Matthew Macfadyen (born October 17, 1974) is an English actor who portrayed Ealdorman Uhtred in The Last Kingdom.
Biography[]
David Matthew Macfadyen was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to Meinir (Owen), a drama teacher and actress, and Martin Macfadyen, an oil executive. He is of Scottish and Welsh descent. Because of his father's career, he spent a part of his childhood in Indonesia, before finishing his education back in England and winning a place at RADA in 1992. He won critical acclaim in the UK with his work with the stage company Cheek By Jowl in the 1990s and was well established as a stage actor when he made his first TV appearance in Wuthering Heights.
A couple more TV roles followed but it was his role as Tom Quinn, head of Section D, in the hit BBC series MI-5 that really made his name at home. And, indeed, established his home - he met his wife, Keeley Hawes, while working on the show. A steady stream of TV and film work followed, with his performance as Mr Darcy in Pride & Prejudice firmly establishing his name worldwide.
He currently stars as Tom Wambsgans in the HBO series Succession, for which he has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and in 2022, a Primetime Emmy Award win for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Filmography[]
Films[]
- Wuthering Heights as Hareton Earnshaw (TV Movie, 1998)
- Maybe Baby as Nigel (2000)
- Enigma as Cave (2001)
- The Project as Paul Tibbenham (TV Movie, 2002)
- The Reckoning as King's Justice (2002)
- In My Father's Den as Paul Prior (2004)
- Pride & Prejudice as Mr. Darcy (2005)
- Middletown as Gabriel Hunter (2006)
- Death at a Funeral as Daniel (2007)
- Grindhouse as Hatchet Victim (uncredited) (2007)
- Secret Life as Charlie (TV Movie, 2007)
- Incendiary as Terrence Butcher (2008)
- Frost/Nixon as John Birt (2008)
- Enid as Hugh Pollock (TV Movie, 2009)
- Robin Hood as Sheriff of Nottingham (2010)
- The Three Musketeers as Athos (2011)
- Anna Karenina as Oblonsky (2012)
- Lost in Karastan as Emil Forester (2014)
- If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day as Narrator (voice) (TV Movie, 2014)
- The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music as Captain Georg von Trapp (2015)
- Churchill's Secret as Randolph (TV Movie, 2016)
- Revolution: New Art For A New World as Vladimir Lennin (voice) (2016)
- The Current War: Director's Cut as J.P. Morgan (2017)
- The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as Mr. Stahlbaum (2018)
- The Assistant as Wilcock (2019)
- Operation Mincemeat as Charles Cholmondeley (2021)
TV Series[]
- Warriors as Pte. Alan James (1999)
- Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes as Waller (2000)
- Perfect Strangers as Daniel (2001)
- The Way We Live Now as Sir Felix Carbury (2001)
- Comic Relief 2007: The Big One as Daniel (TV Special, 2007)
- Ashes to Ashes as Gil Hollis (2008)
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Inspector Neele (2008)
- Little Dorrit as Arthur Clennam (2008)
- Criminal Justice as Joe Miller (2009)
- Criminal Justice II: Peter Moffat Interviews (2009)
- The Pillars of the Earth as Philip (2010)
- Any Human Heart as Logan Mountstuart (Middle) (2010)
- MI-5 as Tom Quinn (2002-2004, 2011)
- Ambassadors as POD (2013)
- The Enfield Haunting as Guy Playfair (2015)
- The Last Kingdom as Ealdorman Uhtred (2015)
- Ripper Street as Det. Insp. Edmund Reid (2012-2016)
- Howards End as Henry Wilcox (2017)
- Quiz as Charles Ingram (2020)
- Stonehouse as John Stonehouse (2023)
- Succession as Tom Wambsgans (2018-2023)
Video Games[]
- Robin Hood's Quest as Robin Hood (voice) (2007)
Shorts[]
- Pride & Prejudice: Alternate US Ending as Mr. Darcy (uncredited) (Video, 2006)
- Mr. Bean's Wedding as The Groom (TV Short, 2007)
- Enid: Deleted Scenes as Hugh Pollock (uncredited) (Video, 2009)
- ITVX: Smile (Video, 2022)
Appearances[]
The Last Kingdom[]
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