Matthew Macfadyen

David Matthew Macfadyen is a British stage and television actor born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England on October 17th, 1974. In 2008, Matthew played Arthur Clennam in the television miniseries Little Dorrit, which was based on a story by Charles Dickens. From 2012-2013, Matthew had another starring role in a perdiod drama - that of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid in the Victorian-era crime drama Ripper Street. He appeared in all fifteen episodes of the program.