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.
Film inspired by Cosmic Horror style from the film Annihilation and the books of Lovecraft : Adrian Eriksen, a prestigious American government scientist, sees his partner die violently in an accident during their vacation, his face exploding against a rock because he did not dive from the top of a cliff far enough. To take his mind off things, Adrian accepts when he is asked to carry out a top secret mission on the ice floe where, in an underground/aquatic station, the piece of a titanic creature several km in size emerges from the ground. It is so immense that its shape is unidentifiable and it even seems to extend to the core of the Earth. In fact, even worse: the creature seems to have merged with the Earth or even to be an organic outgrowth of it. Scientific measurements say the creature appears to be from such a long time ago that their devices cannot assimilate such a figure. The material which composes it is also unidentifiable and soon we discover a fault in the ice which leads straight into a cave located in the brain of the creature, traversed by a strange synaptic energy which alters reality and time, making Adrian see his husband whose face is gradually becoming distorted. The energy regenerates meat and allows a member of the crew to continue living even though his brain no longer exists, he is devoured from the inside by an energy parasite.
