
Mark Gatiss
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
Credits
- 2025 · The Fantastic Four: First Steps as Ted Gilbert
- 2025 · Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning as NSA
- 2024 · 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 · 3 Body Problem as Isaac Newton
- 2024 · National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue as Sir John Gielgud
- 2023 · The Hound of the Baskervilles as Sherlock Holmes
- 2023 · Hammer A.D. 2023 as Self
- 2023 · Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One as NSA
- 2023 · Nolly as Larry Grayson
- 2022 · 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
- 2021 · The Amazing Mr. Blunden as Mr. Wickens
- 2021 · Memento Mori as Henry Huxley
- 2021 · The Sparks Brothers as Self
- 2021 · A Silent Imprisonment as Mr Murphy
- 2021 · Locked Down as Donald
- 2020 · 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 Himself
- 2020 · In Search of Dracula as Himself - Presenter
- 2020 · Dracula as Frank Renfield
- 2019 · Doctor Who and the Third Man as Himself
- 2019 · Good Omens as Mr. Harmony
- 2019 · Brexit: The Uncivil War as Peter Mandelson (voice)
- 2018 · 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 · 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
- 2017 · 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
- 2016 · 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
- 2015 · Victor Frankenstein as Dettweiler
- 2015 · London Spy as Rich
- 2015 · Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet as Himself
- 2015 · The Vote as Steven Crosswell
- 2015 · Release the Hound! as Self
- 2015 · Thunderbirds Are Go! as Dr. Quentin Questa (voice)
- 2015 · Coalition as Peter Mandelson
- 2015 · Wolf Hall as Stephen Gardiner
- 2014 · 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
- 2013 · M.R. James: Ghost Writer as Presenter
- 2013 · Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor as Self
- 2013 · Dr. Forever! as Himself
- 2012 · 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
- 2011 · Cleaning Up as Mr Jackson
- 2011 · Game of Thrones as Tycho Nestoris
- 2011 · The Crimson Petal and the White as Henry Rackham Junior
- 2010 · Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge as
- 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 · Sherlock as Self
- 2010 · Sherlock as Self / Mycroft Holmes
- 2010 · Worried About the Boy as Malcolm McLaren
- 2009 · Ghosts in the Machine as Himself
- 2009 · Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self
- 2009 · Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen as Ernest Dunks
- 2009 · Psychoville as
- 2009 · Horrible Histories as
- 2009 · New Town as Duff Purves
- 2009 · Being Human as Mr. Snow
- 2008 · Crooked House as The Curator
- 2008 · Clone as Colonel Black
- 2008 · Only Connect as Self - Contestant
- 2008 · Sense and Sensibility as John Dashwood
- 2007 · 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 · Don't as Roddy McDowel
- 2006 · The Wind in the Willows as Rat
- 2006 · The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You! as
- 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
- 2005 · Return of the Goodies as Himself
- 2005 · Match Point as Ping-Pong Player
- 2005 · Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment' as
- 2005 · Funland as
- 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 as Gantok
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Richard Lazarus
- 2005 · Doctor Who as The Captain
- 2005 · Doctor Who Confidential as
- 2005 · Doctor Who Confidential as Narrator
- 2005 · Doctor Who: A New Dimension as Self
- 2004 · 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
- 2004 · Nighty Night as Glenn Bulb
- 2003 · The Kneale Tapes as Self
- 2003 · Bright Young Things as House Agent
- 2003 · Little Britain as
- 2003 · QI as Self
- 2002 · 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
- 2001 · 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
- 2000 · The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave! as
- 2000 · Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) as
- 1999 · The Pitch of Fear as Mr. Borusa
- 1999 · The Web of Caves as The Doctor
- 1999 · The Kidnappers as Mark
- 1999 · Spaced as Agent
- 1999 · The League of Gentlemen as
- 1998 · In the Red as Junior Detective
- 1998 · This Morning with Richard Not Judy as
- 1997 · Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up as
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Rev Giles Shawcross
- Future · Bookish as Gabriel Book
- 1996 · Unnatural Selection as Mr. Emerson
- 1996 · Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary as Self - Interviewer
- 1995 · The Devil of Winterborne as Georgie
- 1995 · Highgate House of Horror as Mr Banham
- 1995 · Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen as
- 1994 · The Dwelling Place as Bowmer
- 1994 · The Zero Imperative as Dr. William Bruffin
- 1993 · Harry as Diner Manager
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Leonard Boynton