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Matthew Macfadyen
Macfadyen in London, 2007
Born
David Matthew Macfadyen
OccupationActor
SpouseKeeley Hawes (2004-)

David Matthew Macfadyen (born 17 October 1974) is a BAFTA award-winning English actor, known for his role as MI5 intelligence officer Tom Quinn in the BBC television drama series Spooks (also known as MI-5) and for starring as Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice.

Early life

Macfadyen was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the son of Meinir, a drama teacher and former actress, and Martin Macfadyen, an oil worker.[1][2] His paternal grandparents were Scottish and his maternal grandparents were natives of Wales.[1][3] Macfadyen was raised in several locations, including Jakarta, Indonesia, because of his father's profession.[1] He attended schools in England (including in Louth, Lincolnshire), Scotland, and Indonesia, and went to Oakham School in Rutland, before being accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at age 17.

Career

After having studied at the RADA from 1992 to 1995, Macfadyen quickly became a well-known actor in British theatre due primarily to his work with the stage company Cheek by Jowl, for whom he played Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. His Benedick was particularly memorable, played as an officer-class buffoon with a moustache and a braying laugh. In 2005, he played to further great acclaim the part of Prince Hal in Henry IV, Parts One and Two at the Royal National Theatre, with Michael Gambon in the lead. In 2007, he returned to the stage, portraying an American, Clay, a stay at home father with a liberal attitude in the play The Pain and the Itch.

Macfadyen's major TV breakthrough came when he appeared as Hareton Earnshaw in a television adaptation of the Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights, screened on the ITV network in 1998. Further television drama work followed, including starring roles in the dramas Warriors (1999) and The Way We Live Now (2001), both for the BBC. Also in 2001, he earned much critical acclaim for his starring role in the BBC Two drama serial Perfect Strangers, which was written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff. In 2002, he starred in The Project, a BBC drama charting New Labour's rise to power, and he took his highest-profile role to date, when he was picked to star in Spooks, which went on to become a huge popular and critical success when screened on BBC One. A longer second season was screened in 2003, and a third season was broadcast in the autumn of 2004, with him leaving the series in the second episode. The series also found a following on cable television in the United States, where it aired as MI-5 on the A&E Network. In 2007 he appeared in the one-off Channel 4 drama Secret Life, which dealt with the controversial subject of paedophilia.[4] Matthew was nominated and subsequently won the 'Best Actor' award at the Royal Television Society 2007 Awards for this part, and has been nominated for a BAFTA. He also appeared in a short sketch for Comic Relief as the groom in Mr Bean's Wedding, alongside Rowan Atkinson and Michelle Ryan.

Macfadyen has appeared in several films including Enigma (released in 2001), in which he was cast as a battle-scarred submarine commander, and In My Father's Den, for which he received the New Zealand Screen Award for Best Actor. Most notably, he stars as the romantic lead Fitzwilliam Darcy in a highly acclaimed adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released in the UK in September 2005. He starred in Frank Oz's Death at a Funeral with Rupert Graves, Alan Tudyk, Daisy Donovan and Keeley Hawes.

Matthew also starred in Incendiary, based on Chris Cleave's novel about a woman whose life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a football match whilst she was committing adultery. He played a senior anti-terrorist police officer alongside Michelle Williams and Ewan McGregor. He has also appeared in Ron Howard's film Frost/Nixon, in which he played John Birt.

In 2008, he acted as the male lead Arthur Clennam in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit. In 2009 Macfadyen appeared alongside Academy Award nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter in the BBC Four movie Enid (working title), based on the life of Enid Blyton, as Hugh Pollock, Blyton's publisher and first husband.

In 2010, he played The Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood. He also starred as Prior Philip in the TV miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, based on the eponymous novel of Ken Follett.

Personal life

In 2002, he began a relationship with his Spooks co-star Keeley Hawes. They were subsequently married on 8 October 2004. Their first child, daughter Maggie, was born in December 2004. The couple announced the birth of a baby boy, Ralph, in September 2006. Macfadyen is stepfather to Keeley Hawes' son, Myles.

