Matthew Goode Biography
Born: April 3, 1978
English actor Matthew Goode took his Hollywood bow on a prestigious note, as Casper, one of the key characters in the well-received Alliance Atlantis telemovie Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002). The film constituted a revisionist update of the Cinderella story, adapted from the best-selling novel by Gregory_Maguire, and premiered on ABC to stellar ratings, virtually guaranteeing success for Goode and his fellow players. The young actor achieved his next coup not long after, landing a role in the romantic comedy Chasing_Liberty (2004), opposite pop diva and heartthrob Mandy_Moore. In that movie, Goode portrayed a British playboy who falls for the first daughter of the U.S. president (Moore), wholly unaware of her identity -- meanwhile guarding a little secret of his own.
Goode demonstrated his versatility as Tom Hewett in Woody_Allen's deadly serious, British-borne thriller Match_Point (2005) and returned to romantic comedy as a groom whose bride (Piper_Perabo) falls for another woman on the day of their wedding, in the 2006 Imagine Me & You. Following a critically praised appearance in Scott_Frank's 2007 caper thriller The_Lookout (opposite Jeff_Daniels and Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Goode hearkened back to England for a much-anticipated portrayal of Charles Ryder in the 2008 big-screen adaptation of Evelyn_Waugh's -Brideshead Revisited. He was also cast as Ozymandias in the hotly anticipated comic-book superhero film Watchmen (2009), adapted from the acclaimed Alan_Moore graphic novel. Nathan Southern, Rovi
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