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Matthew Goode
Born	April 3, 1978 (1978-04-03) (age 30) Exeter, England
Occupation	Actor

Matthew Goode (born April 3, 1978) is an English actor.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Selected Filmography 2 Personal life 3 Interviews 4 External links

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, 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 miniseries based upon Anthony Trollope's "He Knew He was Right."

He is playing the character of Adrian Veidt in the upcoming Watchmen movie directed by Zack Snyder, and possibly his highest profile role to date as the lead Charles Ryder in the 2008 film Brideshead Revisited, the role previously taken by Jeremy Irons in the hugely popular 1980s mini-series. He will star alongside Emma Thompson and Michael Gambon.

He is the face of Hackett, the British Gentleman's outfitters. Hackett also sponsor Jonny Wilkinson.

Vogue announced on the 29th October that he will play a significant role in ex-fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut, titled "A Single Man", based on the eponymous novel.

Selected Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
2003	Al sur de Granada (South of Granada)	Gerald Brenan
2004	Chasing Liberty	Ben Calder
2005	Match Point	Tom Hewett
2006	Imagine Me & You	Hector
	Copying Beethoven	Martin Bauer
2007	The Lookout	Gary Spargo
2008	Brideshead Revisited	Charles Ryder
2009	Watchmen	Ozymandias

Personal life

Goode was born in Exeter, England, the youngest of five siblings (he has a brother, two half brothers and a half sister 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 drama at the University of Birmingham and classical theatre^{citation needed} at London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Interviews

• News Week Interview (April 21, 2006)
• Sydney Morning Herald interview (March 1, 2006)
• Sunday Herald interview (January 1, 2006)
• USA Today interview (January 8, 2004)

External links

• Matthew Goode at the Internet Movie Database
• The World of Matthew Goode