1. Matthew William Goode was born on 3 April 1978 and is a British actor.
21 Facts About Matthew Goode
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Matthew Goode then appeared in a string of supporting roles in films, such as Woody Allen's Match Point, the romantic comedy Imagine Me and You, and the period drama Copying Beethoven.
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Matthew Goode earned praise for his performances as Charles Ryder in the 2008 film adaptation of the novel Brideshead Revisited and as Ozymandias in the superhero film Watchmen.
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Matthew Goode then starred in the romantic comedy Leap Year and Australian drama Burning Man, the latter earning him a nomination for Best Actor at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards.
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In 2017, Matthew Goode portrayed Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in the second season of the biographical drama series The Crown, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
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Matthew Goode's father, Anthony, was a geologist and his mother, Jennifer, is a nurse and amateur theatre director.
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Matthew Goode is the youngest of five children with a brother, two half-brothers, and a half-sister, television presenter Sally Meen, from his mother's previous marriage.
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Matthew Goode grew up in the village of Clyst St Mary, near Exeter.
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Matthew Goode was educated at Exeter School, an independent school in Exeter, Devon, followed by the University of Birmingham and London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Matthew 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.
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In 2004, Matthew Goode made his American film debut opposite Mandy Moore in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty.
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In 2008, Matthew Goode starred as Charles Ryder in the drama film Brideshead Revisited, based on Evelyn Waugh's novel of the same name.
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In 2013, Matthew Goode played the lead in the BBC Two drama Dancing on the Edge, as magazine columnist Stanley Mitchell.
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In March 2014, Matthew Goode joined the cast of the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as Finley "Finn" Polmar, a state prosecutor.
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In May 2015, Matthew Goode left The Good Wife after the sixth season's finale.
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In 2014, Matthew Goode co-starred in the ITV drama Downton Abbey during the Season 5 Christmas special "A Moorland Holiday" as Henry Talbot.
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Matthew Goode returned to Downton Abbey in October 2015 beginning in the fourth episode of the sixth season.
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Matthew Goode made a brief appearance in the Downton Abbey film which was released in 2019.
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Matthew Goode began working on WGN's production of Roadside Picnic series based on the Strugatsky novel in autumn 2016, but the pilot was cancelled.
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In 2017, Matthew Goode began production on a television adaptation of Deborah Harkness's bestselling All Souls trilogy for Sky One in the United Kingdom.
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Matthew Goode plays the lead role of Professor Matthew Clairmont, an Oxford molecular biologist and vampire.