Matthew Goode

Matthew William Goode born 3 April 1978 is an English actor He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABCs 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 Allens 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 Selfless 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 ArmstrongJones 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 20182022 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 Description above is from the Wikipedia article Matthew Goode licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors is on Wikipedia