009)
as Self - Narrator (voice)