Name
Mark Gatiss
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1966-10-17 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK
Biography
Mark Gatiss (/ˈɡeɪtɪs/; born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. He is best known for his work on television, acting in and co-creating shows with Steven Moffat. Gatiss has received several awards, including a BAFTA TV Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and two Laurence Olivier Awards.
Gatiss co-created, co-wrote and acted in the BBC comedy series The League of Gentlemen (1999–2002). He co-created and portrayed Mycroft Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock (2010–2017) and Frank Renfield in the BBC / Netflix miniseries Dracula (2020). He also wrote several episodes of Doctor Who during Moffat's tenure as showrunner and two episodes during Russell T Davies' earlier tenure. His other TV roles include Tycho Nestoris in Game of Thrones (2014–2017), Stephen Gardiner in Wolf Hall (2015), and Peter Mandelson in Coalition (2015). He has acted in films such as Victor Frankenstein (2015), Denial (2016), Christopher Robin (2018), The Favourite (2018), The Father (2020), Operation Mincemeat (2021), and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023).
On stage, Gatiss played Menenius in the revival of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus (2013), for which he earned a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination. He took on the role of King George III in a revival of the Alan Bennett play The Madness of George III (2018). He portrayed Sir John Gielgud in the Jack Thorne play The Motive and the Cue (2023), for which he earned the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. His other theatre roles include The Recruiting Officer (2012), The Vote (2015), and A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (2021).
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- 2005 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Miss Blight (voice)
- 2001 Birthday Girl as Porter
- 2021 Memento Mori as Henry Huxley
- 1997 Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
- 2006 The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You as Hilary Briss / Mickey Michaels / Val Denton / Les McQueen / Lance Longthorne / Alvin Steele / Phil Proctor / Mrs Beasley / Mick McNamara / Neds / Lotte Lipp / Brian Morgan / Dr Chinnery / Iris Krell / Bobbin
- 2021 A Silent Imprisonment as Mr Murphy
- 2004 Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures as Kenyon
- 2021 The Amazing Mr. Blunden as Mr. Wickens
- 2020 Tales of the Uncanny as Self
- 2009 Ghosts in the Machine as Himself
- 2005 The Quatermass Experiment as John Paterson
- 2010 The First Men in the Moon as Cavor
- 2002 The Cicerones as John Trant
- 2009 Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen as Ernest Dunks
- 2004 Spaced: Skip to the End as Self
- 2014 Unlocking Sherlock as Himself / Mark Gatiss
- 2002 Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe as Viking (voice)
- 2023 Hammer A.D. 2023 as Self
- 2014 National Theatre Live: Coriolanus as Menenius Agrippa
- 2010 Worried About the Boy as Malcolm McLaren
- 2006 Starter for 10 as Bamber Gascoigne
- 2006 The Wind in the Willows as Rat
- 2006 Fear of Fanny as Johnnie Cradock
- 2005 The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse as Various Characters
- 2013 M.R. James: Ghost Writer as Presenter
- 2004 Sex Lives of the Potato Men as Jeremy
- 2015 Victor Frankenstein as Dettweiler
- 2014 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy as Self
- 2012 Doctor Who: The Great Detective as Narrator
- 2023 The Hound of the Baskervilles as Sherlock Holmes
- 2022 A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story as Jacob Marley
- 2012 Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss as Self - Host
- 2018 The Dead Room as Radio Announcer (voice)
- 2003 The Kneale Tapes as Self
- 2024 National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue as Sir John Gielgud
- 2015 Coalition as Peter Mandelson
- 2015 The Vote as Steven Crosswell
- 1994 PROBE: The Zero Imperative as Dr. William Bruffin
- 1996 PROBE: Unnatural Selection as Mr. Emerson
- 2011 Cleaning Up as Mr Jackson
- 2022 Peter Davison: Uncut! as Self
- 2016 Dad's Army as Colonel Theakes
- 2005 Match Point as Ping-Pong Player
- 2003 Bright Young Things as House Agent
- 2016 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride as Mycroft Holmes
- 2007 Consenting Adults as PC Butcher
- 2016 Our Kind of Traitor as Billy Matlock
- 2005 Doctor Who: A New Dimension as Self
- 2016 Denial as Professor Robert Jan van Pelt
- 2016 Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie as Joel
- 2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Additional Vogon Voices
- 2012 The Real Sherlock Holmes as Self
- 2007 The Worst Journey in the World as Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- 2005 Return of the Goodies as Himself
- 2001 The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane as various
- 2017 Against the Law as Dr. Landers
- 2002 Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Louis Aragon
- 1996 Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary as Self - Interviewer
- 1995 Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
- 2018 The Favourite as Lord Marlborough
- 2015 Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet as Himself
- 2017 Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time as The Captain
- 2018 Christopher Robin as Giles Winslow
- 2016 Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock as Himself
- 2018 The Mercy as Ronald Hall
- 2018 National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III as George III
- 2017 Mars: a Traveller's Guide as Narrator
- 2018 Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art as Himself - Presenter
