Mark Gatiss
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
163
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
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Game of Thrones
Midsomer Murders
Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Sherlock
Agatha Christie's Marple
QI
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Good Omens
Inside No. 9
Inside No. 9
Taboo
3 Body Problem
Horrible Histories
Doctor Who Confidential
Doctor Who Confidential
Who Do You Think You Are?
Time Bandits
Time Bandits
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Shaun of the Dead
Match Point
Wolf Hall
The Father
Being Human
Little Britain
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
The Sparks Brothers
Dracula
Thunderbirds Are Go!
The Favourite
Footballers' Wives
Spaced
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
Bookish
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
Bright Young Things
The Wind in the Willows
Sense and Sensibility
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
The Celestial Toyroom
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Operation Mincemeat
Dad's Army
Starter for 10
London Spy
Moonflower Murders
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
The Real History of Science Fiction
Our Kind of Traitor
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
Harry
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Victor Frankenstein
The Kneale Tapes
Psychoville
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
Gunpowder
The League of Gentlemen
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Fear of Fanny
The Mercy
Mapp and Lucia
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
Nighty Night
The Worst Journey in the World
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Christopher Robin
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
The Crimson Petal and the White
Locked Down
Grindhouse
The Cicerones
Jekyll
The Dead Room
Funland
Worried About the Boy
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Doctor Who Extra
The Hound of the Baskervilles
New Town
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
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'
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
Crooked House
Nolly
Juice
Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible
A History of Horror
The Pitch of Fear
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
Spaced: Skip to the End
The Kidnappers
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
The Road Dance
The Vote
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
Unlocking Sherlock
The Quatermass Experiment
Birthday Girl
In the Red
Catterick
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Coalition
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
Release the Hound!
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
Consenting Adults
The Dwelling Place
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
Tales of the Uncanny
Denial
Peter Davison: Uncut!
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
Return of the Goodies
Dr. Forever!
Against the Law
Clone
Doctor Who and the Third Man
M.R. James: Ghost Writer
Highgate House of Horror
The Web of Caves
Inside Classical
The Favourite: Unstitching the Costume Drama
Hammer A.D. 2023
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
The First Men in the Moon
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Cleaning Up
Tales from Behind the Crypt
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Ghosts in the Machine
The Real Sherlock Holmes
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
Unlocking Sherlock
Memento Mori
Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
Doctor Who: The Great Detective
Mars: a Traveller's Guide
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
A Silent Imprisonment
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
In Search of Dracula
Global Conspiracy?
