Matthew Macfadyen
Matthew Macfadyen
David Matthew Macfadyenis a BAFTA award-winning English actor, known for his roles as MI5 Intelligence Officer Tom Quinn in the BBC television drama series Spooks, Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 2005 film of Pride & Prejudice and Daniel in the Frank Oz comedy Death at a Funeral. He is also known for portraying John Birt in the political drama Frost/Nixon, as well as Detective Inspector Edmund Reid in the BBC series Ripper Street. In 2015 he starred in the Sky Living...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 October 1974
You got the more sugary one. The Brits hated it.
I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.
What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.
As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.
You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.
No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.
Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?