Mark Gatiss
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
166
Gender
Male
Birthday
1966-10-17 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK
Mark Gatiss
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Gatiss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Game of Thrones
Midsomer Murders
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Sherlock
Agatha Christie's Marple
QI
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
3 Body Problem
Taboo
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Inside No. 9
Inside No. 9
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
Who Do You Think You Are?
Shaun of the Dead
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'
Good Omens
Little Britain
Wolf Hall
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
Being Human
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
Horrible Histories
Time Bandits
Time Bandits
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
Dracula
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Birthday Girl
Bookish
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Father
The Favourite: Unstitching the Costume Drama
Thunderbirds Are Go!
Doctor Who Confidential
Doctor Who Confidential
The Favourite
The League of Gentlemen's Christmas Special: Yule Never Leave!
Starter for 10
Tales from Behind the Crypt
Release the Hound!
The Worst Journey in the World
Sense and Sensibility
Match Point
The Mercy
Footballers' Wives
Against the Law
Spaced
Christopher Robin
Operation Mincemeat
The League of Gentlemen
Grindhouse
The First Men in the Moon
Victor Frankenstein
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
A Ghost Story for Christmas
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
The Wind in the Willows
London Spy
Psychoville
Return of the Goodies
The Crimson Petal and the White
Moonflower Murders
Doctor Who Extra
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
Consenting Adults
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
Jekyll
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
New Town
Nighty Night
Cleaning Up
Dad's Army
Funland
Gunpowder
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
Harry
Our Kind of Traitor
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
The Real History of Science Fiction
Unlocking Sherlock
Bright Young Things
The Vote
The Sparks Brothers
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Nolly
Coalition
A History of Horror
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
Putting the Shock into Earthshock
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
Crooked House
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Mars: a Traveller's Guide
Tales of the Uncanny
The Road Dance
Denial
Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
Locked Down
Mapp and Lucia
The Quatermass Experiment
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Juice
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
The Dwelling Place
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
In the Red
The Dead Room
Spaced: Skip to the End
Fear of Fanny
Doctor Who and the Third Man
The Final Curtain
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
The Pitch of Fear
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
The Kneale Tapes
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
Catterick
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
Clone
Hammer A.D. 2023
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
M.R. James: Ghost Writer
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Worried About the Boy
Dr. Forever!
Inside Classical
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
Ghosts in the Machine
Highgate House of Horror
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Doctor Who: The Great Detective
In Search of Dracula
The Cicerones
A Silent Imprisonment
The Web of Caves
Unlocking Sherlock
Memento Mori
The Kidnappers
Peter Davison: Uncut!
Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
Global Conspiracy?
The Celestial Toyroom
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
The Real Sherlock Holmes
