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…
Movies & TV Shows
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The Imitation Game (2014) — Hugh Alexander
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Watchmen (2009) — Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
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The King's Man (2021) — Morton
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Allied (2016) — Guy Sangster
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Match Point (2005) — Tom Hewett
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Self/less (2015) — Albright
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Stoker (2013) — Charlie Stoker
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The Crown (2016) — Tony Armstrong-Jones
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Leap Year (2010) — Declan
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Abigail (2024) — Father
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A Single Man (2009) — Jim
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) — Sidney Stark
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Downton Abbey (2019) — Henry Talbot
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Downton Abbey (2010) — Henry Talbot
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The House (2022) — Raymond (voice)
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Official Secrets (2019) — Peter Beaumont
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Imagine Me & You (2006) — Heck
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A Discovery of Witches (2018) — Matthew Clairmont
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Belle (2013) — Captain Sir John Lindsay
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The Lookout (2007) — Gary Spargo
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The Good Wife (2009) — Finn Polmar
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Chasing Liberty (2004) — Ben Calder
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Silent Night (2021) — Simon
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Medieval (2022) — král Zikmund
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Dept. Q (2025) — DCI Carl Morck
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The Duke (2021) — Jeremy Hutchinson
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Cemetery Junction (2010) — Mike Ramsay
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The Offer (2022) — Robert Evans
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Pressure (2015) — Mitchell
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The Sense of an Ending (2017) — Mr. Joe Hunt
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Copying Beethoven (2006) — Martin Bauer
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Freud's Last Session (2023) — C. S. Lewis
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Roots (2016) — William Waller
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Brideshead Revisited (2008) — Charles Ryder
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Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) — Patrick Simmons
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Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) — Self
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Ordeal by Innocence (2018) — Philip Durrant
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The Hatton Garden Job (2017) — XXX
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
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Death Comes to Pemberley (2013) — George Wickham