For other people with a similar name, see Matthew Good (disambiguation).
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Matthew William Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor.
Career
Goode may be best 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.
Upcoming films include the drama A Single Man (2009) (based on the Christopher Isherwood novel) and the romantic-comedy Leap Year (2010).
He is the face of Hackett, the English Gentleman's outfitters.
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. He and his long-term partner, Sophie Dymoke, welcomed a baby girl named Matilda Eve on 1 March 2009.
Filmography
Year
Title
Role
Other notes
2002
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Caspar
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
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
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External links
- at the Internet Movie Database
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Interviews
- (21 April 2006)
- (1 March 2006)
- (1 January 2006)
- (8 January 2004)
- Matthew Goode at the London Film Festival screening of A Single Man (Oct 2009)
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