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    Matthew Goode

    1978-04-03 (45 years old) in Exeter, Devon, England, UK

    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.

    Movies

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    Abigail
    0 %|Apr 17, 2024
    Horror, Thriller
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    Freud's Last Session
    66 %|Dec 22, 2023
    Drama
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    Medieval
    70.4 %|Sep 8, 2022
    Action, Drama, History
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    The House
    70 %|Jan 14, 2022
    Animation, Drama, Comedy, Horror, Fantasy
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    The King's Man
    67.71 %|Dec 22, 2021
    Action, Comedy, Adventure, Thriller
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    Silent Night
    61 %|Dec 3, 2021
    Comedy, Science Fiction, Horror
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    The Colour Room
    68 %|Nov 12, 2021
    Drama
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    The Duke
    70 %|Jul 23, 2021
    Comedy, Drama, History
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    Four Kids and It
    61 %|Apr 3, 2020
    Family, Fantasy
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    Downton Abbey
    71 %|Sep 12, 2019
    Drama, Romance, History
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    Official Secrets
    72 %|Aug 30, 2019
    Thriller, History, Drama
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    The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
    74 %|Apr 19, 2018
    Romance, Drama, History
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    Birthmarked
    57 %|Mar 30, 2018
    Comedy
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    The Hatton Garden Job
    55 %|Apr 14, 2017
    Crime, Action, Thriller
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    The Sense of an Ending
    64 %|Mar 10, 2017
    Mystery, Drama
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    Allied
    68 %|Nov 17, 2016
    Action, Drama, War, Romance, Thriller
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    Self/less
    64.11 %|Jul 10, 2015
    Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Action
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    Pressure
    57 %|Jun 4, 2015
    Drama, Thriller
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    The Imitation Game
    80.05000000000001 %|Nov 14, 2014
    History, Drama, Thriller, War
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    Belle
    71 %|May 1, 2013
    Drama
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    Stoker
    67 %|Feb 28, 2013
    Drama, Horror, Thriller
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    Burning Man
    60 %|Sep 10, 2011
    Comedy, Drama, Romance
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    Cemetery Junction
    65 %|Apr 14, 2010
    Drama, Comedy
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    Leap Year
    69 %|Jan 8, 2010
    Romance, Comedy
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    A Single Man
    73 %|Dec 11, 2009
    Drama, Romance
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    Watchmen
    73.36 %|Mar 4, 2009
    Action, Mystery, Science Fiction
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    Brideshead Revisited
    64 %|Jul 25, 2008
    Drama, Romance
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    The Lookout
    66 %|Mar 9, 2007
    Crime, Drama, Thriller
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    Copying Beethoven
    64 %|Sep 10, 2006
    Drama
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    My Family and Other Animals
    63 %|Dec 27, 2005
    TV Movie, Comedy, Drama, Family
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    Match Point
    73.65 %|Oct 26, 2005
    Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
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    Imagine Me & You
    76 %|Sep 9, 2005
    Drama, Comedy, Romance
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    Chasing Liberty
    62 %|Jan 9, 2004
    Comedy, Romance
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    South from Granada
    59 %|Jan 9, 2003
    Drama, Comedy, Romance
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    Magik
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    Fantasy, Animation
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    Destroyer
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    Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
    70 %|Mar 10, 2002
    Fantasy, Drama, Comedy

    Series

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    The Offer
    80 %|Apr 28, 2022
    Drama
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    A Discovery of Witches
    78.63000000000001 %|Sep 14, 2018
    Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
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    Ordeal by Innocence
    69 %|Apr 1, 2018
    Crime, Drama, Mystery
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    The Crown
    82.28999999999999 %|Nov 4, 2016
    Drama
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    Roots
    69 %|May 30, 2016
    Drama, Action & Adventure
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    Late Night with Seth Meyers
    56 %|Feb 25, 2014
    Talk, Comedy
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    Death Comes to Pemberley
    68 %|Dec 26, 2013
    Drama, Mystery
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    Dancing on the Edge
    67 %|Feb 4, 2013
    Drama
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    The Poison Tree
    66 %|Dec 10, 2012
    Drama
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    Birdsong
    69 %|Jan 22, 2012
    Drama, War & Politics
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    Downton Abbey
    81 %|Sep 26, 2010
    Drama
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    The Good Wife
    76 %|Sep 22, 2009
    Drama
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    Agatha Christie's Marple
    77 %|Dec 12, 2004
    Drama, Crime, Mystery
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    He Knew He Was Right
    78 %|Apr 18, 2004
    Drama
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    The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
    71 %|Apr 8, 2002
    Crime, Drama
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    GMTV
    57 %|Jan 1, 1993
    News
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    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
    54 %|May 25, 1992
    Talk, Comedy
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    Roadside Picnic
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    Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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    Department Q
    0 %|Invalid Date
    Crime, Drama