Mark Gatiss
Born: 1966-10-17 in Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning as Angstrom
- The Fantastic 4: First Steps as Ted Gilbert
- Bookish as Gabriel Book
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower ... (Director)
- Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere as Ted Gilbert (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
- 3 Body Problem as Isaac Newton
- Time Bandits as Earl of Sandwich
- Inside No. 9: The Party's Over as Self
- Moonflower Murders as Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin
- National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue as Sir John Gielgud
2023
- Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One as NSA
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 ... (Screenplay)
- Nolly as Larry Grayson
- Hammer A.D. 2023 as Self
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Sherlock Holmes
- Juice as George
2022
- Operation Mincemeat as Ivor Montazac
- The Road Dance as Doctor MacLean
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus ... (Director)
- A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story as Jacob Marley
- Inside Classical as Sherlock Holmes
- Peter Davison: Uncut! as Self
2021
- The Amazing Mr. Blunden as Mr. Wickens
- The Sparks Brothers as Self
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint ... (Director)
- Locked Down as Donald
- A Silent Imprisonment as Mr Murphy
- Memento Mori as Henry Huxley
2020
- The Father as The Man
- Dracula as Frank Renfield
- Tales of the Uncanny as Self
- Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
- In Search of Dracula as Himself - Presenter
- Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Self
2019
- Good Omens as Mr. Harmony
- Brexit: The Uncivil War as Peter Mandelson (voice)
- Martin's Close ... (Executive Producer)
- The Favourite: Unstitching the Costume Drama as Self
- Doctor Who and the Third Man as Himself
2018
- The Mercy as Ronald Hall
- The Favourite as Lord Marlborough
- Christopher Robin as Giles Winslow
- The Dead Room as Radio Announcer (voice)
- The League of Gentlemen - Live Again! as Various Characters
- The League of Gentlemen - Live Again! as Various Characters
- National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III as George III
- Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art as Himself - Presenter
2017
- Taboo as Prince Regent
- Against the Law as Dr. Landers
- Gunpowder as Sir Robert Cecil
- Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time as The Captain
- Queers. ... (Director)
- Mars: a Traveller's Guide as Narrator
2016
- Our Kind of Traitor as Billy Matlock
- Dad's Army as Colonel Theakes
- Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie as Joel
- Sherlock: The Abominable Bride as Mycroft Holmes
- Denial as Professor Robert Jan van der Pelt
- Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock as Himself
2015
- Wolf Hall as Stephen Gardiner
- Thunderbirds Are Go! as Dr. Quentin Questa (voice)
- The Vote as Steven Crosswell
- Victor Frankenstein as Dettweiler
- Coalition as Peter Mandelson
- London Spy as Rich
- Release the Hound! as Self
- Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet as Himself
2014
- Inside No. 9 as Callum
- Unlocking Sherlock as Himself / Mark Gatiss
- 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy as Self
- National Theatre Live: Coriolanus as Menenius Agrippa
- The Real History of Science Fiction as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- Doctor Who Extra as Self
- Mapp and Lucia as Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint
- How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective as Self
2013
- The Tractate Middoth ... (Director)
- Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor as Self
- An Adventure in Space and Time ... (Writer)
- Sherlock: Many Happy Returns ... (Writer)
- M.R. James: Ghost Writer as Presenter
- Dr. Forever! as Himself
- The Celestial Toyroom
2012
- Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss as Self - Host
- Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness as Self - Actor and Writer
- Doctor Who: The Great Detective as Narrator
- The Real Sherlock Holmes as Self
2011
- Game of Thrones as Tycho Nestoris
- Cleaning Up as Mr Jackson
- The Crimson Petal and the White as Henry Rackham Junior
- The Final Curtain as Self
2010
- Sherlock as Mycroft Holmes
- The First Men in the Moon as Cavor
- A History of Horror as Self - Presenter
- Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
- Worried About the Boy as Malcolm McLaren
- Unlocking Sherlock as Himself
- Global Conspiracy Interviews as Self
2009
- Horrible Histories
- Being Human as Mr. Snow
- New Town as Duff Purves
- Psychoville
- Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self
- Ghosts in the Machine as Himself
- Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen as Ernest Dunks
2008
- Sense and Sensibility as John Dashwood
- Crooked House as The Curator
- Clone as Colonel Black
2007
- Consenting Adults as PC Butcher
- Grindhouse as (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
- Jekyll as Robert Louis Stevenson
- A New Body at Last ... (Thanks)
- The Worst Journey in the World as Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Derren Brown: Trick or Treat as Himself
2006
- The Wind in the Willows as Rat
- Starter for 10 as Bamber Gascoigne
- Fear of Fanny as Johnnie Cradock
- The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You as Hilary Briss / Mickey Michaels / Val Denton / Les McQueen / Lance Longthorne / Alvin Steele / Phil Proctor / Mrs Beasley / Mick McNamara / Neds / Lotte Lipp / Brian Morgan / Dr Chinnery / Iris Krell / Bobbin
2005
- Doctor Who as Gantok
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Miss Blight (voice)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Additional Vogon Voices
- Match Point as Ping-Pong Player
- Doctor Who Confidential
- The Quatermass Experiment as John Paterson
- The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse as Various Characters
- Funland
- Return of the Goodies as Himself
- 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' as Self - The League of Gentlemen
- Doctor Who: A New Dimension as Self
- Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Ronald Hawes
- Shaun of the Dead as Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited)
- Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures as Kenyon
- Sex Lives of the Potato Men as Jeremy
- Spaced: Skip to the End as Self
- Nighty Night as Glenn Bulb
- Catterick as Peter
- Global Conspiracy? as Terry Scanlon
2003
- QI as Self
- Little Britain
- Bright Young Things as House Agent
- The Kneale Tapes as Self
- Putting the Shock into Earthshock as Self
2002
- Footballers' Wives as Teddy - Agent
- Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe as Viking (voice)
- Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Louis Aragon
- Tales from Behind the Crypt as Self
- The Cicerones as John Trant
2001
- Birthday Girl as Porter
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
- Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible as Hang Man Chang
- The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane as various
2000
1999
- Spaced as Agent
- The League of Gentlemen as Various
- The Web of Caves as The Doctor
- The Pitch of Fear as Mr. Borusa
- The Kidnappers as Mark
1998
- In the Red as Junior Detective
- This Morning with Richard Not Judy
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Rev Giles Shawcross
- Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1996
- Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary as Self - Interviewer
- PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne ... (Writer)
- PROBE: Unnatural Selection as Mr. Emerson
1995
- PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne as Georgie
- Highgate House of Horror as Mr Banham
- Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1994
- PROBE: The Zero Imperative as Dr. William Bruffin
- The Dwelling Place as Bowmer
1993
- Harry as Diner Manager
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Leonard Boynton
1971
- A Ghost Story for Christmas as Radio Presenter (Voice)