Mark Gatiss
Acting
- Born:
- 1966-10-17
- Place of birth:
- Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK
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
Filmography
Bunker
Being Stanley Baxter
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Bookish
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
The Painting & The Statue
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
Moonflower Murders
Time Bandits
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
3 Body Problem
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Hammer A.D. 2023
Juice
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Nolly
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
Peter Davison: Uncut!
Inside Classical
The Road Dance
Operation Mincemeat
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Memento Mori
The Sparks Brothers
A Silent Imprisonment
Locked Down
The Father
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
Tales of the Uncanny
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
In Search of Dracula
Dracula
Doctor Who and the Third Man
Good Omens
Brexit: The Uncivil War
The Dead Room
The Favourite
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
Sally4Ever
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
Christopher Robin
The Mercy
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Gunpowder
Mars: a Traveller's Guide
Against the Law
Taboo
Denial
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Our Kind of Traitor
Dad's Army
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Victor Frankenstein
London Spy
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
The Vote
Release the Hound!
Thunderbirds Are Go!
Coalition
Wolf Hall
Mapp and Lucia
Doctor Who Extra
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
The Real History of Science Fiction
Inside No. 9
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
Unlocking Sherlock
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
M.R. James: Ghost Writer
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
Psychobitches
The Celestial Toyroom
Dr. Forever!
Doctor Who: The Great Detective
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
The Real Sherlock Holmes
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
Playhouse Presents
Cleaning Up
Game of Thrones
The Crimson Petal and the White
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
The First Men in the Moon
A History of Horror
Unlocking Sherlock
Sherlock
Worried About the Boy
Ghosts in the Machine
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Horrible Histories
New Town
Being Human
Crooked House
Clone
Sense and Sensibility
Consenting Adults
British Film Forever
Jekyll
The Worst Journey in the World
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
Grindhouse
The Wind in the Willows
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
Starter for 10
Fear of Fanny
Return of the Goodies
Match Point
Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
Funland
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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'
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Quatermass Experiment
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
Doctor Who Confidential
Doctor Who
Agatha Christie's Marple
Who Do You Think You Are?
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Global Conspiracy?
Spaced: Skip to the End
Shaun of the Dead
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
Catterick
Nighty Night
The Kneale Tapes
Bright Young Things
Little Britain
QI
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
Footballers' Wives
The Cicerones
Tales from Behind the Crypt
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Birthday Girl
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
The Web of Caves
The Kidnappers
The Pitch of Fear
Spaced
The League of Gentlemen
In the Red
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
Midsomer Murders
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
Highgate House of Horror
The Dwelling Place
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
Harry
Agatha Christie's Poirot
A Ghost Story for Christmas
A Ticket Too Far