Vote for Matthew Macfadyen - Louth-educated actor Matthew MacFadyen in line for TV award - vote here

LINCOLNSHIRE ECHO
September 18, 2013

A top British actor who was educated in Louth has been nominated for a National Television Award.

Matthew MacFadyen attended Kidgate School in the town, where his mother also taught drama, before moving on to boarding school Oakham in R

The 38-year-old is best known for his breakthrough role in BBC spy drama Spooks, where he played an Mi5 agent, and for starring as Mr Darcy opposite Keira Knightley in a big-screen version of Pride and Prejudice.

However his nomination for the prestigious National Television Awards is in the Best Detective category for his portrayal of DI Edmund Reid in dark Victorian crime thriller Ripper Street.

A final shortlist will be revealed before the awards ceremony next January.

To vote for Matthew click here

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Matthew Macfadyen, Toby Stephens - PERFECT STRANGERS

Two of my favorite actors and one of my favorite songs - IN THE ARMS OF THE ANGELS

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Matthew Macfadyen - Getting Jiggy (everyone's favorite Matthew moment...)

Krysda - youtube

Matthew Macfadyen, Keira Knightley - Save The Last Dance For Me

muser1901 - Youtube

Thanks again, Emilia, for finding such a lovely video

Matthew Macfadyen at Focus Clinics (proving I will watch anything that has Matthew Macfadyen in it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JYYy7Dh4aCU

I admit it, I am pathetic.  I am even watching Matthew do features for his Eye clinic.  Give the guy a BAFTA for this, he is simply wonderful...

Matthew Macfadyen: Buring reunites with Macfadyen

MyAnna Buring has said it was like working with an "old friend" when she reunited with her Ripper Street co-star Matthew Macfadyen for the big screen.

The actress shot Epic, due out next year, with Matthew in Georgia, after filming BBC One drama Ripper Street together.

"It's been great, lovely," she said of working with Matthew on the movie, the story of an English filmmaker who is hired to direct a huge production in the Caucasus region of Europe.

"It's like working with an old mate the second time around so it's fun."

MyAnna, who attended the First Light Awards this week, to celebrate the next generation of British filmmakers, is about to start working on a second series of Ripper Street, which has been recommissioned despite complaints it was too violent.


READ MORE: http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/buring-reunites-macfadyen-114033920.html

Ripper Street Season 1 Review “What Use Our Work” (TV EQUALS)

On last week’s Ripper Street, Captain Jackson’s former Pinkerton colleague set him up as the murderer of a prostitute. It seemed from the preview that the season finale was going to focus on clearing Jacksons name and quelling public panic over the return of Jack the Ripper. In an interesting twist, neither of these turned out to be the case.

The police station is still grieving at the loss of Hobbs. In an incredibly touching scene, the policemen come together in a bar to mourn their fallen colleague. Drake, a man typically quick to show anger or toughness, is overwhelmed with emotion and stands before them with tears in his eyes. He is angry, though, at Inspector Reid, who he thinks is out of touch with the lives and concerns of his men. For his part, Reid is equally affected by Hobbs’ death, but realizes that he never took the time to get to know Hobbs when he was alive. For example, he didn’t know Hobbs was married.

These shortcomings in Reid’s professional life are eclipsed by the ruins of his personal life. He previously shared a passionate kiss with Mrs. Goren, but goes even further when he shows up at her bedroom. While this is not the best course of action, it is not surprising considering how cold his wife has been towards him. Everything about Emily is stiff and unwelcoming – her manner of speech, hair, clothes, and avoidance of much physical contact. Unfortunately, Reid doesn’t get the solace he’s searching for from Mrs. Goren. In a rather abrupt manner, she shuts down his efforts to tell her about the search for a man who may have information about his daughter. Reid is so broken and alone. It’s tragic.

READ MORE: http://www.tvequals.com/2013/03/10/ripper-street-season-1-review-what-use-our-work/

Matthew Macfadyen: Critic’s corner: What’s on TV tonight By Matthew Gilbert | BOSTON GLOBE STAFF

Ripper Street Saturday at 9 p.m., BBC America

I’ve enjoyed this series, which wraps for the season on Saturday night. “Ripper Street” is yet another TV crime procedural, but the primitive forensics and the Victorian setting, with its killing poverty and moral hypocrisies, make it stand out. The writers manage to turn each murder case into more than just a whodunit, with themes about the brutality of war, labor strikes, and psychiatry. And Matthew Macfadyen has been a formidable lead. The series has been renewed for a second season.

http://bostonglobe.com/arts/television/2013/03/07/critic-corner-march/tvyrIEKpwRcALTX2YYVUQL/story.html

Matthew Macfadyen Tribute - Filmography 1997 - 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-C_q9i-I-Y#

AWAKE MY SOUL - YOUTUBE

MATTHEW MACFADYEN IN GEORGIA...I think

I have absolutely no idea what is going on here, lots of scenes from his movies, some personal bits at the end, Myanna Buring teaching the Texas Two Step, the meteor hits nearby and then he says good bye (I think) to Georgia - but not for long....

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Matthew Macfadyen - Hallelujah (Matthew in Georgia, filming EPIC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IIjIET8EmHY#!

