Matthew Goode

Biography

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.

Known For

The Crown

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Good Wife

Downton Abbey

Agatha Christie's Marple

The One Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

A Discovery of Witches

All Movies (40)

• Spiked2025 · as Walter / Sir Balderdash (voice)
• Abigail2024 · as Father
• Freud's Last Session2023 · as C. S. Lewis
• Medieval2022 · as král Zikmund
• The House2022 · as Raymond (voice)
• The King's Man2021 · as Morton
• Silent Night2021 · as Simon
• The Colour Room2021 · as Colley Shorter
• The Duke2021 · as Jeremy Hutchinson
• Four Kids and It2020 · as David
• Downton Abbey2019 · as Henry Talbot
• Official Secrets2019 · as Peter Beaumont
• The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society2018 · as Sidney Stark
• Birthmarked2018 · as Ben
• The Hatton Garden Job2017 · as XXX
• The Sense of an Ending2017 · as Mr. Joe Hunt
• Allied2016 · as Guy Sangster
• Self/less2015 · as Albright
• Pressure2015 · as Mitchell
• The Imitation Game2014 · as Hugh Alexander
• Belle2013 · as Captain Sir John Lindsay
• Stoker2013 · as Charlie Stoker
• Burning Man2011 · as Tom
• Cemetery Junction2010 · as Mike Ramsay
• Leap Year2010 · as Declan
• A Single Man2009 · as Jim
• Watchmen2009 · as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
• Brideshead Revisited2008 · as Charles Ryder
• The Lookout2007 · as Gary Spargo
• Copying Beethoven2006 · as Martin Bauer
• Imagine Me & You2006 · as Heck
• My Family and Other Animals2005 · as Larry Durrell
• Match Point2005 · as Tom Hewett
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia2005 · as Ali Baba
• Chasing Liberty2004 · as Ben Calder
• South from Granada2003 · as Gerald Brenan
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister2002 · as Casper
• Fortitude—
• The Custom of the Country—
• Hal—

All TV Shows (20)

• Dept. Q2025 · as DCI Carl Morck
• The Offer2022 · as Robert Evans
• A Discovery of Witches2018 · as Matthew Clairmont
• Ordeal by Innocence2018 · as Philip Durrant
• The Crown2016 · as Tony Armstrong-Jones
• Roots2016 · as William Waller
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self
• Death Comes to Pemberley2013 · as George Wickham
• Dancing on the Edge2013 · as Stanley Mitchell
• The Poison Tree2012 · as Rex Clarke
• Birdsong2012 · as Captain Gray
• Downton Abbey2010 · as Henry Talbot
• The Good Wife2009 · as Finn Polmar
• The One Show2006 · as Self
• Agatha Christie's Marple2004 · as Patrick Simmons
• He Knew He Was Right2004 · as Brooke Burgess
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries2002 · as Peter Lynley
• GMTV1993 · as Self
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992
• Roadside Picnic— · as Redrick Schuhart