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 | — | |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1966 |
| From | Sedgefield, Durham, England, … |