Matthew Goode

Matthew Goode (born 3 April 1978) is a British actor.

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 at London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

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 Shakespearean stage play The Tempest.

Goode has since appeared in the films Match Point and Imagine Me & You. Recent movies include Copying Beethoven, opposite Ed Harris and Diane Kruger, and The Lookout.

He is playing the character of Adrian Veidt in the upcoming Watchmen movie directed by Zack Snyder