Matthew Goode (born April 3, 1978 [1]) 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 theater director. Goode studied drama at the University of Birmingham and classical theater at London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
