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Mark Gatiss

Mark Gatiss

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Born October 17, 1966, Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (37)
  • 2025Being Stanley Baxter — Self
  • 2024Inside No. 9: The Party's Over — Self
  • 2023Hammer A.D. 2023 — Self
  • 2022Peter Davison: Uncut! — Self
  • 2021The Sparks Brothers — Self
  • 2020Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World — Self
  • 2020In Search of Dracula — Himself - Presenter
  • 2020Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley — Self
  • 2020Tales of the Uncanny — Self
  • 2019Doctor Who and the Third Man — Himself
  • 2018Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art — Himself - Presenter
  • 2016Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock — Himself
  • 2015Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet — Himself
  • 2015Release the Hound! — Self
  • 201450 Years of BBC Two Comedy — Self
  • Doctor Who Extra — Self
  • 2014How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective — Self
  • The Real History of Science Fiction — Himself - Narrator (voice)
  • 2014Unlocking Sherlock — Himself / Mark Gatiss
  • 2013Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor — Self
  • Dr. Forever! — Himself
  • 2012Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness — Self - Actor and Writer
  • 2012The Real Sherlock Holmes — Self
  • 2010Unlocking Sherlock — Himself
  • Doctor Who Greatest Moments — Self
  • 2009Ghosts in the Machine — Himself
  • Derren Brown: Trick or Treat — Himself
  • 2005Doctor Who: A New Dimension — Self
  • 2005Don'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' — Self - The League of Gentlemen
  • 2005Return of the Goodies — Himself
  • 2004Spaced: Skip to the End — Self
  • Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
  • QI — Self
  • 2003The Kneale Tapes — Self
  • 2002Tales from Behind the Crypt — Self
  • Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self
  • 1996Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary — Self - Interviewer
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