Matthew Macfadyen

The Current War (2019)

As: J.P. Morgan

Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Stars: Michael Shannon | Tom Holland | Benedict Cumberbatch | Nicholas Hoult | Katherine Waterston

The Assistant (2019)

As: Wilcock

A look at the day in the life of the assistant to a powerful corporate executive.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Kitty Green

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Julia Garner | Kristine Froseth | Makenzie Leigh | Jon Orsini

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

As: Benjamin Stahlbaum

A young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.

Directed by: Lasse Hallström | Joe Johnston

Stars: Keira Knightley | Eugenio Derbez | Matthew Macfadyen | Richard E. Grant | Mackenzie Foy

Revolution: New Art for a New World (2017)

As: Vladimir Lenin (voice)

Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, the film brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life. It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich - pioneers who flourished in response to the challenge of building a new art for a new ...

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Margy Kinmonth

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | James Fleet | Tom Hollander | Eleanor Tomlinson | Daisy Bevan

Churchill's Secret (2016)

As: Randolph Churchill

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Charles Sturridge

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Michael Gambon | Lindsay Duncan | Tara Fitzgerald | Romola Garai

The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music (2015)

As: Georg von Trapp

Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of a well-known musical family, overcomes many obstacles to pursue her musical career and move to the United States.

Directed by: Ben Verbong

Stars: Eliza Bennett | Rosemary Harris | Matthew Macfadyen | Yvonne Catterfeld | Cosima Shaw

Lost in Karastan (2015)

As: Emil Forester

A filmmaker from England is hired to direct an epic production in the Caucasus region of Europe.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Ben Hopkins

Stars: Noah Taylor | Matthew Macfadyen | MyAnna Buring | Ali Cook | Ümit Ünal

If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day (2014)

As: Narrator (voice)

A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home before the assault.

Runtime: 47 min.

Directed by: Marion Milne

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Ben Lamb | Tom Rhys Harries | Seamus Morrison | Charlotte Hamblin

24 Hours on Earth (2014)

As: Narrator (voice)

The changing position of the sun in the sky affects the behaviour of animals and plants across our planet. From the moment it rises, animals are waiting, ready to take advantage of the opportunities that the sun creates. A quirky chameleon uses solar power to survive, while a family of lemurs get a morning heat fix. But, as the day progresses and the sun climbs higher in the sky, becoming more powerful, ...

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen

Anna Karenina (2012)

As: Stiva Oblonsky

Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

Runtime: 129 min.

Directed by: Joe Wright

Stars: Keira Knightley | Jude Law | Matthew Macfadyen | Kelly Macdonald | Aaron Taylor-Johnson

The Three Musketeers (2011)

As: Athos

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson

Stars: Milla Jovovich | Matthew Macfadyen | Luke Evans | Christian Oliver | Helen George

Any Human Heart (2010)

As: Logan Mountstuart (Middle)

A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson.

Directed by: Michael Samuels

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Gillian Anderson | Jim Broadbent | Hayley Atwell | Sam Claflin

Robin Hood (2010)

As: Sheriff of Nottingham

When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.

Runtime: 140 min.

Directed by: Ridley Scott

Stars: Cate Blanchett | Russell Crowe | Max von Sydow | William Hurt | Mark Strong

Enid (2009)

As: Hugh Pollock

Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family...

Runtime: 82 min.

Directed by: James Hawes

Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Matthew Macfadyen | Joseph Millson | Denis Lawson | Claire Rushbrook

Frost/Nixon (2008)

As: John Birt

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman ...

Runtime: 122 min.

Directed by: Ron Howard

Stars: Sam Rockwell | Matthew Macfadyen | Kevin Bacon | Michael Sheen | Frank Langella

Incendiary (2008)

As: Terrance

An adulterous woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Sharon Maguire

Stars: Michelle Williams | Ewan McGregor | Matthew Macfadyen | Nicholas Gleaves | Sidney Johnston

Death at a Funeral (2007)

As: Daniel

Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Frank Oz

Stars: Ewen Bremner | Matthew Macfadyen | Andy Nyman | Keeley Hawes | Daisy Donovan

Secret Life (2007)

As: Charlie

Charlie is white, middle class and a child sex offender. And though he's served his sentence, by his own admission, he continues to pose a significant danger to children. When the rehabilitation centre he has elected to attend is shut down, he is cast adrift in the local community, without guidance or psychological treatment, to struggle alone with his compulsion to re-offend.

