FrameThrower · Actors · Matthew Macfadyen
Matthew Macfadyen
4 films · 344 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2005–2025
Born 17 October 1974 · Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
David Matthew Macfadyen is an English actor. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he gained prominence for his role as Mr. Darcy in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005). He starred as Tom Wambsgans in the HBO drama series Succession (2018–2023), for which he has received two Primetime Emmy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Macfadyen is also known for his roles in films such as Death at a Funeral (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Anna Karenina (2012), The Assistant (2019), and Operation Mincemeat (2021). He made his television debut in 1998 as Hareton Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 344 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2005–2025
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film2023
- British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor2022
- British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor2010
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series2022
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series2023
How their films are shot
Measured across 344 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Matthew takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Matthew takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 344 frames from Matthew Macfadyen's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.