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Matthew Goode Biography
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Matthew Goode
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| Matthew Goode | |
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| Born | Matthew William Goode 3 April 1978 Exeter, Devon, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2001–present |
Matthew William Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor.
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Career
Goode was known for his role as Mandy Moore's romantic interest in the 2004 film Chasing Liberty. Beforehand, Goode had played the brother of Inspector Lynley in the BBC production Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Suitable Vengeance and had parts in the TV-movie Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and the Shakespeare play The Tempest. In recent years he has appeared in the films Match Point, Imagine Me & You, My Family and Other Animals, opposite Imelda Staunton, Copying Beethoven, opposite Ed Harris and Diane Kruger, and The Lookout. Standing the test of time is his whimsical take on Brooke Burgess in the BBC serial based upon Anthony Trollope's He Knew He was Right.
Recent roles have included Charles Ryder in the 2008 film Brideshead Revisited, the role previously taken by Jeremy Irons in the hugely popular 1980s serial. In 2009, he played the character of Adrian Veidt in Zack Snyder's Watchmen, and also appeared in the drama A Single Man (2009) (based on the Christopher Isherwood novel). In 2010, he co-starred in the romantic-comedy Leap Year (2010).
Personal life
Born in Exeter, Devon, Goode is the youngest child of five siblings (he has a brother, two half brothers, and a half sister named Sally Meen from his mother's other marriage). He grew up in the village of Clyst St. Mary in Devon with a geologist father and a nurse mother who was also an amateur theatre director. Goode studied at the University of Birmingham and London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
Goode became a father in 2009.1 He and his long-term partner, Sophie Dymoke, welcomed their daughter, Matilda Eve, on 1 March 2009.2
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
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| 2002 | Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister | Caspar | TV |
| 2003 | Al sur de Granada (South of Granada) | Gerald Brenan | |
| 2004 | Chasing Liberty | Ben Calder | |
| 2005 | Match Point | Tom Hewett | |
| My Family and Other Animals | Lawrence Durrell | TV | |
| 2006 | Imagine Me & You | Hector | |
| Copying Beethoven | Martin Bauer | ||
| 2007 | The Lookout | Gary Spargo | |
| 2008 | Brideshead Revisited | Charles Ryder | |
| 2009 | Watchmen | Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias | |
| A Single Man | Jim | ||
| 2010 | Leap Year | Declan | |
| Cemetery Junction | Mike Ramsay |
References
External links
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Matthew Goode |
Interviews
- News Week interview (21 April 2006)
- Sydney Morning Herald interview (1 March 2006)
- Sunday Herald interview (1 January 2006)
- USA Today interview (8 January 2004)
- LOVEFiLM Blog Matthew Goode at the London Film Festival screening of A Single Man (Oct 2009)
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