Matthew Macfadyen
Macfadyen in 2007
Born
David Matthew Macfadyen

(1974-10-17) 17 October 1974
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
Alma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art
OccupationActor
Years active1994–present
Spouse
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(m. 2004)​
Children2

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) and for his role as Tom Wambsgans in the HBO drama series Succession (2018–2023). He has received several awards including a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and two BAFTA Television Awards.

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). For his role in Criminal Justice (2009) he received a BAFTA Television Award. He also starred various miniseries playing roles such as Henry Wilcox in Howards End (2017), Charles Ingram in Quiz (2020), and John Stonehouse in Stonehouse (2023).

Early life and education

Macfadyen was born on 17 October 1974[1][2] in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the son of Meinir (née Owen), a drama teacher and former actress, and Martin Macfadyen, an oil engineer.[3][4][5] His paternal grandparents were Scottish and his maternal grandparents were Welsh.[3][6] Macfadyen was brought up in a number of places, including Jakarta, Indonesia, as a result of his father's occupation.[3]

He attended schools in England, including in Louth, Lincolnshire, as well as in Scotland and Indonesia. He went to Oakham School in Rutland before being accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) 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".[7] He studied at RADA from 1992 to 1995.

Career

After leaving RADA, 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.[8] 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.

A bust of Mr. Darcy played by Matthew Macfadyen in Pride & Prejudice

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.[9] 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.[10][11][12]

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".[13] 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.

From 2018 to 2023, he starred 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.[14]

In 2023, Macfadyen was cast in Deadpool 3.[15]

Personal life

In 2002, Macfadyen began a relationship with his Spooks co-star Keeley Hawes. They were married in November 2004.[16] The couple has two children.[16][17] Macfadyen is stepfather to Hawes's son from her previous marriage.[18] Macfadyen and Hawes are patrons of the Lace Market Theatre in Nottingham.[19]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2000 Maybe Baby Nigel
2001 Enigma Lt. Cave
2002 The Project Paul Tibbenham
2004 The Reckoning King's Justice
In My Father's Den Paul Prior
2005 Pride & Prejudice Fitzwilliam Darcy
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
2024 Deadpool 3 Filming[20]
TBA Holland, Michigan Post-production

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998Wuthering HeightsHareton EarnshawTelevision movie
1999WarriorsAlan James
2000Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock HolmesBrian WallerEpisode: "The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes: Part 1"
2001Perfect StrangersDaniel Symon3 episodes
2001The Way We Live NowSir Felix Carbury4 episodes
2002–2004, 2011SpooksTom Quinn19 episodes
2007Mr. Bean's WeddingThe Groom Short video
2007Secret LifeCharlieTelevision movie
2008Ashes to AshesGil HollisEpisode #1.7
2008Little DorritArthur Clennam8 episodes
2008Agatha Christie's MarpleInspector NeeleEpisode: "A Pocket Full of Rye"
2009EnidHugh PollockTelevision movie
2009Criminal JusticeJoe Miller3 episodes
2010The Pillars of the EarthPrior Philip8 episodes
2010Any Human HeartLogan Mountstuart4 episodes
2012–2016Ripper StreetDet. Insp. Edmund Reid36 episodes
2013AmbassadorsPrince of Darkness3 episodes
2015The Enfield HauntingGuy Playfair
2015The Last KingdomLord UhtredEpisode #1.1
2016Churchill's SecretRandolph ChurchillTelevision movie
2017Howards EndHenry Wilcox4 episodes
2018–2023SuccessionTom WambsgansMain role
2020QuizMaj. Charles Ingram3 episodes
2023StonehouseJohn StonehouseMain role[21]

Radio

YearTitleAuthorNotesRef.
2000The Voyage of the BeagleCharles DarwinBBC Radio 4[22]
2001TrampolineMeredith OakesBBC Radio 4[23]
2004The ComaAlex Garlandaudio book[24]
2004Getting Away From It: The IslandTim PearsBBC Radio 4[25]
2005Stories We Could TellTony Parsonsaudio book[26]
2007The Making of Music—BBC Radio 4[27]

Documentary

YearTitleNotesRef.
2003Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With)BBC Two[28]
2004The Hungerford MassacreBBC One[29]
2006The 9/11 LiarsChannel 4[30]
2006Nuremberg: Nazis on TrialBBC Two[31]
2007The Blair YearsBBC One[32]
2007Last Party at the PalaceChannel 4[33]
2008Dangerous Jobs for GirlsChannel 4[34]
2008Words of WarITV1[35]
2009WineBBC Four[36]
2009Inside MI5ITV1
2014Horse PowerSky Atlantic

Theatre

Year Title Role Playwright Venue Ref.
1994The Crimson IslandDymogatskyMikhail BulgakovRoyal Academy of Dramatic Arts[37]
Lorca's DeathRafael/IntellectBen Benison[38]
The Feigned InconstancyChevalierMarivaux[39]
The Beggar's OperaMacheathJohn Gay[40]
1995One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestChief BromdenDale Wasserman[41]
The LibertineJohn WilmotStephen Jeffreys[42]
My Funny ValentineSolo Performer—
The Duchess of MalfiAntonio BolognaJohn WebsterCheek by Jowl[43]
1996A Midsummer Night's DreamDemetriusShakespeareRoyal Shakespeare Company[44]
1998Much Ado About NothingBenedickCheek by Jowl[45]
The School for ScandalCharles SurfaceRichard Brinsley SheridanRoyal Shakespeare Company[46]
1999Battle RoyalMr. BroughamNick StaffordRoyal National Theatre[47]
2005Henry IVPrince HalShakespeare[48]
2006Total EclipsePaul VerlaineChristopher Hamptonreading at Royal Court Theatre[49]
2007The Pain and the ItchClayBruce NorrisRoyal Court Theatre[50]
2010Private LivesElyot ChaseNoël CowardVaudeville Theatre[51]
2013Perfect NonsenseJeevesDavid and Robert GoodaleDuke 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 [52]
2006 London Critics Circle Film Awards Best Newcomer Pride & Prejudice Nominated
2008 Screen Actors Guild Awards Best Performance by a Cast 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 [53]
2022 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Won [54]
2023 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Pending [55]
2024 Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Won [56]
2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Pending [57]
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Pending

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