Matthew Macfadyen
Also Known As: 매튜 맥퍼딘, 馬修‧麥費狄恩, متیو مک فادین, Դևիդ Մեթյու ՄակՖադյեն, Мэттью Макфэдиен, David Matthew Macfadyen, متیو مکفادین
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 Karenina (2012), The Assistant (2019), and Operation Mincemeat (2021). He made his television debut in 1998 as Hareton Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights. He portrayed Tom Quinn in the BBC One spy series Spooks (2002–04, 2011), and Inspector Edmund Reid in the BBC mystery series Ripper Street (2012–2016). He also starred as Henry Wilcox in Kenneth Lonergan's miniseries Howards End and Charles Ingram in the Stephen Frears' limited series Quiz (2020).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
Birthday: October 17, 1974
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Gender: Male
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In My Father's Den
Overview: Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-11
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Death at a Funeral
Overview: A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-17
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Enigma
Overview: The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-22
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Pride & Prejudice
Overview: A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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Robin Hood
Overview: When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
Genres: Action Adventure History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-12
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Warriors
Overview: If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the story of five young soldiers and their harrowing experiences in the region.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-29
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Holland
Overview: Nancy is a teacher whose life with her husband in Holland, Michigan, tumbles into a twisted tale when she and her colleague become suspicious of a secret.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-09
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Frost/Nixon
Overview: For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans. Likewise, Frost's team harboured doubts about their boss's ability to hold his own. But as the cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-15
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The Hungerford Massacre
Overview: A re-enactment-documentary of the Murder-Suicide rampage by Michael Ryan, carried out on the 19th August 1987, which left 17 dead (including Ryan) and 15 injured in the town of Hungerford, Berkshire.
Genres: Crime Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-07
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Maybe Baby
Overview: Sam and Lucie Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all: good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes, and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing they want more—a baby.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-02
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Enid
Overview: A poignant biography of one of the most successful and wildly-read writers of the 20th century. Her stories enthralled children everywhere but her personal struggles often proved too much.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-16
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Incendiary
Overview: A woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-20
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Middletown
Overview: An overzealous priest returns to his home town and ends up battling against his brother for the heart of the locals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-28
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Anna Karenina
Overview: In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vronsky to whom she is immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Secret Life
Overview: Charlie is white, middle class and a child sex offender. And though he's served his sentence, by his own admission, he continues to pose a significant danger to children. When the rehabilitation centre he has elected to attend is shut down, he is cast adrift in the local community, without guidance or psychological treatment, to struggle alone with his compulsion to re-offend.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-19
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Don't
Overview: In 2007, Wright directed a fake trailer insert for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse, called "Don't", it was a plotless trailer that mocked horror clichés.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-05
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The Reckoning
Overview: In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors now stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-26
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Lost in Karastan
Overview: Washed up British film director, Emil, who is invited by a nascent state to make a national Epic in an obscure Caucasus Republic ruled by an eccentric and corrupt dictator. When down and out Academy award winning British film director Emil Miller receives an invitation to the Embassy of the Autonomous Republic of Karastan, little does he know that he will be embarking on one of the wildest journeys of his already diverse and colourful career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-23
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The Project
Overview: The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of university to Westminster's corridors of power. Their journey takes us deep into the world of New Labour headquarters in Millbank, and later Downing Street, exposing the machinations behind the party's transformation into the sharp, media-aware voice of professional, middle-England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-10
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The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
Overview: Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of a well-known musical family, overcomes many obstacles to pursue her musical career and move to the United States.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-11-12
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Churchill's Secret
Overview: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-29
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Deadpool & Wolverine
Overview: A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. But when his homeworld faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctant Wolverine.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-24
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Overview: When Clara’s mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she embarks on a journey to four secret realms—where she discovers her greatest strength could change the world.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-26
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The Current War
Overview: Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-01
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If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
Overview: A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home before the assault.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-01
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Gipsy boy Heathcliffe is adopted by a god-fearing landowner in northern England and grows up as the soul-mate of the daughter, Cathy Earnshaw. When father dies, stern son Hindley returns and bans Heathcliffe to the stables; when they spy upon their upper class neighbors, Edgar Linton sends the dogs upon them and chases Heath but starts an affair -love comes only from him- with her. When Hindley's socialite wife Frances dies in childbirth, he is completely embittered, becomes a drunk unable to care for his son Hareton and has to sell Wuthering Hights- to Heathcliffe. After a misunderstanding Cathy marries Linton, Heath retorts by a loveless match with his sister. Even Cathy's death doesn't stop the cycle of spite, grief and harm so it poisons the next generation's lives as well while she keeps haunting Heathcliffe
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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Revolution: New Art for a New World
Overview: Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, the film brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life. It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich - pioneers who flourished in response to the challenge of building a new art for a new world, only to be broken by implacable authority after 15 short years and silenced by Stalin's Socialist Realism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-08
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24 Hours on Earth
Overview: The changing position of the sun in the sky affects the behaviour of animals and plants across our planet. From the moment it rises, animals are waiting, ready to take advantage of the opportunities that the sun creates. A quirky chameleon uses solar power to survive, while a family of lemurs get a morning heat fix. But, as the day progresses and the sun climbs higher in the sky, becoming more powerful, animals must also react as it pushes them toward moments of crisis. As the sun sets and its great heat and light are extinguished, a night-time world wakes, full of characters who have carved a niche in the darkness. But even in the dead of night, the sun is not lost. Its rays are reflected in the moon, our 'ghost sun.' We take the rising and setting of the sun for granted, but it is the ultimate game changer. The way the natural world responds will be the difference between success and failure, life or death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-21
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The Assistant
Overview: A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-31
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Mr. Bean's Wedding
Overview: In this Comic Relief sketch, the lovable yet clumsy Mr. Bean finds himself at the wedding of an unsuspecting couple, leading to mishaps, mayhem, and a very angry father of the bride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-16
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Operation Mincemeat
Overview: In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-01
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-31
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Grindhouse
Overview: Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers before each segment.
Genres: Thriller Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-06
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
Overview: Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, and director Shawn Levy sit down and spill the proverbial beans about how "Deadpool & Wolverine" was conceived, carried to term, and then birthed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-12
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