Matt Smith

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Doctor Who (2014)

The Crown (2017)

Morbius (2022)

Last Night in Soho (2021)

Matthew Robert Smith is an English actor who was born on the 28th of October, 1982 in Northampton, England. Smith is best known for his roles as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who and Prince Philip in the Netflix series The Crown, the latter of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2018. He attended Northampton School for Boys and his is grandfather had played football for Notts County. Smith had also planned to play football, having played for the youth teams of Northampton Town, Nottingham Forest, and Leicester City, becoming captain of the latter's youth team. A serious back injury, however, resulted in spondylolysis and he was unable to continue with a footballing career.

After joining the National Youth Theatre and studying drama and creative writing at the University of East Anglia, he became an actor in 2003, performing in plays including Murder in the Cathedral, Fresh Kills, The History Boys and On the Shore of the Wide World in London theatres. Extending his repertoire into West End theatre in London, he has since performed in the stage adaptation of Swimming with Sharks with famed American actor Christian Slater, followed a year later by a critically acclaimed performance as Henry in That Face.

Smith's first television role came in 2006 as Jim Taylor in the BBC adaptations of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North, while his first major role in television came as Danny in the 2007 BBC series Party Animals. Following after David Tennant, Smith then portrayed the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in the widely successful British sci-fi series Doctor Who from 2010 to 2013, becoming the youngest person to portray the character. In film, he appeared in Martin McDonagh's black comedy crime In Bruges (2008), later portrayed a dual role in Womb (2010), as well as appearing in Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River (2014). Other films credits include playing the physical forms of Skynet in Terminator Genisys (2015), a nineteen-sixties pimp Jack in Last Night in Soho (2019), and living vampire Milo Morbius in Sony’s Morbius (2022). In June 2015, Smith was cast as Prince Philip in the Netflix royal drama The Crown. He played the role for the series' first two seasons, which garnered him with a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2018. In 2021, it was announced that Smith was set to appear as a lead character named Daemon Targaryen in HBO’s fantasy series House of the Dragon, a prequel to the hit series Game of Thrones.