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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.
Matthew Goode
John de la Pole
for John de la Pole in The Red Rose and The White Rose
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It’s July, 1483, and King Richard III’s usurpation of his nephew, King Edward V, has been thwarted mere weeks after his coronation. The rightful King and his younger brother have both been successfully freed, alive but dazed and traumatized, from the Tower of London where they had both been abandoned to fade from the annals of history. But their rescue, at the hands of Henry Stafford 2nd Duke of Buckingham, comes at a price. For it is the Duke, formerly Richard III’s closest ally but with strong family ties to the Lancastrians, who now rules as Protector of England. King Edward, still a child, is nothing more than his puppet and the Duke is free to do as he pleases, for good or ill and access to the King in strictly controlled. However, Edward may be a child. But he is also a Plantagenet and the eldest son and heir of the warrior King, Edward IV. His army of sisters and his formidable mother are fighting his corner, along with many of those who had once been loyal to the new king’s father. Meanwhile, the Lancastrians and the Tudors are still a threat, gaining strength both in England and overseas in Brittany and France. England is far from settled. The tentative peace brought about by the late King, Edward IV, was once more torn asunder by Richard’s failed usurpation. Factions have reformed, rival claimants gather strength.
