Classically trained, consummate actor Malcolm Goodwin can next be seen playing a lead role in the Amazon Studios and Sky dance Media new series, Reacher, based on Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels. Goodwin will star as Chief Detective Oscar Finlay, a Harvard-educated, tweed suit-wearing Northerner who recently relocated to the small town of Margrave to take a job in the Margrave Police Department. The show is set to premiere January 22 on Prime Video.
Most recently, Goodwin was a lead on the super popular CW series iZombie, for five seasons and also directed an episode after completing the Warner Brothers Directors Workshop. Goodwin has established his own production company for which he is producing and directing new work.
He began his career in film working with seminal directors - Ridley Scott in American Gangster, Spike Lee in Miracle at St. Anna and George Clooney in L
Classically trained, consummate actor Malcolm Goodwin can next be seen playing a lead role in the Amazon Studios and Sky dance Media new series, Reacher, based on Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels. Goodwin will star as Chief Detective Oscar Finlay, a Harvard-educated, tweed suit-wearing Northerner who recently relocated to the small town of Margrave to take a job in the Margrave Police Department. The show is set to premiere January 22 on Prime Video.
Most recently, Goodwin was a lead on the super popular CW series iZombie, for five seasons and also directed an episode after completing the Warner Brothers Directors Workshop. Goodwin has established his own production company for which he is producing and directing new work.
He began his career in film working with seminal directors - Ridley Scott in American Gangster, Spike Lee in Miracle at St. Anna and George Clooney in Leatherheads in which he developed a relationship with co-star John Krasinski, who then hired Goodwin to play a key role in his directorial debut, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Other leading roles were in The Longshots opposite Ice Cube and Keke Palmer, The Lazurus Project alongside Paul Walker and Linda Cardellini, Run All Night with Liam Neeson and Ed Harris, The Architect opposite Viola Davis and Mississippi Damned opposite Tessa Thompson and directed by Tina Mabry (Sundance). Television credits include a series regular role on Breakout Kings for two seasons, guest leads on House of Cards (dir. Jodie Foster), Project Blue Book (prod. Robert Zemeckis), True Blood and Wayward Pines (dir. M. Night Shyamalan). Goodwin also makes an appearance in the music video for the hit song “Party Rock Anthem,” which has over 2 billion views on YouTube.
