DAN
STEVENS

Dan Stevens is an English actor born in Croydon on 10 October 1982. He studied English literature at Cambridge, where he participated in student theatre before working on stage and screen.

His early theatre work included playing Orlando in As You Like It. Television adaptations followed, among them The Line of Beauty and Sense & Sensibility, building a career grounded in literary drama.

Stevens became widely known as Matthew Crawley in Downton Abbey, the period drama about the Crawley family and the people working in their household. The role gave him an international audience.

After Downton Abbey, he took the lead in the thriller The Guest (2014). He later played the Beast opposite Dan Stevens in Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast (2017), moving between suspense and musical fantasy.

On television he played David Haller in Legion, a series that explores the character’s unstable perceptions through an unusual visual style. The film credits linked here are drawn from the FLM.RED catalogue and are not his complete filmography.