Matthew Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's TV film feature Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. 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. 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). He won 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 the comics by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. 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. Other notable film roles...
Watchmen
2009
Downton Abbey
2019
Self/less
2015
Allied
2016
The Imitation Game
2014
The House
2022
Abigail
2024
The King's Man
2021
Match Point
2005
Official Secrets
2019
Stoker
2013
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018
Leap Year
2010
The Sense of an Ending
2017
Medieval
2022
The Lookout
2007
Belle
2013
Copying Beethoven
2006
Imagine Me & You
2006
A Single Man
2009
Brideshead Revisited
2008
Chasing Liberty
2004
Freud's Last Session
2023
Silent Night
2021
Four Kids and It
2020
The Duke
2021
Cemetery Junction
2010
The Hatton Garden Job
2017
Pressure
2015
Spiked
2025
Burning Man
2011
My Family and Other Animals
2005
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia
2005
South from Granada
2003
Birthmarked
2018
The Colour Room
2021
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
2002