
Matthew Macfadyen
Macfadyen made his television debut in 1998 as Hareton Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights. He portrayed Tom Quinn in the BBC One spy series Spooks (2002–2004, 2011), and Inspector Edmund Reid in the BBC mystery series Ripper Street (2012–2016). For his role in Criminal Justice (2009), he received the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also starred in various miniseries playing roles such as Henry Wilcox in Howards End (2017), Charles Ingram in Quiz (2020), John Stonehouse in Stonehouse (2023) and Charles J. Guiteau in Death by Lightning (2025).
In film, Macfadyen is known for his roles in Death at a Funeral (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Anna Karenina (2012), The Assistant (2019), and Operation Mincemeat (2021). In 2024, he played Mr. Paradox in the superhero film Deadpool & Wolverine.
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Known For

Legacy of Spies

The Miniature Wife

Any Human Heart

Death by Lightning

Howards End

Little Dorrit

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

Perfect Strangers

Quiz

Ripper Street

Spooks

Stonehouse

Succession

The Enfield Haunting

The Last Kingdom

The Pillars of the Earth

The Way We Live Now

Warriors
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