Matthew Goode, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Matthew Goode

English actor

Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1978

Place of Birth: Exeter, England, United Kingdom

Profession: actor, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Matthew Goode

  • Matthew William Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English character 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's garnered 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 DC Comics' limited series of the same name.
  • 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 period 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, for which he earned a nomination for Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Television Film at the Satellite Awards.
  • 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 Star in a Drama Series.
  • He currently stars in Sky One's fantasy-romance series, A Discovery of Witches, as Professor Matthew Clairmont and is filming Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman prequel, The King's Man.

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