Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

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.