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).
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Acting (99 movies)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
Birthday Girl
2001
The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!
2000
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
2006
A Silent Imprisonment
2021
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
The Quatermass Experiment
2005
The First Men in the Moon
2010
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
2009
Spaced: Skip to the End
2004
Unlocking Sherlock
2014
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
2002
Hammer A.D. 2023
2023
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
2014
Worried About the Boy
2010
Starter for 10
2006
The Wind in the Willows
2006
Fear of Fanny
2006
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
M.R. James: Ghost Writer
2013
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
2004
Victor Frankenstein
2015
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
Doctor Who: The Great Detective
2012
The Hound of the Baskervilles
2023
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
2022
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
The Dead Room
2018
The Kneale Tapes
2003
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024
Coalition
2015
The Vote
2015
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
1996
Cleaning Up
2011
Peter Davison: Uncut!
2022
Dad's Army
2016
Match Point
2005
Bright Young Things
2003
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
Consenting Adults
2007
Our Kind of Traitor
2016
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
2005
Denial
2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
The Real Sherlock Holmes
2012
The Worst Journey in the World
2007
Return of the Goodies
2005
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
2001
Against the Law
2017
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
2002
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1995
The Favourite
2018
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
2015
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017
Christopher Robin
2018
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016
The Mercy
2018
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
2018
Mars: a Traveller's Guide
2017
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
2018
Shaun of the Dead
2004
Global Conspiracy?
2004
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
2018
The Father
2020
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019
New Town
2009
In Search of Dracula
2020
Operation Mincemeat
2022
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
2013
The Kidnappers
1999
The Pitch of Fear
1999
The Web of Caves
1999
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
2020
Locked Down
2021
Doctor Who and the Third Man
2019
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
2012
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
The Sparks Brothers
2021
Highgate House of Horror
1995
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
1995
Grindhouse
2007
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
2020
The Road Dance
2022
Unlocking Sherlock
2010
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'
2005
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
2024
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
2014
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
2025
Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
2005
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
2018
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
2025
The Favourite: Unstitching the Costume Drama
2019
Directing (9 movies)
The Tractate Middoth
2013
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
2023
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
2021
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus
2022
The Dead Room
2018
Martin's Close
2019
Highgate House of Horror
1995
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower
2025