Matthew Macfadyen

ActorProducer Oct 17 (age 51) Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK 1992–2026 (34 year career)

6.7 avg rating

Biography

David Matthew Macfadyen (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). He starred as Tom Wambsgans in the HBO drama series Succession (2018–2023), for which he has received two Primetime Emmy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Macfadyen is also known for his roles in films such as Death at a Funeral (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Anna Karenin…

Known For

Film

Pride & Prejudice

Mr. Darcy

Film

Deadpool & Wolverine

Mr. Paradox

Film

Succession

Tom Wambsgans

Film

Robin Hood

Sheriff of Nottingham

Film

Grindhouse

Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)

Film

Frost/Nixon

John Birt

Film

Death at a Funeral

Daniel

Film

Anna Karenina

Oblonsky

Filmography

Acting (67)

Movies (35)

Holland

as Fred Vandergroot

Deadpool & Wolverine

as Mr. Paradox

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine

2024

as Self - Mr. Paradox

6.7

Operation Mincemeat

2022

as Charles Cholmondeley

6.5

The Assistant

2020

as Wilcock

6.3

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

2018

as Benjamin Stahlbaum

6.1

The Current War

2018

as J.P. Morgan

6.7

Revolution: New Art for a New World

2017

as Vladimir Lenin (voice)

7.5

Churchill's Secret

2016

as Randolph Churchill

6.3

The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music

as Georg von Trapp

Lost in Karastan

as Emil Forester

24 Hours on Earth

as Self - Narrator (voice)

6.3

If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day

2014

as Narrator (voice)

Anna Karenina

as Oblonsky

The Three Musketeers

as Athos

Robin Hood

as Sheriff of Nottingham

6.4

Enid

2009

as Hugh Pollock

6.4

Inside MI5: The Real Spooks

2009

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Frost/Nixon

as John Birt

Incendiary

as Terrance

Middletown

as Gabriel Hunter

Grindhouse

as Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited)

Death at a Funeral

as Daniel

Mr. Bean's Wedding

as Daniel

Secret Life

as Charlie

Pride & Prejudice

as Mr. Darcy

The Reckoning

as King’s Justice

The Hungerford Massacre

2004

as Himself (Narratior)

In My Father's Den

2004

as Paul Prior

7.0

The Project

2002

as Paul Tibbenham

Enigma

as Cave

Maybe Baby

as Nigel

Warriors

as Pte. Alan James

Wuthering Heights

as Hareton Earnshaw

Séance on a Wet Afternoon

Television (32)

The Miniature Wife

2026 Upcoming

as Les

Apr 9

Death by Lightning

as Charles Guiteau

Stonehouse

as John Stonehouse

Remembers…

as Self

Quiz

2020

as Charles Ingram

6.8

The Kelly Clarkson Show

as Self

Succession

as Tom Wambsgans

Howards End

as Henry Wilcox

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self

The Last Kingdom

as Lord Uhtred

The Enfield Haunting

as Guy Lyon Playfair

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

as Self

5.9

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

Ambassadors

as POD

Ripper Street

as Edmund Reid

The Pillars of the Earth

as Prior Phillip

Any Human Heart

as Logan Mountstuart

Ashes to Ashes

as Gil Hollis

Criminal Justice

as Joe Miller

Little Dorrit

as Arthur Clennam

The Blair Years

as Narrator

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

2006

as Narrator

6.0

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Inspector Neele

Spooks

as Tom Quinn

Spooks

as Tom Quinn

The Project

as Paul Tibbenham

The Way We Live Now

as Sir Felix Carbury

Perfect Strangers

as Daniel

Warriors

as Pte. Alan James

HBO First Look

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Legacy of Spies

as George Smiley

Crew (4)

Movies (1)

Séance on a Wet Afternoon

Executive Producer

Television (3)

The Miniature Wife

2026 Upcoming

Executive Producer

Apr 9

Stonehouse

2023

Executive Producer

6.3

Legacy of Spies

Executive Producer