A Thespian Without Vanity

Matthew Macfadyen Ripper Street: Matthew Macfadyen On The Joys Of Period Pieces & His Fancy Bowler Hat - Access Hollywood

http://watch.accesshollywood.com/video/ripper-street:-matthew-macfadyen-on-the-joys-of-pieces-his-fancy-bowler-hat/2101346295001?&page=24

Matthew Macfadyen Tribute - filmography 1997-2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-C_q9i-I-Y

The "Darcylicious" Matthew Macfadyen

 Awake My Soul

Review of Ripper Street ‘The Weight of One Man’s Heart’ By Neela Debnath (INDEPENDENT)

Charlene McKenna as Rose (BBC)

On this week’s installment of CSI: Whitechapel or “Ripper Street” as it is more commonly referred to, viewers were finally given an insight into Sergeant Drake’s dark past. There was of course the regular dose of sex, violence and anachronisms that come as standard with each episode.

Thus far Drake has been somewhat of a mystery to the audience and there have only been small hints of the man he used to be. During the lockdown at the orphanage in episode 2, Drake spoke about his nightmares and revealed a tattoo of an Egyptian goddess.

For those who may have wondered what lay beneath that cool, uptight and very proper Victorian exterior need wonder no longer. Drake was a former soldier who experienced all the horrors of war and more after slaying his captors when he was taken prisoner.

There is a reason he is Reid’s muscle and essentially tethered to a leash but it is a self-imposed restriction. Jackson may mock him for being too serious but perhaps he would be less cocky if he knew what Drake was capable and what he has done in the past.

It was a great story in terms of character development and the parallels it created between the treatment of veterans returning from the front line in the Victorian era and in 2013. It served as an interesting angle and way in for viewers. Drake’s former brother-in-arms Colonel Madoc Faulkner (Iain Glen) gave a fierce critique of the ‘reward’ former soldiers are given when they return home after serving. He made a compelling argument and raised an issue that applies both then and now.

READ MORE: http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/27/review-of-ripper-street-the-weight-of-one-mans-heart/

Matthew Macfadyen plays it straight on 'Ripper Street' on BBC America (Philly.com)

Ellen Gray, Daily News TV Critic
POSTED: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 3:01 AM
* RIPPER STREET. 9 p.m. Saturdays, BBC America.

PASADENA, Calif. - You might not guess it to see him as Mr. Darcy to Keira Knightley's Elizabeth Bennet in "Pride & Prejudice" or the somber Victorian London police Inspector Edmund Reid in BBC America's new "Ripper Street," but Matthew Macfadyen sometimes has trouble keeping a straight face.
In fact, Jerome Flynn ("Game of Thrones"), who plays Reid's sergeant in "Ripper Street," says Macfadyen and co-star Adam Rothenberg ("Alcatraz") are "the two biggest gigglers I've worked with."

"Adam's terrible. He's terrible!" said Macfadyen in an interview earlier this month during the Television Critics Association's winter meetings. "We . . . got to a stage where we couldn't look at each other."

Given how many of their scenes involve dead bodies - Rothenberg plays a former U.S. Army surgeon with a murky past and a few forensics tricks up his sleeve - some gallows humor is understandable.

But then there was "Frost/Nixon," the 2008 film in which Macfadyen played David Frost producer John Birt.

"There's a lot of giggling with Sam Rockwell, Oliver Platt and I, because for much of it we were kind of in the back of shots . . . so there was a lot of naughtiness. And the more serious Frank [Langella, who played Richard Nixon] and Michael [Sheen, who played Frost] were, the more hysterical" the three became, Macfadyen recalled.

READ MORE: http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/television/187997591.html

Matthew Macfadyen filming EPIC (video) (GNFC)

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Sorry about the small video - probably better for you to look right at the main link above

Ripper Street - Episode Three

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhQmOrXKidA

It’s a Ripper! You can almost smell the fear on the set of frighteningly fantastic new crime drama Ripper Street (TV MAGAZINE)

By ANNE-MARIE HAMILTON Published: 27th December 2012

DENSE fog swirls above the cobbles as chickens in wooden cages let out high-pitched squawks and a pair of bloomers swings from a washing line high above the street.

Welcome to the mean streets of Whitechapel in 1889 where corpses, violence and general squalor abound.
It’s a lawless place ruled by fear and the setting for a new crime drama focusing on the terrifying aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders.

TV Magazine is on location at a former army barracks in Dublin that’s doubling for London’s East End.
And as we peer past a crowd of extras, a familiar figure emerges in the gloom – former Spooks star Matthew Macfadyen, all broad-shouldered and reassuring in a well-cut check suit.

“Everyone has got this terrible hangover from not finding the Ripper – and they’ve got real hangovers as well,” says Matthew, 38, who stars as Detective Edmund Reid. “There has been a little bit of Guinness...”
Within minutes on set, it’s clear that pints of the black stuff have created a tight bond between the show’s three male stars, Matthew, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg.


“There is a lot of giggling,” admits Jerome, 49. “I have to admit, one of the reasons I wanted to be in the series was because Matt was doing it. I’m a big fan of his and thought: ‘Well, he’s not going to involve himself in anything that’s going to die.’ I think made the right decision.”

“It’s nice being away from London,” muses Matt (here’s hoping his actress wife Keeley Hawes, 36, isn’t offended). “Dublin feels very contained. And the set feels like a playground.”


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/tvmagazine/tvmagazinefeatures/4714805/Its-a-Ripper-Matthew-Macfadyen-Jerome-Flynn-and-Adam-Rothenberg-star-in-Jack-the-Ripper-drama-Ripper-Street.html#ixzz2GOcA0RZU

Matthew Macfadyen - The Way We Live Now (BURNT BY THE SUN)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlX58Akh3-4

One of my favorite videos, of one of my favorite actors in one of his very best performances.  The cad - Sir Felix!!!

Love this, sorry that the video is so poor though.

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Ripper Street: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AivtsIXajGQ


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