Matthew Goode

Acting · Born 1978-04-03 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK

Biography

Matthew Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English 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 won 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 the comics by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. He then starred…

Filmography

• Imagine Me & You as Heck
• Watchmen as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
• A Single Man as Jim
• The House as Raymond (voice)
• Belle as Captain Sir John Lindsay
• Match Point as Tom Hewett
• The Imitation Game as Hugh Alexander
• The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society as Sidney Stark
• Official Secrets as Peter Beaumont
• The Duke as Jeremy Hutchinson

TV

• The Offer as Robert Evans
• Downton Abbey as Henry Talbot
• The Crown as Tony Armstrong-Jones
• Agatha Christie's Marple as Patrick Simmons
• A Discovery of Witches as Matthew Clairmont
• Dept. Q as DCI Carl Morck
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• GMTV as Self
• Birdsong as Captain Gray
• Dancing on the Edge as Stanley Mitchell