- 2004 Shaun of the Dead as Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited)
- 2004 Global Conspiracy? as Terry Scanlon
- 2020 The Father as The Man
- 2019 Brexit: The Uncivil War as Peter Mandelson (voice)
- 2009 New Town as Duff Purves
- 2020 In Search of Dracula as Himself - Presenter
- 2022 Operation Mincemeat as Ivor Montazac
- 2013 Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor as Self
- 1999 The Kidnappers as Mark
- 1999 The Pitch of Fear as Mr. Borusa
- 1999 The Web of Caves as The Doctor
- 2020 Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Self
- 2021 Locked Down as Donald
- 2019 Doctor Who and the Third Man as Himself
- 2012 Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness as Self - Actor and Writer
- 2023 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One as NSA
- 2015 Release the Hound! as Self
- 2021 The Sparks Brothers as Self
- 1995 Highgate House of Horror as Mr Banham
- 1995 PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne as Georgie
- 2007 Grindhouse as (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
- 2020 Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
- 2022 The Road Dance as Doctor MacLean
- 2010 Unlocking Sherlock as Himself
- 2005 Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self - The League of Gentlemen
- 2025 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning as Angstrom
- 2024 Inside No. 9: The Party's Over as Self
- 2014 How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective as Self
- 2025 The Fantastic 4: First Steps as Ted Gilbert
- 2005 Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
- 2013 The Celestial Toyroom
- 2002 Tales from Behind the Crypt as Self
- 2025 Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere as Ted Gilbert (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2025 Being Stanley Baxter as Self
- 2025 The Painting & The Statue as Old Lord/Butler 'Smith'/Dancing Man/Old Lord 'Johnny'
- 2027 Bunker as Simon
- 2018 The League of Gentlemen - Live Again! as Multiple Characters
- Soon A Ticket Too Far as Marshall
- 2007 Jekyll ( 6 episodes ) as Robert Louis Stevenson
- 1999 Spaced ( 1 episode ) as Agent
- 1998 This Morning with Richard Not Judy ( 18 episodes )
- 2005 Doctor Who Confidential ( 3 episodes )
- 2003 QI ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2001 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1999 The League of Gentlemen ( 18 episodes ) as Various
- 2013 Dr. Forever! ( 5 episodes ) as Himself
- 2000 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) ( 1 episode )
- 2008 Clone ( 6 episodes ) as Colonel Black
- 2010 Sherlock ( 11 episodes ) as Mycroft Holmes
- 2008 Crooked House ( 3 episodes ) as The Curator
- 2010 A History of Horror ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Presenter
- 2005 Doctor Who ( 2 episodes ) as Gantok
- 2011 The Crimson Petal and the White ( 4 episodes ) as Henry Rackham Junior
- 1997 Midsomer Murders ( 1 episode ) as Rev Giles Shawcross
- 2004 Who Do You Think You Are? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2009 Horrible Histories ( 9 episodes )
- 2015 London Spy ( 1 episode ) as Rich
- 2004 Catterick ( 1 episode ) as Peter
- 2007 Derren Brown: Trick or Treat ( 1 episode ) as Himself
- 2003 Little Britain ( 1 episode )
- 2010 Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge ( 1 episode )
- 2005 Doctor Who ( 1 episode ) as Richard Lazarus
- 2009 Doctor Who Greatest Moments ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2014 Mapp and Lucia ( 3 episodes ) as Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint
- 2011 Game of Thrones ( 4 episodes ) as Tycho Nestoris
- 2004 Nighty Night ( 10 episodes ) as Glenn Bulb
- 2015 Thunderbirds Are Go! ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Quentin Questa (voice)
- 2017 Gunpowder ( 3 episodes ) as Sir Robert Cecil
- 1994 The Dwelling Place ( 3 episodes ) as Bowmer
- 2014 Inside No. 9 ( 1 episode ) as Callum
- 2014 The Real History of Science Fiction ( 4 episodes ) as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- 2014 Doctor Who Extra ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2022 Inside Classical ( 1 episode ) as Sherlock Holmes
- 2004 Agatha Christie's Marple ( 1 episode ) as Ronald Hawes
- 2024 3 Body Problem ( 1 episode ) as Isaac Newton
- 2019 Good Omens ( 2 episodes ) as Mr. Harmony
- 2025 Bookish ( 12 episodes ) as Gabriel Book
- 2005 Doctor Who Confidential ( 13 episodes ) as Narrator
- 1989 Agatha Christie's Poirot ( 1 episode ) as Leonard Boynton
- 2023 Nolly ( 3 episodes ) as Larry Grayson
- 2014 Inside No. 9 ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2002 Footballers' Wives ( 1 episode ) as Teddy - Agent
- 2024 Time Bandits ( 1 episode ) as Earl of Sandwich
- 2024 Time Bandits ( 1 episode ) as Earl of Sandwich (voice)
- 2020 Dracula ( 3 episodes ) as Frank Renfield
- 2015 Wolf Hall ( 4 episodes ) as Stephen Gardiner
- 2017 Taboo ( 5 episodes ) as Prince Regent
- 2009 Being Human ( 2 episodes ) as Mr. Snow
- 2008 Sense and Sensibility ( 2 episodes ) as John Dashwood
- 1993 Harry ( 1 episode ) as Diner Manager
- 2023 Juice ( 1 episode ) as George
- 1971 A Ghost Story for Christmas ( 1 episode ) as Radio Presenter (Voice)
- 1998 In the Red ( 3 episodes ) as Junior Detective
- 2001 Dr Terrible's House of Horrible ( 1 episode ) as Hang Man Chang
- 2013 Psychobitches ( 1 episode ) as Joan Crawford
- 2005 Funland ( 4 episodes ) as Ambrose Chapfel
- 2012 Playhouse Presents ( 1 episode ) as Joan Crawford
- 2018 Sally4Ever ( 2 episodes ) as Doctor
- 2007 British Film Forever ( 1 episode )
- 2005 Doctor Who Confidential ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2024 Moonflower Murders ( 5 episodes ) as Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin
- 2003 100 Greatest Scary Moments ( 2 episodes )
