Matthew William Goode is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC’s TV film feature Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty. He won praise for his performance as Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited.
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Matthew William Goode is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC’s TV film feature Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty. He won praise for his performance as Charles Ryder in Julian Jarrold’s adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. In 2017, Goode portrayed Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in the Netflix biographical drama series The Crown. As of 2018, he stars in Sky One’s fantasy-romance series, A Discovery of Witches, as Professor Matthew Clairmont. Goode was born in Exeter, Devon, and is the youngest of five children with a brother, two half-brothers, and a half-sister, television presenter Sally Meen.
He grew up in the village of Clyst St. Mary, near Exeter. His father, Anthony, was a geologist and his mother, Jennifer, is a nurse and amateur theatre director. He is the son of Anthony and Jennifer Goode, and has a brother and a sister, both of whom are television presenters. He has a younger brother, Matthew, who is also an actor. His mother is a former television presenter, and his sister is a TV presenter, as is his mother’s sister, Sally, from his father’s previous marriage. In 2013, he played the lead in the BBC Two drama Dancing on the Edge, as columnist Stanley Mitchell.
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