TOO HOT TUESDAY!! MATTHEW GOODE

Despite a series of supporting roles in several films over the last half of the decade, this week's TOO Hot Tuesday!! choice, British actor Matthew Goode, is still probably not that well-known to most. That is likely to all change next spring once the film version of the cult classic graphic novel WATCHMEN, in which Matthew plays the role of Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, hits theaters.

Learn more about this 6-foot-2 buff Brit . . . and enjoy more pics (including one of Matthew in costume as Ozymandias) . . . after the jump!

Matthew Goode was born in Exeter, England on April 3, 1978 to a geologist father and a nurse mother, who was also an amateur theater director. He is the youngest of five siblings.

Goode studied drama @ the University of Birmingham and classical theater @ London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Some of Matthew's first roles were in the BBC's INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES and a 2002 ABC production of CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER . . . not to mention the London stage production of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST.

Goode made his major Hollywood debut in the 2004 teen romantic comedy/Mandy Moore vehicle CHASING LIBERTY, in which he played the role of Ben Calder, a British government agent assigned to protect the daughter (Moore) of the U.S. President.

Matthew has since gone on to appear in such films as Woody Allen's MATCH POINT, the lesbian romantic comedy IMAGINE ME & YOU, COPYING BEETHOVEN, and THE LOOKOUT. Goode is soon to be seen in the 2008 remake of the classic BRIDESHEAD REVISTED, based on the 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel of the same name.

Matthew Goode is likely to reach levels of international superstardom once the afore-mentioned WATCHMEN hits theaters on March 6, 2009. The graphic novel on which the film is based is routinely hailed as a literary masterpiece, and has an avid cult following. Indeed, the most buzzed about event at this year's upcoming Comic-Con 2008 is the screening of special teaser footage of the film, and the film has already gotten an ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY cover story a good seven months before it's even released!

In WATCHMEN . . . which is being directed by Zack Snyder, the man who brought the guy-candy epic 300, which was also based on a famous graphic novel, to life . . . Matthew Goode plays the role of Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias (see pic above). Veidt, dubbed "the smartest man in the world," is also a world-class athlete and acrobat.

**I will admit the neither Derrick nor I are very familiar with WATCHMEN, but all of the early buzz has certainly piqued our attentions. This is definitely one of the films I am most looking forward to seeing in 2009. ~Warren