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David Matthew Macfadyen (/məkˈfædiən/; 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) for which he received a London Film Critics' Circle nomination for Best Newcomer. He currently stars as Tom Wambsgans in the HBO drama series Succession (2018-present) for which he has received a Primetime Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.[1]

Matthew Macfadyen
Macfadyen in 2019
Born	(1974-10-17) 17 October 1974 (age 48) Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
Alma mater	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1995–present
Spouse	Keeley Hawes ​ (m. 2004)​
Children	2

Macfayden 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).

Early life

Macfadyen was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the son of Meinir (née Owen), a drama teacher and former actress, and Martin Macfadyen, an oil engineer.[2][3][4] His paternal grandparents were Scottish and his maternal grandparents were Welsh.[2][5] Macfadyen was brought up in a number of places, including Jakarta, Indonesia, as a result of his father's occupation.[2] He attended schools in England (including in Louth, Lincolnshire), Scotland and Indonesia, and went to Oakham School in Rutland, before being accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at 17. As a student, he was inspired by Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander, which he thought was "[a]n example to follow – an example of people acting with each other...", and "[f]eatured just the most extraordinary acting I'd ever seen".[6]

Career

After having studied at the RADA from 1992 to 1995, Macfadyen became known in British theatre primarily for his work with the stage company Cheek by Jowl, for which he played Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. His Benedick was played as an officer-class buffoon with a moustache and a braying laugh. In 2005, he played Prince Hal in Henry IV, Parts One and Two at the Royal National Theatre, with Michael Gambon in the role of Falstaff. In 2007, he returned to the stage, portraying an American, Clay, a stay-at-home father with a liberal attitude in the play The Pain and the Itch.

A TV breakthrough came when he appeared as Hareton Earnshaw in an adaptation of Wuthering Heights, screened on the ITV network in 1998. Further television drama work followed, including starring roles in the dramas Warriors (1999) and The Way We Live Now (2001), both for the BBC. Also in 2001, he earned acclaim for his starring role in the BBC Two drama serial Perfect Strangers, which was written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff. In 2002, he starred in The Project, a BBC drama charting New Labour's rise to power. He starred in Spooks, which became a success when screened on BBC One. A longer second season was screened in 2003, and a third season was broadcast in autumn 2004, with him leaving the series in the second episode. The series was aired as MI-5 on the A&E Network. In 2007 he appeared in the one-off Channel 4 drama Secret Life, which dealt with paedophilia.[7] Macfadyen won the Best Actor award at the Royal Television Society 2007 Awards for this part, and was nominated for a BAFTA. He also appeared in a short sketch for Comic Relief as the bridegroom in Mr. Bean's Wedding, alongside Rowan Atkinson and Michelle Ryan.

Macfadyen appeared in films including Enigma (released in 2001), and In My Father's Den, for which he received the New Zealand Screen Award for Best Actor.[8] He starred as the romantic lead Fitzwilliam Darcy in an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released in the UK in September 2005.

Macfadyen starred in Frank Oz's Death at a Funeral and the film Incendiary, based on Chris Cleave's novel alongside Michelle Williams and Ewan McGregor. He also appeared in Ron Howard's film Frost/Nixon, in which he played John Birt. In 2008, he played the male lead Arthur Clennam in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit. In 2009 Macfadyen appeared alongside Academy Award-nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter in the BBC Four movie Enid, based on the life of Enid Blyton, as Hugh Pollock, Blyton's publisher and first husband.

In 2010, he played the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood. He starred as Prior Philip in the TV serial The Pillars of the Earth, and was the middle-aged Logan Mountstuart in Any Human Heart. In June 2010, Macfadyen won a British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Criminal Justice.

In 2011, Macfadyen made a final cameo in the BBC show Spooks, and in 2012, he played Oblonsky in Joe Wright's film, Anna Karenina. In December 2012 he began portraying Detective Inspector Edmund Reid in BBC One's Ripper Street.

