Matthew Goode

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Matthew Goode (born April 3, 1978) is a British actor.

Goode was born in Exeter, England, the youngest of five siblings (he has a brother, two half brothers and a half sister from his mother's other marriage); he grew up in Devon with a geologist father and a nurse mother who was also an amateur theatre director. Goode studied drama at the University of Birmingham and classical theatre^{[citation needed]} at London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Goode may be best known for his role as Mandy Moore's romantic interest in the 2004 film Chasing Liberty. Beforehand, Goode had played the brother of Inspector Lynley in the BBC production Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Suitable Vengeance and had parts in the TV-movie Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and the Shakespearean stage play The Tempest.

Goode has since appeared in the films Match Point and Imagine Me & You. His next film role will be in Copying Beethoven, opposite Ed Harris and Diane Kruger.

Goode is dating a woman whom he met through a friend during an encounter he calls, "brilliantly random". They have been dating since late summer of 2005.

[edit] Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role
2007	The Lookout	Gary
2006	Copying Beethoven	Martin Bauer
2006	Imagine Me & You	Heck
2005	Match Point	Tom Hewett
2004	Chasing Liberty	Ben Calder
2003	Al sur de Granada (South from Granada)	Gerald Brenan