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You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

Matthew Macfadyen

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Matthew Macfadyen
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Yarmouth
David Matthew Macfadyen
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