Mark Gatiss
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
168
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
Midsomer Murders
Game of Thrones
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Agatha Christie's Marple
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Sherlock
QI
Inside No. 9
Inside No. 9
Taboo
3 Body Problem
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Bookish
Good Omens
Little Britain
Coalition
Who Do You Think You Are?
Horrible Histories
Shaun of the Dead
Wolf Hall
Footballers' Wives
The Vote
Time Bandits
Time Bandits
Dracula
Being Human
Unlocking Sherlock
The Kneale Tapes
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
New Town
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Doctor Who Confidential
Doctor Who Confidential
Dad's Army
London Spy
Birthday Girl
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
The Favourite
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Spaced
The Father
Match Point
Sense and Sensibility
Cleaning Up
Grindhouse
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Thunderbirds Are Go!
M.R. James: Ghost Writer
Moonflower Murders
Christopher Robin
The Dead Room
Victor Frankenstein
Funland
Gunpowder
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
The League of Gentlemen
The Real History of Science Fiction
The Web of Caves
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
Highgate House of Horror
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
Psychoville
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Operation Mincemeat
Nighty Night
The Crimson Petal and the White
Doctor Who Extra
The Kidnappers
Jekyll
Denial
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Hammer A.D. 2023
The Mercy
Harry
Our Kind of Traitor
Bright Young Things
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
Nolly
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
Locked Down
Starter for 10
Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible
A History of Horror
In the Red
Juice
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
The Sparks Brothers
Crooked House
Mapp and Lucia
Brexit: The Uncivil War
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
Clone
Tales of the Uncanny
The Dwelling Place
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Doctor Who: The Great Detective
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
The Quatermass Experiment
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
The Wind in the Willows
The Road Dance
Catterick
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
The Favourite: Unstitching the Costume Drama
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
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'
Dr. Forever!
Inside Classical
Worried About the Boy
Memento Mori
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
The First Men in the Moon
Spaced: Skip to the End
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
Doctor Who: The Fan Show
Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Consenting Adults
Fear of Fanny
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
Unlocking Sherlock
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
Mars: a Traveller's Guide
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Return of the Goodies
Against the Law
The Pitch of Fear
The Real Sherlock Holmes
The Cicerones
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
Peter Davison: Uncut!
A Silent Imprisonment
Doctor Who and the Third Man
The Worst Journey in the World
Tales from Behind the Crypt
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
Sherlock: His Last Vow
Release the Hound!
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
The League of Gentlemen's Christmas Special: Yule Never Leave!
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
In Search of Dracula
Being Stanley Baxter
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
Global Conspiracy?
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
Ghosts in the Machine
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
The Celestial Toyroom
