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Matthew William Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's television film Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty (2004), for which he received a nomination at the Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male. He then appeared in a string of supporting roles in films, such as Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), the romantic comedy Imagine Me and You (2006), and the period drama Copying Beethoven (2006). He 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 (2009). He then starred in the romantic comedy Leap Year (2010) and the Australian drama Burning Man (2011), the latter earning him nominations for Best Actor at both the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards and the AACTA Awards. 

His other 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). Goode has also appeared in television series, including Henry Talbot in the historical drama Downton Abbey, Finley "Finn" Polmar in the legal drama The Good Wife, and a music journalist in the drama Dancing on the Edge. In 2017, 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. From 2018–2022, Goode starred in the fantasy romance series, A Discovery of Witches. In 2022, he starred as famed Paramount studio head Robert Evans in The Offer, a miniseries about the making of the classic 1972 gangster film The Godfather.

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Interesting facts

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    In August 2015, the actor and his wife had a son, Ralph.

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    Matthew is the youngest of five children in the Good family. His father is a geologist, and his mother is a nurse.

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    Laurence Fox is Matthew's best friend. Matthew was the best man at the wedding of Laurence and actress Billie Piper.

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    The actor studied drama at the University of Birmingham. He continued his education at the prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

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    In 2009, Matthew Goode and his girlfriend Sophie Dymoke became parents: on March 1, they had a daughter. She was named Matilda Eve Goode.

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    In September 2013, Matthew and Sophie Dymoke had their second daughter, Teddy Eleanor Rose Good.

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    Full name: Matthew William Good.

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    Nickname: goody (candy, sweet).

Family & relationships

Sophie Dumouck wife · Children: 3
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