David Matthew Macfadyen (born 17 October 1974) is an English actor. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he gained prominence for his role as Mr. Darcy in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005). He starred as Tom Wambsgans in the HBO drama series Succession (2018–2023), for which he has received two Primetime Emmy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Macfadyen is also known for his roles in films such as Death at a Funeral (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Anna Karenina (2012), The Assistant (2019), and Operation Mincemeat (2021). He made his television debut in 1998 as Hareton Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights. He portrayed Tom Quinn in the BBC One spy series Spooks (2002–04, 2011), and Inspector Edmund Reid in the BBC mystery series Ripper Street (2012–2016). He also starred as Henry Wilcox in Kenneth Lonergan's miniseries Howards End and Charles Ingram in the Stephen Frears' limited series Quiz (2020).
Movie | Welcome to Holland | Fred Vandergroot | 2025 |
Series | The Miniature Wife | Les | 2025 |
Series | Death by Lightning | Charles Guiteau | 2025 |
Series | Street Life | Charlie | 2025 |
Movie | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine | Self - Mr. Paradox | 2024-11-12 |
Movie | Deadpool & Wolverine | Mr. Paradox | 2024-07-24 |
Series | Stonehouse | John Stonehouse | 2023-01-02 |
Movie | Operation Mincemeat | Charles Cholmondeley | 2022-04-01 |
Series | Quiz | Charles Ingram | 2020-04-13 |
Movie | The Assistant | Wilcock | 2020-01-31 |
Movie | The Nutcracker and the Four Realms | Benjamin Stahlbaum | 2018-10-26 |
Movie | The Current War | J.P. Morgan | 2018-02-01 |
Series | Succession | Tom Wambsgans | 2018-06-03 |
Movie | Revolution: New Art for a New World | Vladimir Lenin (voice) | 2017-03-08 |
Series | Howards End | Henry Wilcox | 2017-11-12 |
Movie | Churchill's Secret | Randolph Churchill | 2016-02-29 |
Movie | The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music | Georg von Trapp | 2015-11-12 |
Series | The Last Kingdom | Lord Uhtred | 2015-10-10 |
Series | The Enfield Haunting | Guy Lyon Playfair | 2015-05-03 |
Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
Series | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | 2014-02-17 |
Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
Movie | 24 Hours on Earth | Narrator (voice) | 2014-04-21 |
Movie | If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day | Narrator (voice) | 2014-06-01 |
Movie | Lost in Karastan | Emil Forester | 2014-08-23 |
Series | Ambassadors | POD | 2013-10-23 |
Series | Ripper Street | Edmund Reid | 2012-12-30 |
Movie | Anna Karenina | Oblonsky | 2012-09-06 |
Movie | The Three Musketeers | Athos | 2011-08-31 |
Movie | Robin Hood | Sheriff of Nottingham | 2010-05-12 |
Series | Any Human Heart | Logan Mountstuart | 2010-11-21 |
Series | The Pillars of the Earth | Prior Phillip | 2010-07-23 |
Movie | Enid | Hugh Pollock | 2009-11-16 |
Movie | Incendiary | Terrance | 2008-01-20 |
Series | Ashes to Ashes | Gil Hollis | 2008-02-07 |
Series | Criminal Justice | Joe Miller | 2008-06-30 |
Series | Little Dorrit | Arthur Clennam | 2008-10-26 |
Movie | Frost/Nixon | John Birt | 2008-10-15 |
Movie | Mr. Bean's Wedding | Daniel | 2007-03-16 |
Movie | Don't | Unknown | 2007-04-05 |
Movie | Secret Life | Charlie | 2007-04-19 |
Movie | Death at a Funeral | Daniel | 2007-08-17 |
Movie | Grindhouse | Hatchet Victim (segment "Don't") (uncredited) | 2007-04-06 |
Movie | Middletown | Unknown | 2006-04-28 |
Series | Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial | Narrator | 2006-09-25 |
Movie | Pride & Prejudice | Fitzwilliam Darcy | 2005-09-16 |
Movie | The Reckoning | King’s Justice | 2004-02-26 |
Movie | The Hungerford Massacre | Himself (Narratior) | 2004-12-07 |
Movie | In My Father's Den | Paul Prior | 2004-06-11 |
Movie | The Project | Paul Tibbenham | 2002-11-10 |
Series | Spooks | Tom Quinn | 2002-05-13 |
Series | The Project | Paul Tibbenham | 2002-11-10 |
Series | Perfect Strangers | Daniel | 2001-05-10 |
Movie | Enigma | Cave | 2001-01-22 |
Series | Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes | Unknown | 2001-09-04 |
Series | The Way We Live Now | Sir Felix Carbury | 2001-11-11 |
Movie | Maybe Baby | Nigel | 2000-06-02 |
Series | Warriors | Pte. Alan James | 1999-11-20 |
Movie | Warriors | Pte. Alan James | 1999-11-29 |
Movie | Wuthering Heights | Hareton Earnshaw | 1998-09-11 |
Series | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Winner | 1944-01-20 |