Matthew Macfadyen is an actor you should know some facts about because he is a member of the The Nutcracker and the Four Realms’s cast and he has done a lot of things when it comes to acting.
These are some facts you should know about him!
- He was born on born 17 October 1974.
- He was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England.
- His paternal grandparents were Scottish and his maternal grandparents were Welsh.
- He attended schools in England (including in Louth, Lincolnshire), Scotland and Indonesia, and went to Oakham School in Rutland, before being accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at 17.
- After he finished his studies at the RADA from 1992 to 1995, he became known in British theatre primarily for his work with the stage company Cheek by Jowl, for whom he played Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing.
- He appeared as Hareton Earnshaw in an adaptation of Wuthering Heights, screened on the ITV network in 1998.
- We have seen him in movies such as The Three Musketeers,Robin Hood,Anna Karenina,Lost in Karastan,The Current War,Pride & Prejudice.
- In 2002, he started having a romantic relationship with Keeley Hawes, who was his co-star in the series Spooks.
- They got married in November 2004 and the couple has two children, daughter Maggie and son Ralph.
- In June 2010, he won a British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Criminal Justice.
- The actor appeared in films including Enigma (released in 2001), and In My Father’s Den, for which he received the New Zealand Screen Award for Best Actor. He stars as the romantic lead Fitzwilliam Darcy in an acclaimed adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released in the UK in September 2005.
- His wife and him are both patrons of the Lace Market Theatre in Nottingham .
