Matthew Goode
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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 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 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. 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 Actor in a Drama Series. As of 2018, he stars in Sky One's fantasy-romance series, A Discovery of Witches, as Professor Matthew Clairmont.
Known For
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The One Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Downton Abbey
GMTV
Agatha Christie's Marple
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
The Crown
He Knew He Was Right
The Good Wife
Downton Abbey
Belle
Abigail
Ordeal by Innocence
Allied
Medieval
Official Secrets
Self/less
Watchmen
Match Point
The King's Man
My Family and Other Animals
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Death Comes to Pemberley
The Imitation Game
Imagine Me & You
Stoker
Birdsong
Silent Night
Pressure
Leap Year
The Offer
Chasing Liberty
A Discovery of Witches
Brideshead Revisited
Dept. Q
Four Kids and It
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