Acting credits
61
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Matthew Macfadyen
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
3.5
Moderate attention
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Movies: 31Series: 30Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 15576
IMDb ID: nm0532193
Known for: Acting
Born: October 17, 1974
Age: 51
Place of birth: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2026
Years active: 83
Average TMDB rating: 6.81
Wikidata: Q314954
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
Other jobs
Executive Producer (2)
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).
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Matthew Macfadyen.
5.4
Holland
as Fred Vandergroot
2025 Movie
6.7
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
as Self - Mr. Paradox
2024 Movie
7.6
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Mr. Paradox
2024 Movie
6.5
Operation Mincemeat
as Charles Cholmondeley
2022 Movie
6.3
The Assistant
as Wilcock
2020 Movie
6.1
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Benjamin Stahlbaum
2018 Movie
6.7
The Current War
as J.P. Morgan
2018 Movie
7.5
Revolution: New Art for a New World
as Vladimir Lenin (voice)
2017 Movie
6.3
Churchill's Secret
as Randolph Churchill
2016 Movie
5.9
The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
as Georg von Trapp
2015 Movie
4.6
Lost in Karastan
as Emil Forester
2014 Movie
6.3
24 Hours on Earth
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2014 Movie
6.7
Anna Karenina
as Oblonsky
2012 Movie
5.8
The Three Musketeers
as Athos
2011 Movie
6.4
Robin Hood
as Sheriff of Nottingham
2010 Movie
Inside MI5: The Real Spooks
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2009 Movie
6.4
Enid
as Hugh Pollock
2009 Movie
7.3
Frost/Nixon
as John Birt
2008 Movie
5.4
Incendiary
as Terrance
2008 Movie
6.9
Death at a Funeral
as Daniel
2007 Movie
7.0
Grindhouse
as Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
2007 Movie
7.1
Mr. Bean's Wedding
as Daniel
2007 Movie
4.2
Middletown
as Gabriel Hunter
2007 Movie
8.1
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Darcy
2005 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Matthew Macfadyen.
Apr 9
The Miniature Wife
as Les • 10 eps
2026 Series
7.4
Death by Lightning
as Charles Guiteau • 4 eps
2025 Series
6.3
Stonehouse
as John Stonehouse • 3 eps
2023 Series
Remembers…
as Self • 1 eps
2022 Series
6.9
Quiz
as Charles Ingram • 3 eps
2020 Series
6.4
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self • 1 eps
2019 Series
8.3
Succession
as Tom Wambsgans • 39 eps
2018 Series
6.9
Howards End
as Henry Wilcox • 4 eps
2017 Series
8.2
The Last Kingdom
as Lord Uhtred • 1 eps
2015 Series
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self • 2 eps
2015 Series
6.6
The Enfield Haunting
as Guy Lyon Playfair • 3 eps
2015 Series
5.3
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest • 3 eps
2014 Series
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
6.8
Ambassadors
as POD • 3 eps
2013 Series
7.4
Ripper Street
as Edmund Reid • 36 eps
2012 Series
6.0
Any Human Heart
as Logan Mountstuart • 4 eps
2010 Series
7.6
The Pillars of the Earth
as Prior Phillip • 8 eps
2010 Series
7.8
Little Dorrit
as Arthur Clennam • 14 eps
2008 Series
7.6
Criminal Justice
as Joe Miller • 10 eps
2008 Series
7.7
Ashes to Ashes
as Gil Hollis • 1 eps
2008 Series
The Blair Years
as Narrator • 3 eps
2007 Series
6.0
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
as Narrator • 3 eps
2006 Series
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Inspector Neele • 1 eps
2004 Series
The Project
as Paul Tibbenham • 2 eps
2002 Series