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| Matthew Goode |
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| Matthew William Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English character actor. |
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| He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's TV film feature Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. |
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| His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy, Chasing Liberty (2004), for which he received a nomination at Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star - Male. |
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| He then appeared in a string of supporting roles in films like Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), the German - British romantic comedy Imagine Me and You (2006), and the period drama Copying Beethoven (2006). |
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| He's garnered praise for his performance as Charles Ryder in Julian Jarrold’s adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (2008), and as Ozymandias in the American neo-noir superhero film Watchmen (2009), based on DC Comics' limited series of the same name. |
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| He then starred in romantic comedy Leap Year (2010) and Australian drama Burning Man (2011), the latter earning him a nomination for Best Actor at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. |
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| Other notable 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). |
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| As well as appearing in films, Goode has appeared in numerous television shows. |
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| His most notable television roles include Henry Talbot in the final season of historical period drama Downton Abbey, and Finley 'Finn' Polmar in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife. |
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| He also had a lead role in the critically acclaimed British mini-serial Dancing on the Edge, as music journalist Stanley Mitchell, for which he earned a nomination for Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Television Film at the Satellite Awards. |
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| In 2017, Goode portrayed Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in the Netflix biographical drama series The Crown, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Star in a Drama Series. [2] |
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| He currently stars in Sky One's fantasy-romance series, A Discovery of Witches, as Professor Matthew Clairmont and is filming Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman prequel, The King's Man. |
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| Personal life |
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| Goode has been in a relationship with Sophie Dymoke since 2005. |
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| They married in 2014. [17] [18] [19] |
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| They have two daughters, Matilda Eve Goode [3] (b. March 2009) and Teddie Eleanor Rose Goode (b. September 2013), and a son, Ralph Goode (b. August 2015). |
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| Career |
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| 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, Goode made his American film debut opposite Mandy Moore in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty. |
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| Early life |
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| Goode was born in Exeter, Devon. |
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| His father, Anthony, was a geologist and his mother, Jennifer, is a nurse and amateur theatre director. |
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| 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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| He grew up in the village of Clyst St. Mary, near Exeter. [3] |
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| Goode was educated at Exeter School, an independent school in Exeter, Devon, [4] followed by the University of Birmingham and London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. |