Theatre

Filmography

Television

Cinema

Year Title Role Notes
2000 Maybe Baby Nigel
2001 Enigma Lt. Cave
2003 The Reckoning King's Justice
2004 In My Father's Den Paul Prior
2005 Pride & Prejudice Mr. Darcy Nominated - London Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Newcomer of the Year
2006 Middletown Gabriel Hunter
2007 Grindhouse Eye Gouging Victim Segment: Don't
Death at a Funeral Daniel Howells
2008 Incendiary Terence Butcher
Frost/Nixon John Birt Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2010 Robin Hood Sheriff of Nottingham
2011 The Three Musketeers Aramis Filming
The Promised Land Geoffrey Morton Pre-Production

Voice-over

  • 2000 : The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin [ Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 ] (reader)[36]
  • 2001 : Trampoline, by Meredith Oakes [ Afternoon Play on BBC Radio 4 ] (Skeggs)[37]
  • 2003 : Essential Poems (To Fall In Love With) [ TV programme on BBC Two ] (actor/reader)[38]
  • 2004 : The Coma, by Alex Garland [ audio book ] (reader)[39]
  • 2004 : Getting Away From It: The Island, by Tim Pears [ Afternoon Reading on BBC Radio 4 ] (reader)[40]
  • 2004 : The Hungerford Massacre [ TV documentary on BBC One ] (narrator)[41]
  • 2005 : Stories We Could Tell, by Tony Parsons [ audio book ] (reader)[42]
  • 2006 : The 9/11 Liars [ TV documentary on Channel 4 ] (narrator)[43]
  • 2006 : Nuremberg: Nazis On Trial [ 3-part TV documentary on BBC Two ] (narrator)[44]
  • 2007 : Robin Hood's Quest & The Quest for Aladdin's Treasure [ video games by Oxygen Games ] (narrator)[45]
  • 2007 : The Making of Music [ BBC Radio 4 ] (reader)[46]
  • 2007 : The Blair Years [ 3-part TV documentary on BBC One ] (narrator)[47]
  • 2007 : Last Party at the Palace [ TV documentary on Channel 4 ] (narrator)[48]
  • 2008 : Dangerous Jobs for Girls [ 4-part TV documentary on Channel 4 ] (narrator)[49]
  • 2008 : Words of War [ TV documentary on ITV1 ] (narrator)[50]
  • 2009 : Wine [ 3-part TV documentary on BBC Four ] (narrator)[51]
  • 2009 : Inside MI5 [ TV documentary on ITV1 ] (narrator)

References

  1. ^ a b c http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-features/7139221/Matthew-Macfadyen-interview.html
  2. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3646503/Leading-question.html
  3. ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-102942369.html
  4. ^ Evening Times: News
  5. ^ Playbill
  6. ^ Playbill
  7. ^ Playbill
  8. ^ Playbill
  9. ^ Playbill
  10. ^ Cheek by Jowl
  11. ^ RSC’s official archives
  12. ^ Cheek by Jowl
  13. ^ RSC’s official archives
  14. ^ National Theatre
  15. ^ National Theatre
  16. ^ What's on Stage Gossip
  17. ^ Royal Court Theatre
  18. ^ Vaudeville Theatre
  19. ^ TV.com
  20. ^ PBS Masterpiece
  21. ^ Warriors, l'impossible mission sur Arte
  22. ^ PBS Mystery
  23. ^ Fan site
  24. ^ PBS Masterpiece
  25. ^ The Project on the BBC
  26. ^ A collection of article/review excerpts
  27. ^ Spooks on the BBC
  28. ^ Official video
  29. ^ Secret Life on Channel 4
  30. ^ BBC Press Office
  31. ^ BBC Press Office
  32. ^ Miss Marple on ITV
  33. ^ Telegraph
  34. ^ BBC Press Office
  35. ^ Tandem Communications Press release
  36. ^ RadioListings Database
  37. ^ RadioListings Database
  38. ^ BBC Press Office
  39. ^ Review on Times online
  40. ^ RadioListings Database
  41. ^ BBC News
  42. ^ Excerpt on audible.com
  43. ^ 9/11 The Five Year Anniversary on Channel 4
  44. ^ BBC History
  45. ^ High Score Productions
  46. ^ The Making of Music on BBC Radio 4
  47. ^ BBC Press Office
  48. ^ Last Party at the Palace on Channel 4
  49. ^ Dangerous Jobs for Girls on Channel 4
  50. ^ The Words of War on ITV
  51. ^ Decanter Magazine

External links

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