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Mark Gatiss

Mark Gatiss

Acting
Born: Oct 17, 1966
From: Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK
Credits: 30 titles

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 …

Filmography

Title Character Year Rating
Hammer A.D. 2023 Self 2023 7.5
The Hound of the Baskervilles Sherlock Holmes 2023 8.0
Memento Mori Henry Huxley 2021
A Silent Imprisonment Mr Murphy 2021
The Amazing Mr. Blunden Mr. Wickens 2021 6.33
Tales of the Uncanny Self 2020 7.0
Victor Frankenstein Dettweiler 2015 5.9
Unlocking Sherlock Himself / Mark Gatiss 2014 7.9
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus Menenius Agrippa 2014 8.2
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy Self 2014 8.0
M.R. James: Ghost Writer Presenter 2013 8.7
Doctor Who: The Great Detective Narrator 2012 7.8
The First Men in the Moon Cavor 2010 5.796
Worried About the Boy Malcolm McLaren 2010 6.3
Ghosts in the Machine Himself 2009
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen Ernest Dunks 2009 7.3
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You Hilary Briss / Mickey Michaels … 2006 7.6
The Wind in the Willows Rat 2006 5.8
Starter for 10 Bamber Gascoigne 2006 6.381
Fear of Fanny Johnnie Cradock 2006 7.1
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Miss Blight (voice) 2005 7.116
The Quatermass Experiment John Paterson 2005 5.617
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse Various Characters 2005 6.224
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures Kenyon 2004 8.0
Spaced: Skip to the End Self 2004 6.269
Sex Lives of the Potato Men Jeremy 2004 4.53
The Cicerones John Trant 2002 5.833
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe Viking (voice) 2002 5.4
Birthday Girl Porter 2001 5.917
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up 1997
Quick Facts
Known forActing
Credits30
Born1966
FromSedgefield, Durham, England, …