Matthew MacFadyen
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- The Way We Live Now (2001)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyen, Shirley Henderson…
- The rise and fall of a Jewish financer is laid bare by the masterful pen of Anthony Trollope. David Suchet broadly, if unlikeably encompasses the…
- Spooks - Season 1 (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Peter Firth…
- Watchable and fast–paced teledrama set around the activites of Britain's official spy agency, MI5.
Based around half a dozen characters in…
- Spooks - Season 2 (TV Series) (2003)
- Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Peter Firth…
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Season Two: 6…
- In My Father's Den (2004)
- Dir. Brad McGann
Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Emily Barclay, Miranda Otto…
- Achieving a new high watermark in production terms at least, this vivid New Zealand melodrama harnesses the complexities of Maurice Gee's…
- Spooks - Season 3 (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Peter Firth…
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Season Three: 10…
- Pride and Prejudice (2005)
- Dir. Joe Wright
Feat. Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Brenda Blethyn…
- Well–groomed incarnation of Jane Austen's early 19th century novel in which five sisters, whose family is down on their means, must navigate…
- Spooks - Season 5 (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Peter Firth…
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Season 5: 10 episodes…
- Death at a Funeral (2007)
- Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Rupert Graves, Peter Dinklage…
- Following the death of his father, Matthew Mcfadyen returns home to the most diabolical of funerals, in this Ealing–inspired comedy of…
- Frost/Nixon (2008)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell…
- Terrific adaptation of the Peter Morgan stageplay providing a dramatic retelling of the story behind the famous interviews between ex–President…
- Little Dorrit (TV Mini-Series) (2008)
- Feat. Claire Foy, Matthew MacFadyen, Tom Courtenay…
- Andrew Davies’s latest Dickens offering is a similarly vast, immaculately produced mini–series to that of BLEAK HOUSE, this time adapting the…
- Criminal Justice (TV Series) (2008-2009)
- Feat. Ben Whishaw, Pete Postlethwaite, Maxine Peake…
- Grim and unglamorous drama series focuses on an individual’s journey through the British criminal justice system, from prison to courtroom. It…
- Enid (2009)
- Dir. James Hawes
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew MacFadyen, Denis Lawson…
- Sober biopic of famed children's author Enid Blyton is less than flattering in its portrayal with Bonham Carter giving a masterclass in…
- Incendiary (2009)
- Dir. Sharon Maguire
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, Matthew MacFadyen…
- Thriller set in the aftermath of a terrorist strike in London, based on the novel by Chris Cleave. Though it boasts a typically fine Michelle…
- Marple (TV Series) [Julia McKenzie] (2009-2011)
- Dir. John Strickland, Nicholas Renton, Charles Palmer
Feat. Julia McKenzie, Prunella Scales, Rik Mayall…
- Yet another regeneration of British TV's long–running Agatha Christie serial, with Julia McKenzie taking the reins from Geraldine McEwan, who…
- Robin Hood (2010)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max von Sydow…
- Reuniting GLADIATOR director Ridley Scott with star Russell Crowe, this brawnier, grittier update of the Sherwood forest legend surveys the origins…
- Pillars of the Earth, The (TV Mini-Series) (2010)
- Feat. Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Matthew MacFadyen…
- A fierce rivalry for the English throne provides the cut and thrust of this heady 12th century melodrama.
Though less dramatically credible as the…
- Any Human Heart (TV Mini-series) (2010)
- Feat. Jim Broadbent, Matthew MacFadyen, Sam Claflin…
- Exquisite four–part British miniseries about a novelist's life that ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way…
- Three Musketeers, The (2011)
- Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Logan Lerman, Matthew MacFadyen, Ray Stevenson…
- Spectacular trash from the lesser of the Paul Andersons, this 3–D swashbuckler has little time for history and storytelling, opting instead for…
- Anna Karenina (2012)
- Dir. Joe Wright
Feat. Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Kelly MacDonald…
- Costume drama artisan Joe Wright boldly directs this Tom Stoppard scripted adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic tale of Russian aristocracy.
- Ripper Street (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Jerome Flynn, MyAnna Buring
- A gritty and gripping period policier which revisits the manhunt for Jack the Ripper in Victorian London.
Series One: eight episodes across three…
- Last Kingdom, The (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Alexander Dreymon, Ian Hart, Matthew MacFadyen…
- Historical adventure series set in the divided England of the 9th century follows the travails of the orphaned son of a Saxon nobleman.
- Enfield Haunting, The (2015)
- Dir. Kristoffer Nyholm
Feat. Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Matthew MacFadyen…
- Chilly British horror mini–series from the director of the Danish series THE KILLING, based on Guy Lyon Playfair’s book 'This House Is…
- Howards End (TV Mini-series) (2017)
- Dir. Hettie MacDonald
Feat. Hayley Atwell, Matthew MacFadyen
- Sumptuous 4–part miniseries adaptation of E.M. Forster’s 1910 novel exploring the social and class divisions in 20th Century England.
- Current War, The (2017)
- Dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Katherine Waterston…
- Historical biopic exploring the rivalries between the greatest inventors of the industrial age, with Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison, Michael…
- Nutcracker and the Four Realms, The (2018)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom, Joe Johnston
Feat. Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Foy, Eugenio Derbez…
- Lavish but hollow Disney retelling of E.T.A. Hoffmann's short story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and Marius Petipa's "The Nutcracker" about a…
- Succession (TV series) (2018)
- Feat. Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin…
- Provocative and witty satirical drama created by Jesse Armstrong (IN THE LOOP) about a dysfunctional dynasty led by an aging patriarch (Brian Cox).
- Assistant, The (2019)
- Dir. Kitty Green
Feat. Julia Garner, Matthew MacFadyen, Makenzie Leigh…
- A searing, beautifully modulated indictment of toxic office culture in the wake of the #MeToo movement, that follows the daily routine of an intern…
- Quiz (TV Mini-Series) (2020)
- Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Sian Clifford, Aisling Bea…
- Three–part mini–series based on the true story of former British Army major Charles Ingram (Matthew Macfadyen) who won a million pound…
- Operation Mincemeat (2021)
- Dir. John Madden
Feat. Colin Firth, Matthew MacFadyen, Kelly MacDonald…
- Two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops in this well–appointed, old–school WWII drama based upon…