I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.

Macfadyen appeared in films including Enigma (released in 2001) and In My Father's Den for which he received the New Zealand Screen Award for Best Actor. In 2010 he played the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood. D.

Darcy in Pride & Prejudice and Daniel in the Frank Oz comedy Death at a Funeral. David Matthew Macfadyen (born 17 October 1974) is a BAFTA award-winning English actor known for his roles as MI5 Intelligence Officer Tom Quinn in the BBC television drama series Spooks Mr.