Matthew Macfadyen

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

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Last Kingdom

Golden Globe Awards

Deadpool & Wolverine

Succession

All Movies (35)

• Holland2025 · as Fred Vandergroot
• Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine2024 · as Self - Mr. Paradox
• Deadpool & Wolverine2024 · as Mr. Paradox
• Operation Mincemeat2022 · as Charles Cholmondeley
• The Assistant2020 · as Wilcock
• The Nutcracker and the Four Realms2018 · as Benjamin Stahlbaum
• The Current War2018 · as J.P. Morgan
• Revolution: New Art for a New World2017 · as Vladimir Lenin (voice)
• Churchill's Secret2016 · as Randolph Churchill
• The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music2015 · as Georg von Trapp
• Lost in Karastan2014 · as Emil Forester
• If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day2014 · as Narrator (voice)
• 24 Hours on Earth2014 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Anna Karenina2012 · as Oblonsky
• The Three Musketeers2011 · as Athos
• Robin Hood2010 · as Sheriff of Nottingham
• Inside MI5: The Real Spooks2009 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Enid2009 · as Hugh Pollock
• Frost/Nixon2008 · as John Birt
• Incendiary2008 · as Terrance
• Death at a Funeral2007 · as Daniel
• Secret Life2007 · as Charlie
• Grindhouse2007 · as Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
• Mr. Bean's Wedding2007 · as Daniel
• Middletown2007 · as Gabriel Hunter
• Pride & Prejudice2005 · as Mr. Darcy
• The Hungerford Massacre2004 · as Himself (Narratior)
• In My Father's Den2004 · as Paul Prior
• The Reckoning2004 · as King’s Justice
• The Project2002 · as Paul Tibbenham
• Enigma2001 · as Cave
• Maybe Baby2000 · as Nigel
• Warriors1999 · as Pte. Alan James
• Wuthering Heights1998 · as Hareton Earnshaw
• Séance on a Wet Afternoon—

All TV Shows (32)

• The Miniature Wife2026 · as Les Littlejohn
• Behind The Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions2026 · as Himself
• Death by Lightning2025 · as Charles Guiteau
• Stonehouse2023 · as John Stonehouse
• Remembers…2022 · as Self
• Quiz2020 · as Charles Ingram
• The Kelly Clarkson Show2019 · as Self
• Succession2018 · as Tom Wambsgans
• Howards End2017 · as Henry Wilcox
• The Last Kingdom2015 · as Lord Uhtred
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self
• The Enfield Haunting2015 · as Guy Lyon Playfair
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
• Ambassadors2013 · as POD
• Ripper Street2012 · as Edmund Reid
• Any Human Heart2010 · as Logan Mountstuart (Middle)
• The Pillars of the Earth2010 · as Prior Phillip
• Little Dorrit2008 · as Arthur Clennam
• Criminal Justice2008 · as Joe Miller
• Ashes to Ashes2008 · as Gil Hollis
• The Blair Years2007 · as Narrator
• Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial2006 · as Narrator
• Agatha Christie's Marple2004 · as Inspector Neele
• The Project2002 · as Paul Tibbenham
• Spooks2002 · as Tom Quinn
• The Way We Live Now2001 · as Sir Felix Carbury
• Perfect Strangers2001 · as Daniel
• Warriors1999 · as Private Alan James
• HBO First Look1992 · as Self
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee
• Legacy of Spies— · as George Smiley