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Matthew Goode

Matthew Goode

Actor · Born April 3, 1978 (48) · Exeter, Devon, England, UK

Primetime Emmy nominee · Screen Actors Guild Award nominee · 1 other major award body

Matthew William Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's 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 Allen's 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 Self/less (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 Armstrong-Jones, 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 2018–2022, 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 CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors is on Wikipedia.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
April 3, 1978 (48)
From
Exeter, Devon, England, UK
Works as
Actor
Titles
49 on MovieCove · 57 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 157 days to Oct 28Down 10% in 30 days

What are Matthew Goode's films like?

Across their 43 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.

Genres

Drama10 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 68th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Drama movies
Comedy9 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 60th percentile
: browse their Comedy movies
Action7 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 55th percentile
: browse their Action movies
Biography5 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 88th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Biography movies
Animation2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 51st percentile
: browse their Animation movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Bonds
27%
Self
23%
Morality
23%
Survival
9%
Society
8%
Power
6%
Ideas
5%
Family bonds13 titles, browse their movies with this themeRomantic love9 titles, browse their movies with this themeIdentity8 titles, browse their movies with this themeJustice7 titles, browse their movies with this themeRedemption5 titles, browse their movies with this themePurpose5 titles, browse their movies with this themeDeception4 titles, browse their movies with this themeSacrifice5 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 35 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Serious: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their serious movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

A split, not a type: Light 12 · Serious 6 · Dark 17

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 14 · Stylized 15 · Heightened 6

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

A split, not a type: Gentle 10 · Charged 11 · Intense 14

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

A split, not a type: Steady 16 · Shifting 15 · Whiplash 4

Some laughs: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their some laughs movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

A split, not a type: Straight-faced 18 · Some laughs 15 · Funny 2

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 16 · Even-paced 19 · Relentless 0

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

A split, not a type: Casual 15 · Engaged 12 · Full focus 8

Affecting: How much it costs you emotionally; whether you need recovery time. Browse their affecting movies.
Demand · Emotional cost
easyheavy

A split, not a type: Easy watch 10 · Affecting 10 · Heavy 15

Open-ended: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their open-ended movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

A split, not a type: Resolved 20 · Open-ended 8 · Ambiguous 7

Roles they play

29 analyzed roles

Usually the Shadow: 10 of 29 analyzed roles.

Shadow
10 of 29
Hero
6 of 29
Mentor
6 of 29
Trickster
3 of 29
Herald
2 of 29
Shapeshifter
1 of 29
Threshold guardian
1 of 29
Show the 29 roles

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
21
Melancholic
22
Dread
12
Romantic
11
Warm
10
Other
53

How their films linger

Bittersweet17 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteThought-provoking14 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful13 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFeel-good10 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHaunting9 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling7 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 10 with a twist

  • Happy10
  • Bittersweet25
  • Ambiguous7
  • Cyclical1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Matthew Goode's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 37 of their 49 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (10).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Matthew Goode's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

57 credits, 49 with a MovieCove page; 4 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • Spiked(2025)

    as Walter / Sir Balderdash (voice)

    Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • Dept. Q(2025)

    Show 10 episodes · as DCI Carl Morck

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows

  • Abigail(2024)

    as Father

    Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films

  • Freud's Last Session(2023)

    as C. S. Lewis

    Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films

  • Medieval(2022)

    as král Zikmund

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films

  • The Offer(2022)

    Show 10 episodes · as Robert Evans

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows

  • The House(2022)

    as Raymond (voice)

    Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films

  • The King's Man(2021)

    as Morton

    Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films

  • Silent Night(2021)

    as Simon

    Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films

  • The Colour Room(2021)

    as Colley Shorter

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films

  • The Duke(2020)

    as Jeremy Hutchinson

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films

  • Four Kids and It(2020)

    as David

    Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films

  • Downton Abbey(2019)

    as Henry Talbot

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films

  • Official Secrets(2019)

    as Peter Beaumont

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films

  • A Discovery of Witches(2018)

    Show 25 episodes · as Matthew Clairmont

    Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all shows

  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society(2018)

    as Sidney Stark

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films

  • Ordeal by Innocence(2018)

    Show 3 episodes · as Philip Durrant

    Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all shows

  • Birthmarked(2018)

    as Ben

    Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films

  • The Hatton Garden Job(2017)

    as XXX

    Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films

  • The Sense of an Ending(2017)

    as Mr. Joe Hunt

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films

  • Allied(2016)

    as Guy Sangster

    Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films

  • The Crown(2016)

