Cast & creator
Matthew Macfadyen
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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).
Also known as: 매튜 맥퍼딘, 馬修‧麥費狄恩, متیو مک فادین, Դևիդ Մեթյու ՄակՖադյեն, Мэттью Макфэдиен
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film credits
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television credits
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1944–2026 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (74)
Showing 74 of 74 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Deadpool & Wolverine
Mr. Paradox
2024
The Last Kingdom
Lord Uhtred
2015
Succession
Tom Wambsgans
2018
Spooks
Tom Quinn
2002
Agatha Christie's Marple
Inspector Neele
2004
Pride & Prejudice
Mr. Darcy
2005
Ripper Street
Edmund Reid
2012
The Pillars of the Earth
Prior Phillip
2010
The Miniature Wife
Les Littlejohn
2026The Miniature Wife
Executive Producer
2026
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Benjamin Stahlbaum
2018
Ashes to Ashes
Gil Hollis
2008
HBO First Look
Self
1992
Remembers…
Self
2022
Robin Hood
Sheriff of Nottingham
2010
The Three Musketeers
Athos
2011
Death by Lightning
Charles Guiteau
2025
Anna Karenina
Oblonsky
2012
Operation Mincemeat
Charles Cholmondeley
2022
Little Dorrit
Arthur Clennam
2008
Criminal Justice
Joe Miller
2008
Frost/Nixon
John Birt
2008
Death at a Funeral
Daniel
2007
The Current War
J.P. Morgan
2018
Holland
Fred Vandergroot
2025
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
Self - Mr. Paradox
2024
The Assistant
Wilcock
2020
Howards End
Henry Wilcox
2017
Any Human Heart
Logan Mountstuart (Middle)
2010
Quiz
Charles Ingram
2020Legacy of Spies
George Smiley
Legacy of Spies
Executive Producer
Stonehouse
John Stonehouse
2023Stonehouse
Executive Producer
2023
Grindhouse
Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
2007
Ambassadors
POD
2013
The Way We Live Now
Sir Felix Carbury
2001
The Blair Years
Narrator
2007
Warriors
Private Alan James
1999
The Enfield Haunting
Guy Lyon Playfair
2015
The Project
Paul Tibbenham
2002Behind the Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions
Self
2025
Perfect Strangers
Daniel
2001
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
Narrator
2006
Enigma
Cave
2001
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Billy Savage
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Executive Producer
In My Father's Den
Paul Prior
2004
Incendiary
Terrance
2008
The Reckoning
King’s Justice
2004
Maybe Baby
Nigel
2000
Mr. Bean's Wedding
Daniel
2007
Churchill's Secret
Randolph Churchill
2016
The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
Georg von Trapp
2015
Wuthering Heights
Hareton Earnshaw
1998
Middletown
Gabriel Hunter
2007
Revolution: New Art for a New World
Vladimir Lenin (voice)
2017You Are Here
Michael
You Are Here
Executive Producer
Enid
Hugh Pollock
2009
Lost in Karastan
Emil Forester
2014If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
Narrator (voice)
2014
24 Hours on Earth
Self - Narrator (voice)
2014Warriors
Pte. Alan James
1999Secret Life
Charlie
2007
Inside MI5: The Real Spooks
Self - Narrator (voice)
2009
The Hungerford Massacre
Himself (Narratior)
2004The Project
Paul Tibbenham
2002