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impressive as Edwardian businessman Henry Wilcox in the BBC’s new Sunday night drama Howards End, Matthew Macfadyen needed extra help in the hirsute department. ‘I spent a lot of time having individual hairs added with glue because my own beard wasn’t lustrous enough,’ admits the actor, 43, who has two children, aged 11 and 12 with his wife, actress Keeley Hawes, 41. ‘After filming, the beard came off because my children were getting worried.’