Runtime: 70 min.

Directed by: Rowan Joffe

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Yasmin Paige | Michele Austin | Holly Aird | Phil Davis

Don't (2007)

In 2007, Wright directed a fake trailer insert for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse, called "Don't", it was a plotless trailer that mocked horror clichés.

Runtime: 2 min.

Directed by: Edgar Wright

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Jason Isaacs | Rafe Spall | Simon Pegg | Nick Frost

Mr. Bean's Wedding (2007)

As: Daniel

In this Comic Relief sketch, the lovable yet clumsy Mr. Bean finds himself at the wedding of an unsuspecting couple, leading to mishaps, mayhem, and a very angry father of the bride.

Runtime: 7 min.

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Rowan Atkinson | Michelle Ryan | Alex MacQueen | David Haig

Middletown (2006)

An overzealous priest returns to his home town and ends up battling against his brother for the heart of the locals.

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Brian Kirk

Stars: Gerard McSorley | Daniel Mays | Matthew Macfadyen | Eva Birthistle | Richard Dormer

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

As: Mr. Darcy

Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

Runtime: 129 min.

Directed by: Joe Wright

Stars: Talulah Riley | Keira Knightley | Rosamund Pike | Carey Mulligan | Jena Malone

In My Father's Den (2004)

As: Paul Prior

Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including ...

Runtime: 127 min.

Directed by: Brad McGann

Stars: Miranda Otto | Emily Barclay | Colin Moy | Matthew Macfadyen | Jimmy Keen

The Reckoning (2003)

As: King’s Justice

In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they Arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman bing sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Paul McGuigan

Stars: Brian Cox | Tom Hardy | Willem Dafoe | Simon McBurney | Paul Bettany

The Project (2002)

As: Paul Tibbenham

The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of university to Westminster's corridors of power. Their journey takes us deep into the world of New Labour headquarters in Millbank, and later Downing Street, exposing the machinations behind the party's transformation into the sharp, media-aware voice of professional, middle-England.

Runtime: 212 min.

Directed by: Peter Kosminsky

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Naomie Harris | James Frain | Shaun Evans | Paloma Baeza

Enigma (2001)

As: Cave

A romantic thriller based around the World War 2 project to crack the codes behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.

Runtime: 119 min.

Directed by: Michael Apted

Stars: Kate Winslet | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Jeremy Northam | Dougray Scott | Saffron Burrows

Maybe Baby (2000)

As: Nigel

Hugh Laurie (Sam) and Joely Richardson (Lucy) star as an irresistible couple who seem to have everything - good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing that they really want - a baby. Sam sets his sights on writing a successful screenplay, a comedy about a couple trying for a baby. The only problem is that Lucy is horrified ...

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Ben Elton

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Adrian Lester | Joely Richardson | Hugh Laurie | Yasmin Bannerman

Warriors (1999)

As: Pte. Alan James

If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the story of five young soldiers and their harrowing experiences in the region.

Runtime: 175 min.

Directed by: Peter Kosminsky

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Ioan Gruffudd | Cal Macaninch | Darren Morfitt | Joe Renton

Wuthering Heights (1998)

As: Hareton Earnshaw

Gipsy boy Heathcliffe is adopted by a god-fearing landowner in northern England and grows up as the soul-mate of the daughter, Cathy Earnshaw. When father dies, stern son Hindley returns and bans Heathcliffe to the stables; when they spy upon their upper class neighbors, Edgar Linton sends the dogs upon them and chases Heath but starts an affair -love comes only from him- with her. When Hindley's socialite ...

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: David Skynner

Stars: Robert Cavanah | Matthew Macfadyen | Peter Davison | Orla Brady | Sarah Smart

Operation Mincemeat ()

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.

Directed by: John Madden

Stars: Colin Firth | Matthew Macfadyen | Kelly Macdonald | Mark Gatiss | Joe Flynn