Matthew Goode
Biography
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.
Known For
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Good Wife
2009
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The One Show
2006
The Crown
2016
The Imitation Game
2014
Downton Abbey
2010
GMTV
1993
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
A Discovery of Witches
2018
The King's Man
2021
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002
Filmography
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self · 2014
The Good Wife
as Finn Polmar · 2009
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
· 1992
The One Show
as Self · 2006
The Crown
as Tony Armstrong-Jones · 2016
The Imitation Game
as Hugh Alexander · 2014
Downton Abbey
as Henry Talbot · 2010
GMTV
as Self · 1993
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Patrick Simmons · 2004
A Discovery of Witches
as Matthew Clairmont · 2018
The King's Man
as Morton · 2021
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
as Peter Lynley · 2002
Abigail
as Father · 2024
The Offer
as Robert Evans · 2022
Dept. Q
as DCI Carl Morck · 2025
Watchmen
as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias · 2009
Self/less
as Albright · 2015
Allied
as Guy Sangster · 2016
Match Point
as Tom Hewett · 2005
Downton Abbey
as Henry Talbot · 2019
Roots
as William Waller · 2016
Leap Year
as Declan · 2010
Ordeal by Innocence
as Philip Durrant · 2018
Official Secrets
as Peter Beaumont · 2019
The Duke
as Jeremy Hutchinson · 2021
Dancing on the Edge
as Stanley Mitchell · 2013
Medieval
as král Zikmund · 2022
A Single Man
as Jim · 2009
The House
as Raymond (voice) · 2022
Imagine Me & You
as Heck · 2006
Silent Night
as Simon · 2021
Stoker
as Charlie Stoker · 2013
Death Comes to Pemberley
as George Wickham · 2013
He Knew He Was Right
as Brooke Burgess · 2004
The Lookout
as Gary Spargo · 2007
Four Kids and It
as David · 2020
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Sidney Stark · 2018
Freud's Last Session
as C. S. Lewis · 2023
Chasing Liberty
as Ben Calder · 2004
The Sense of an Ending
as Mr. Joe Hunt · 2017
Brideshead Revisited
as Charles Ryder · 2008
The Hatton Garden Job
as XXX · 2017
Birdsong
as Captain Gray · 2012
Cemetery Junction
as Mike Ramsay · 2010
Belle
as Captain Sir John Lindsay · 2013
Spiked
as Walter / Sir Balderdash (voice) · 2025
Copying Beethoven
as Martin Bauer · 2006
The Poison Tree
as Rex Clarke · 2012
Roadside Picnic
as Redrick Schuhart
My Family and Other Animals
as Larry Durrell · 2005
The Custom of the Country
Pressure
as Mitchell · 2015
Hal
Burning Man
as Tom · 2011
South from Granada
as Gerald Brenan · 2003
The Colour Room
as Colley Shorter · 2021
Fortitude
as Thomas Argyll “TAR” Robertson
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
as Casper · 2002
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia
as Ali Baba · 2005
Birthmarked
as Ben · 2018