
Age: 48
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Matthew Goode (born 3 April 1978) 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 (2004), for which he received a nomination at Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male. He then appeared in a string of supporting roles in films like Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), the German-British romantic comedy Imagine Me and You (2006), and the period drama Copying Beethoven (2006). He won praise for his performance as Charles Ryder in Julian Jarrold's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (2008), and as Ozymandias in the American neo-noir superhero film Watchmen (2009), based on the comics by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. He then starred in romantic comedy Leap Year (2010) and Australian drama Burning Man (2011), the latter earning him a nomination for Best Actor at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Other notable film roles include The Lookout (2007), A Single Man (2009), Cemetery Junction (2010), Stoker (2013), Belle (2013), The Imitation Game (2014) and Self/less (2015). As well as appearing in films, Goode has appeared in numerous television shows. His most notable television roles include Henry Talbot in the final season of historical drama Downton Abbey, and Finley "Finn" Polmar in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife. He also had a lead role in the critically acclaimed British mini-serial Dancing on the Edge, as music journalist Stanley Mitchell. In 2017, Goode portrayed Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in the Netflix biographical drama series The Crown, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. As of 2018, he stars in Sky One's fantasy-romance series, A Discovery of Witches, as Professor Matthew Clairmont.

Henry "Hank" Pym was a brilliant biochemist, but after his first wife, Maria Trovaya, was kidnapped and murdered by Soviet spies, He decided to invent something that would save lives. He created Pym particles, that allows to change size. He studied ants. Later he created a helmet to control the ants. He made a costume and began performing under the name Ant-Man. He was later contacted by Janet van Dyne and asked for his help in catching her father's killer. Hank provided her with the Pym Particles and together they caught her father's killer. After that, they stayed together and performed as the superhero duo Ant-Man and the Wasp. They fell in love. Main enemy of Hank is Darren Cross, creator of Cross Technological Enterprises. However, Darren was diagnosed with a rare heart defect and had to use an experimental pacemaker. The pacemaker mutated his body and gave him superhuman powers. His heart began to burn and therefore he underwent multiple transplants. In desperation, he kidnapped Dr. Erica Sondheim, who was supposed to operate on a new heart. Darren kidnapped "donors" from a slums, which brought Ant-Man's attention. Darren was obsessed with obtaining the Pym particle, a substance that allows a person to change their size. He eventually discovered Pym's secret and developed his own suit, which he named Yellowjacket. Yellowjacket intended to sell the terrorist organization HYDRA. The battle between Darren and Ant-Man resulted in Darren's heart burning out and death.