    Show 3 episodes · as Tony Armstrong-Jones

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows

  • Roots(2016)

    Show 2 episodes · as William Waller

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all shows

  • Self/less(2015)

    as Albright

    Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films

  • Pressure(2015)

    as Mitchell

    Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films

  • The Imitation Game(2014)

    as Hugh Alexander

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films

  • Death Comes to Pemberley(2013)

    Show 3 episodes · as George Wickham

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all shows

  • Belle(2013)

    as Captain Sir John Lindsay

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films

  • Stoker(2013)

    as Charlie Stoker

    Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films

  • Dancing on the Edge(2013)

    Show 5 episodes · as Stanley Mitchell

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all shows

  • The Poison Tree (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Show 2 episodes · as Rex Clarke

  • Birdsong (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Show 2 episodes · as Captain Gray

  • Burning Man(2011)

    as Tom

    Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films

  • Downton Abbey(2010)

    Show 5 episodes · as Henry Talbot

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows

  • Cemetery Junction(2010)

    as Mike Ramsay

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films

  • Leap Year(2010)

    as Declan

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films

  • A Single Man(2009)

    as Jim

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films

  • The Good Wife(2009)

    Show 30 episodes · as Finn Polmar

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows

  • Watchmen(2009)

    as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films

  • Brideshead Revisited(2008)

    as Charles Ryder

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films

  • The Lookout(2007)

    as Gary Spargo

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films

  • Copying Beethoven(2006)

    as Martin Bauer

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films

  • Imagine Me & You(2005)

    as Heck

    Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films

  • My Family and Other Animals(2005)

    as Larry Durrell

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films

  • Match Point(2005)

    as Tom Hewett

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films

  • Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia(2005)

    as Ali Baba

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • Agatha Christie's Marple(2004)

    Show 1 episode · as Patrick Simmons

    Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all shows

  • He Knew He Was Right (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    Show 3 episodes · as Brooke Burgess

  • Chasing Liberty(2004)

    as Ben Calder

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films

  • South from Granada(2003)

    as Gerald Brenan

    Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films

  • The Inspector Lynley Mysteries(2001)

    Show 1 episode · as Peter Lynley

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all shows

  • Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister(2000)

    as Casper

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films

  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    Show 1 episode · Actor

  • Fortitude (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Thomas Argyll “TAR” Robertson

  • Hal (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Actor

  • Roadside Picnic (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Show 1 episode · as Redrick Schuhart

  • The Custom of the Country (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Actor

Career shape

Star power in the 99th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 57 titles, 53 of them dated from 1992 to 2025; peak year 2021.

Biggest box office

The Imitation Game (2014)

$234M worldwide

Highest rated

The Imitation Game (2014)

Midcredits 99th

Film career

MilestoneNomination
19922025

Peak 2021 · at the high point of their film career. Top draw in 26 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting57 of 57: 57 only acting, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score73rd

By decade

1990s1 · acting2000s16 · acting2010s24 · acting2020s12 · acting

Billing

usually 3rd · top billed in 18% of 34 roles
03081318

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.

Awards

4 major nominations and no wins, 2015–2023.

  1. 2023
    • Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television
  2. 2018
    • Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
  3. 2017
    • Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
  4. 2015
    • Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

How do Matthew Goode's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 67th percentile, the median of all 37; across their 35 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 60th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

60thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 35

Approval · how many liked their films

68thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 35

Reach · how many have seen their films

90thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 35

Midcredits score across 49 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up24
  • 50th to 74th16
  • 25th to 49th7
  • Below 25th2

Shape of the crowd

29 of their 49 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Loved12
  • Cult Classic1
  • Crowd Pleaser29
  • Broadly Agreed4
  • Mixed3

Most divisive · actor

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia (2005)

83rd percentile spread · 35% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · actor

The Imitation Game (2014)

Midcredits 99th · 92% liked

Reviewers score the acting 73/100 in their films, across 33 reviewed titles; fans 81, detractors 49. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Is Matthew Goode's work okay for kids?

Across up to 33 MovieCove titles with content scores, profanity and frightening / intense run heavier than most films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore26 titles12–87 · median 46 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity33 titles18–53 · median 41 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity25 titles29–88 · median 59 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 36
Alcohol & Drugs24 titles22–56 · median 39 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 33
Frightening / Intense24 titles7–83 · median 53 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 39

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.

Who does Matthew Goode work with?

People who share at least 2 of Matthew Goode's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; David M. Thompson shares the most, 4.

Directors

Actors

Cinematographers and editors

Producers