Matthew William Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's television film Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty (2004), for which he received a nomination at the Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male. He then appeared in a string of supporting roles in films, such as Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), the romantic comedy Imagine Me and You (2006), and the period drama Copying Beethoven (2006). He earned praise for his performances as Charles Ryder in the 2008 film adaptation of the novel Brideshead Revisited and as Ozymandias in the superhero film Watchmen (2009). He then starred in the romantic comedy Leap Year (2010) and the Australian drama Burning Man (2011), the latter earning him nominations for Best Actor at both the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards and the AACTA Awards.  His other 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). Goode has also appeared in television series, including Henry Talbot in the historical drama Downton Abbey, Finley "Finn" Polmar in the legal drama The Good Wife, and a music journalist in the drama Dancing on the Edge. In 2017, Goode portrayed Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in the second season of the biographical drama series The Crown, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. From 2018–2022, Goode starred in the fantasy romance series, A Discovery of Witches. In 2022, he starred as famed Paramount studio head Robert Evans in The Offer, a miniseries about the making of the classic 1972 gangster film The Godfather. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Matthew Goode, licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors is on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• Dept. Q — DCI Carl Morck
• 2025Spiked — Walter / Sir Balderdash (voice)
• 2024Abigail — Father
• 2023Freud's Last Session — C. S. Lewis
• 2022Medieval — král Zikmund
• 2022The House — Raymond (voice)
• The Offer — Robert Evans
• 2021Silent Night — Simon
• 2021The Colour Room — Colley Shorter
• 2021The Duke — Jeremy Hutchinson
• 2021The King's Man — Morton
• 2020Four Kids and It — David
• 2019Downton Abbey — Henry Talbot
• 2019Official Secrets — Peter Beaumont
• A Discovery of Witches — Matthew Clairmont
• 2018Birthmarked — Ben
• Ordeal by Innocence — Philip Durrant
• 2018The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society — Sidney Stark
• 2017The Hatton Garden Job — XXX
• 2017The Sense of an Ending — Mr. Joe Hunt
• 2016Allied — Guy Sangster
• Roots — William Waller
• The Crown — Tony Armstrong-Jones
• 2015Pressure — Mitchell
• 2015Self/less — Albright
• 2014The Imitation Game — Hugh Alexander
• 2013Belle — Captain Sir John Lindsay
• Dancing on the Edge — Stanley Mitchell
• Death Comes to Pemberley — George Wickham
• 2013Stoker — Charlie Stoker
• Birdsong — Captain Gray
• The Poison Tree — Rex Clarke
• 2011Burning Man — Tom
• 2010Cemetery Junction — Mike Ramsay
• Downton Abbey — Henry Talbot
• 2010Leap Year — Declan
• 2009A Single Man — Jim
• The Good Wife — Finn Polmar
• 2009Watchmen — Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
• 2008Brideshead Revisited — Charles Ryder
• 2007The Lookout — Gary Spargo
• 2006Copying Beethoven — Martin Bauer
• 2006Imagine Me & You — Heck
• 2005Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia — Ali Baba
• 2005Match Point — Tom Hewett
• 2005My Family and Other Animals — Larry Durrell
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Patrick Simmons
• 2004Chasing Liberty — Ben Calder
• He Knew He Was Right — Brooke Burgess
• 2003South from Granada — Gerald Brenan
• 2002Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister — Casper
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries — Peter Lynley
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Fortitude — Thomas Argyll “TAR” Robertson
• Hal
• Roadside Picnic — Redrick Schuhart
• The Custom of the Country

Appearances as themselves (3)

• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• The One Show — Self
• GMTV — Self