In 2013-14 he played Jeeves in the production of Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End of London. The play won the 2014 Olivier award for Best New Comedy.[9][10][11]

In 2015 Amazon Prime picked up Ripper Street and, after good reviews, it was recommissioned for fourth and fifth seasons. Macfadyen said he was "delighted to be embarking on another dose of Ripper Street – blood and guts, pocket watches and Victorian headgear, wonderfully dark, moving and mysterious story lines from Mr Richard Wardlow".[12] The series also aired in the U.S. on BBC America. Also in 2015, he guest starred in the pilot episode of The Last Kingdom.

He currently stars as Tom Wambsgans in the HBO series Succession, for which he has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and in 2022, a Primetime Emmy Award win for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

In 2020, he appeared in the role of Major Charles Ingram in a three-part ITV drama, Quiz, based on the controversial coughing cheat scandal on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire in 2001.[13]

Personal life

In 2002, Macfadyen began a relationship with his Spooks co-star Keeley Hawes. They were married in November 2004.[14] The couple have two children.[14][15] Macfadyen is stepfather to Hawes's son from her previous marriage.[16] The couple are patrons of the Lace Market Theatre in Nottingham.[17]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Maybe Baby	Nigel
2001	Enigma	Lt. Cave
2002	The Project	Paul Tibbenham
2003	The Reckoning	King's Justice
2004	In My Father's Den	Paul Prior
2005	Pride & Prejudice	Fitzwilliam Darcy
2006	Middletown	Gabriel Hunter
2007	Grindhouse	Eye Gouging Victim	Segment: Don't
	Death at a Funeral	Daniel Howells
2008	Incendiary	Terence Butcher
	Frost/Nixon	John Birt
2010	Robin Hood	Sheriff of Nottingham
2011	The Three Musketeers	Athos
2012	Anna Karenina	Oblonsky
2014	Lost in Karastan	Emil Forester
2015	The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music	Georg von Trapp
2016	Revolution: New Art for a New World	Vladimir Lenin (voice)	Documentary
2017	The Current War	J. P. Morgan
2018	The Nutcracker and the Four Realms	Benjamin Stahlbaum
2019	The Assistant	Wilcock
2021	Operation Mincemeat	Charles Cholmondeley

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Wuthering Heights	Hareton Earnshaw	Television movie
1999	Warriors	Alan James
2000	Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes	Brian Waller	Episode: "The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes: Part 1"
2001	Perfect Strangers	Daniel Symon	3 episodes
2001	The Way We Live Now	Sir Felix Carbury	4 episodes
2002–2004, 2011	Spooks	Tom Quinn	19 episodes
2007	Mr. Bean's Wedding	The Groom	Short video
2007	Secret Life	Charlie	Television movie
2008	Ashes to Ashes	Gil Hollis	Episode #1.7
2008	Little Dorrit	Arthur Clennam	8 episodes
2008	Agatha Christie's Marple	Inspector Neele	Episode: "A Pocket Full of Rye"
2009	Enid	Hugh Pollock	Television movie
2009	Criminal Justice	Joe Miller	3 episodes
2010	The Pillars of the Earth	Prior Philip	8 episodes
2010	Any Human Heart	Logan Mountstuart	4 episodes
2012–2016	Ripper Street	Det. Insp. Edmund Reid	36 episodes
2013	Ambassadors	Prince of Darkness	3 episodes
2015	The Enfield Haunting	Guy Playfair
2015	The Last Kingdom	Lord Uhtred	Episode #1.1
2016	Churchill's Secret	Randolph Churchill	Television movie
2017	Howards End	Henry Wilcox	4 episodes
2018–present	Succession	Tom Wambsgans	Main role
2020	Quiz	Maj. Charles Ingram	3 episodes
TBA	Stonehouse	John Stonehouse	Main role; upcoming drama[18]

