Matthew Goode

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Matthew Goode Biography

Became known for playing the role of Adrian Veidt in the film Watchmen alongside Billy Crudup. Other notable film credits include The Imitation Game, The Lookout, A Single Man, and Stoker.

He attended the University of Birmingham and Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

He earned a nomination for Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Television Film for his role in the British drama Dancing on the Edge.

He married Sophie Dymoke in 2007. Together they have two daughters and a son.

He played the love interest of Mandy Moore in the film Chasing Liberty.

Matthew William 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 DC Comics’ limited series of the same name. 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.

Goode played Peter Lynley, the brother of Inspector Lynley in the BBC production Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Suitable Vengeance and co-starred in the TV film Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, based on the Gregory Maguire novel of the same name and William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. In 2004, Goode made his American film debut opposite Mandy Moore in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty.

Goode has been in a relationship with Sophie Dymoke since 2005. They married in 2014. They have two daughters, Matilda Eve (b. March 2009) and Teddie Eleanor Rose (b. September 2013), and a son, Ralph (b. August 2015).

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, for which he earned a nomination for Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Television Film at the Satellite Awards. 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 Star in a Drama Series. He currently stars in Sky One’s fantasy-romance series, A Discovery of Witches, as Professor Matthew Clairmont and is filming Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman prequel, The King’s Man.

In 2008, Goode starred in the drama film Brideshead Revisited as Charles Ryder, based on Evelyn Waugh’s novel of the same name. In 2009, Goode co-starred opposite Malin Akerman in Zack Snyder’s superhero film Watchmen as Ozymandias/Adrian Veidt, and co-starred opposite Colin Firth in the drama film A Single Man, based on Christopher Isherwood’s novel of the same name. In 2010, he co-starred opposite Amy Adams in the romantic comedy Leap Year.

After appearing in multiple films in the mid-2010s, he appeared in 2016’s Allied. He began working on WGN’s production of Roadside Picnic series based on the Strugatsky novel in autumn 2016, but the pilot was cancelled.

Also in 2013, Goode co-starred as George Wickham opposite Matthew Rhys in the three-part BBC murder mystery miniseries Death Comes to Pemberley, based on P. D. James’ novel of the same name, and a spin-off of the 1995 drama miniseries Pride and Prejudice to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s novel of the same name. In 2014, he appeared in the historical thriller The Imitation Game as Hugh Alexander, a British Second World War cryptanalyst and chess champion.

In 2013, Goode played the lead in the BBC Two drama Dancing on the Edge, as magazine columnist Stanley Mitchell. That same year, he co-starred opposite Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman in the psychological thriller film Stoker.

In 2014, Goode co-starred in the ITV drama Downton Abbey during the Season 5 Christmas special “A Moorland Holiday” as Henry Talbot. He returned to Downton Abbey in October 2015 beginning in the fourth episode of the sixth season. Goode also made a brief appearance in the Downton Abbey film which was released in 2019.

In March 2014, Goode joined the cast of the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as Finley “Finn” Polmar, a state prosecutor. Replacing Will Gardner during the fifth season, he made his debut in the 15th episode, “Dramatics, Your Honor”, in which Josh Charles’s character was killed off. In May 2015, Goode left The Good Wife after the sixth season’s finale.

In 2017, Goode began production on a television adaptation of Deborah Harkness’s bestselling All Souls trilogy for Sky One in the United Kingdom. The show, titled A Discovery of Witches, takes its title from the series’ first book. He plays the lead role of Professor Matthew Clairmont, an Oxford molecular biologist and vampire. The show was first broadcast in the UK on 14 September 2018, and has been renewed for two more series based on the strength of its first airing in the United Kingdom where it was consistently the network’s most-watched show each week for its 8-episode run.

Early in 2019, it was announced that Goode would be joining an all-star cast for the prequel to Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman series, entitled The King’s Man. His role is still unknown, but it is reported to take place sometime around the early 20th century and will cover the origin story of the Kingsman spy organization from their time as ordinary London tailors. The film is scheduled for a 14 February 2020 release date.

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