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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 17, 1974
Place of Birth
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
Also Known As
- 매튜 맥퍼딘
- 馬修‧麥費狄恩
- متیو مک فادین
- Դևիդ Մեթյու ՄակՖադյեն
- Мэттью Макфэдиен
- David Matthew Macfadyen
- מת'יו מקפיידן
Matthew Macfadyen
3.3 Popularity
Biography
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
7.5
Charles Guiteau
Death by Lightning
2025
5.4
Fred Vandergroot
Holland
2025
6.7
Self - Mr. Paradox
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
7.6
Mr. Paradox
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
6.3
John Stonehouse
Stonehouse
2023
6.5
Charles Cholmondeley
Operation Mincemeat
2022
6.8
Charles Ingram
Quiz
2020
6.3
Wilcock
The Assistant
2020
6.3
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
6.1
Benjamin Stahlbaum
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
Credits
Death by Lightning
as Charles Guiteau
2025
7.5
Holland
as Fred Vandergroot
2025
5.4
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
as Self - Mr. Paradox
2024
6.7
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Mr. Paradox
2024
7.6
Stonehouse
as John Stonehouse
2023
6.3
Operation Mincemeat
as Charles Cholmondeley
2022
6.5
Quiz
as Charles Ingram
2020
6.8
The Assistant
as Wilcock
2020
6.3
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Benjamin Stahlbaum
2018
6.1
Succession
as Tom Wambsgans
2018
8.3
The Current War
as J.P. Morgan
2018
6.7
Howards End
as Henry Wilcox
2017
7.0
Revolution: New Art for a New World
as Vladimir Lenin (voice)
2017
7.5
Churchill's Secret
as Randolph Churchill
2016
6.3
The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
as Georg von Trapp
2015
5.9
The Last Kingdom
as Lord Uhtred
2015
8.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
The Enfield Haunting
as Guy Lyon Playfair
2015
6.6
Lost in Karastan
as Emil Forester
2014
4.6
🎬
If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
as Narrator (voice)
2014
0.0
24 Hours on Earth
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2014
6.3
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Ambassadors
as POD
2013
6.8
Ripper Street
as Edmund Reid
2012
7.4
Anna Karenina
as Oblonsky
2012
6.7
The Three Musketeers
as Athos
2011
5.8
Any Human Heart
as Logan Mountstuart
2010
6.0
The Pillars of the Earth
as Prior Phillip
2010
7.6
Robin Hood
as Sheriff of Nottingham
2010
6.4
🎬
Inside MI5: The Real Spooks
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2009
0.0
Enid
as Hugh Pollock
2009
6.4
Little Dorrit
as Arthur Clennam
2008
7.8
Frost/Nixon
as John Birt
2008
7.3
Criminal Justice
as Joe Miller
2008
7.6
Ashes to Ashes
as Gil Hollis
2008
7.7
Incendiary
as Terrance
2008
5.4
The Blair Years
as Narrator
2007
0.0
Death at a Funeral
as Daniel
2007
6.9
🎬
Secret Life
as Charlie
2007
6.6
Grindhouse
as Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
2007
7.0
Mr. Bean's Wedding
as Daniel
2007
7.2
Middletown
as Gabriel Hunter
2007
4.2
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
as Narrator
2006
6.0
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Darcy
2005
8.1
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Inspector Neele
2004
7.8
The Hungerford Massacre
as Himself (Narratior)
2004
0.0
In My Father's Den
as Paul Prior
2004
7.0
The Reckoning
as King’s Justice
2004
6.4
The Project
as Paul Tibbenham
2002
0.0
🎬
The Project
as Paul Tibbenham
2002
0.0
Spooks
as Tom Quinn
2002
7.7
The Way We Live Now
as Sir Felix Carbury
2001
7.8
Perfect Strangers
as Daniel
2001
6.3
Enigma
as Cave
2001
6.3
Maybe Baby
as Nigel
2000
5.4
Warriors
as Pte. Alan James
1999
6.7
Warriors
as Pte. Alan James
1999
9.0
Wuthering Heights
as Hareton Earnshaw
1998
6.6
HBO First Look
as Self
1992
4.9
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
🎬
The Miniature Wife
as Les
N/A
0.0
🎬
Legacy of Spies
as George Smiley
N/A
0.0