Radio

Year	Title	Author	Notes	Ref.
2000	The Voyage of the Beagle	Charles Darwin	BBC Radio 4	[19]
2001	Trampoline	Meredith Oakes	BBC Radio 4	[20]
2004	The Coma	Alex Garland	audio book	[21]
2004	Getting Away From It: The Island	Tim Pears	BBC Radio 4	[22]
2005	Stories We Could Tell	Tony Parsons	audio book	[23]
2007	The Making of Music	—	BBC Radio 4	[24]

Documentary

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
2003	Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With)	BBC Two	[25]
2004	The Hungerford Massacre	BBC One	[26]
2006	The 9/11 Liars	Channel 4	[27]
2006	Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial	BBC Two	[28]
2007	The Blair Years	BBC One	[29]
2007	Last Party at the Palace	Channel 4	[30]
2008	Dangerous Jobs for Girls	Channel 4	[31]
2008	Words of War	ITV1	[32]
2009	Wine	BBC Four	[33]
2009	Inside MI5	ITV1
2014	Horse Power	Sky Atlantic

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Playwright	Venue	Ref.
1994	The Crimson Island	Dymogatsky	Mikhail Bulgakov	Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts	[34]
	Lorca's Death	Rafael/Intellect	Ben Benison		[35]
	The Feigned Inconstancy	Chevalier	Marivaux		[36]
	The Beggar's Opera	Macheath	John Gay		[37]
1995	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Chief Bromden	Dale Wasserman		[38]
	The Libertine	John Wilmot	Stephen Jeffreys		[39]
	My Funny Valentine	Solo Performer	—
	The Duchess of Malfi	Antonio Bologna	John Webster	Cheek by Jowl	[40]
1996	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Demetrius	Shakespeare	Royal Shakespeare Company	[41]
1998	Much Ado About Nothing	Benedick		Cheek by Jowl	[42]
	The School for Scandal	Charles Surface	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Royal Shakespeare Company	[43]
1999	Battle Royal	Mr. Brougham	Nick Stafford	Royal National Theatre	[44]
2005	Henry IV	Prince Hal	Shakespeare		[45]
2006	Total Eclipse	Paul Verlaine	Christopher Hampton	reading at Royal Court Theatre	[46]
2007	The Pain and the Itch	Clay	Bruce Norris	Royal Court Theatre	[47]
2010	Private Lives	Elyot Chase	Noël Coward	Vaudeville Theatre	[48]
2013	Perfect Nonsense	Jeeves	David and Robert Goodale	Duke of York's Theatre

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2005	British Independent Film Awards	Best Actor	In My Father's Den	Nominated	[49]
2006	London Critics Circle Film Awards	Best Newcomer	Pride & Prejudice	Nominated
2008	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Best Ensemble in a Motion Picture	Frost/Nixon	Nominated
2008	British Academy Television Awards	Best Actor	Secret Life	Nominated
2010		Best Supporting Actor	Criminal Justice	Won
2019	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Succession	Nominated
2020	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Nominated
2022	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Nominated
2022	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Won
2022	British Academy Television Awards	Best Supporting Actor		Won	[50]
2022	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Won	[51]

References

External links

• Matthew Macfadyen at IMDb
• BBC Drama Faces: Matthew Macfadyen

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[de] Matthew Macfadyen

David Matthew Macfadyen (* 17. Oktober 1974 in Great Yarmouth, England) ist ein britischer Schauspieler.

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- [en] Matthew Macfadyen

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[es] Matthew Macfadyen

David Matthew Macfadyen (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk; 17 de octubre de 1974) es un actor británico de cine, teatro y televisión. Es conocido sobre todo por su papel del oficial de inteligencia del MI5, Tom Quinn, en la serie de televisión dramática de la BBC Spooks, por interpretar en 2005 a Fitzwilliam Darcy en Orgullo y prejuicio, adaptación de la novela homónima de Jane Austen. Así como interpretar a Tom Wambsgans en la serie Succession de HBO.

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[ru] Макфэдьен, Мэттью

Дэ́вид Мэ́ттью Макфэ́дьен (англ. David Matthew Macfadyen, род. 17 октября 1974[1][2], Грейт-Ярмут, Норфолк) — английский актёр.

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