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Mark Gatiss

Born 1966-10-17
📍 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).

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Filmography 161

Being Stanley Baxter
as Self
2025
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
as Ted Gilbert
2025
Bookish
as Gabriel Book
2025
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
as Ted Gilbert (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Angstrom
2025
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
as Self
2024
Moonflower Murders
as Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin
2024
Time Bandits
as Earl of Sandwich
2024
Time Bandits
as Earl of Sandwich (voice)
2024
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
as Sir John Gielgud
2024
3 Body Problem
as Isaac Newton
2024
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Sherlock Holmes
2023
Hammer A.D. 2023
as Self
2023
Juice
as George
2023
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
as NSA
2023
Nolly
as Larry Grayson
2023
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
as Jacob Marley
2022
Peter Davison: Uncut!
as Self
2022
Inside Classical
as Sherlock Holmes
2022
The Road Dance
as Doctor MacLean
2022
Operation Mincemeat
as Ivor Montazac
2022
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
as Mr. Wickens
2021
The Sparks Brothers
as Self
2021
A Silent Imprisonment
as Mr Murphy
2021
Locked Down
as Donald
2021
The Father
as The Man
2020
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
as Self
2020
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self
2020
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
as Self
2020
In Search of Dracula
as Himself - Presenter
2020
Dracula
as Frank Renfield
2020
Doctor Who and the Third Man
as Himself
2019
Good Omens
as Mr. Harmony
2019
Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Peter Mandelson (voice)
2019
The Dead Room
as Radio Announcer (voice)
2018
The Favourite
as Lord Marlborough
2018
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
as George III
2018
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
as Various Characters
2018
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
as Various Characters
2018
Sally4Ever
as Doctor
2018
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
as Himself - Presenter
2018
Christopher Robin
as Giles Winslow
2018
The Mercy
as Ronald Hall
2018
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
as The Captain
2017
Gunpowder
as Sir Robert Cecil
2017
Mars: a Traveller's Guide
as Narrator
2017
Against the Law
as Dr. Landers
2017
Taboo
as Prince Regent
2017
Denial
as Professor Robert Jan van der Pelt
2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
as Joel
2016
Our Kind of Traitor
as Billy Matlock
2016
Dad's Army
as Colonel Theakes
2016
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
as Himself
2016
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as Mycroft Holmes
2016
Victor Frankenstein
as Dettweiler
2015
London Spy
as Rich
2015
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
as Himself
2015
Doctor Who: The Fan Show
2015
The Vote
as Steven Crosswell
2015
Thunderbirds Are Go!
as Dr. Quentin Questa (voice)
2015
Coalition
as Peter Mandelson
2015
Wolf Hall
as Stephen Gardiner
2015
Mapp and Lucia
as Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint
2014
Doctor Who Extra
as Self
2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
as Self
2014
The Real History of Science Fiction
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2014
Inside No. 9
as Callum
2014
Inside No. 9
as Self
2014
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
as Menenius Agrippa
2014
Unlocking Sherlock
as Himself / Mark Gatiss
2014
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
as Self
2014
M.R. James: Ghost Writer
as Presenter
2013
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
as Self
2013
Psychobitches
as Joan Crawford
2013
The Celestial Toyroom
2013
Dr. Forever!
as Himself
2013
Doctor Who: The Great Detective
as Narrator
2012
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
as Self - Host
2012
The Real Sherlock Holmes
as Self
2012
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
as Self - Actor and Writer
2012
Playhouse Presents
as Joan Crawford
2012
Cleaning Up
as Mr Jackson
2011
Game of Thrones
as Tycho Nestoris
2011
The Crimson Petal and the White
as Henry Rackham Junior
2011
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
2010
The First Men in the Moon
as Cavor
2010
A History of Horror
as Self - Presenter
2010
Unlocking Sherlock
as Himself
2010
Sherlock
as Mycroft Holmes
2010
Worried About the Boy
as Malcolm McLaren
2010
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
as Self
2009
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
as Ernest Dunks
2009
Horrible Histories
2009
New Town
as Duff Purves
2009
Being Human
as Mr. Snow
2009
Crooked House
as The Curator
2008
Clone
as Colonel Black
2008
Sense and Sensibility
as John Dashwood
2008
Consenting Adults
as PC Butcher
2007
Jekyll
as Robert Louis Stevenson
2007
The Worst Journey in the World
as Apsley Cherry-Garrard
2007
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
as Himself
2007
Grindhouse
as (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
2007
The Wind in the Willows
as Rat
2006
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
2006
Fear of Fanny
as Johnnie Cradock
2006
Starter for 10
as Bamber Gascoigne
2006
Return of the Goodies
as Himself
2005
Match Point
as Ping-Pong Player
2005
Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
2005
Funland
as Ambrose Chapfel
2005
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Miss Blight (voice)
2005
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
2005
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
as Various Characters
2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Additional Vogon Voices
2005
The Quatermass Experiment
as John Paterson
2005
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
as Self
2005
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
Doctor Who
as Gantok
2005
Doctor Who
as Richard Lazarus
2005
Doctor Who Confidential
as Narrator
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Ronald Hawes
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2004
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
as Kenyon
2004
Global Conspiracy?
as Terry Scanlon
2004
Spaced: Skip to the End
as Self
2004
Shaun of the Dead
as Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited)
2004
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
as Jeremy
2004
Catterick
as Peter
2004
Nighty Night
as Glenn Bulb
2004
The Kneale Tapes
as Self
2003
Bright Young Things
as House Agent
2003
Little Britain
2003
QI
as Self
2003
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
as Viking (voice)
2002
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
as Louis Aragon
2002
Footballers' Wives
as Teddy - Agent
2002
The Cicerones
as John Trant
2002
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
as various
2001
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
as Hang Man Chang
2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
2001
Birthday Girl
as Porter
2001
The Web of Caves
as The Doctor
1999
The Kidnappers
as Mark
1999
The Pitch of Fear
as Mr. Borusa
1999
Spaced
as Agent
1999
The League of Gentlemen
as Various
1999
In the Red
as Junior Detective
1998
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
1998
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997
Midsomer Murders
as Rev Giles Shawcross
1997
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
as Mr. Emerson
1996
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
as Self - Interviewer
1996
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
as Georgie
1995
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1995
Highgate House of Horror
as Mr Banham
1995
The Dwelling Place
as Bowmer
1994
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
as Dr. William Bruffin
1994
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Leonard Boynton
1989
A Ghost Story for Christmas
as Radio Presenter (Voice)
1971
The Painting & The Statue
as Old Lord/Butler 'Smith'/Dancing Man/Old Lord 'Johnny'