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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Gatiss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Game of Thrones

Midsomer Murders

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Marple

QI

Sherlock

All Movies (104)

• Being Stanley Baxter2025 · as Self
• The Fantastic 4: First Steps2025 · as Ted Gilbert
• Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere2025 · as Ted Gilbert (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning2025 · as Angstrom
• Inside No. 9: The Party's Over2024 · as Self
• National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue2024 · as Sir John Gielgud
• The Hound of the Baskervilles2023 · as Sherlock Holmes
• Hammer A.D. 20232023 · as Self
• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One2023 · as NSA
• A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story2022 · as Jacob Marley
• Peter Davison: Uncut!2022 · as Self
• The Road Dance2022 · as Doctor MacLean
• Operation Mincemeat2022 · as Ivor Montazac
• The Amazing Mr. Blunden2021 · as Mr. Wickens
• Memento Mori2021 · as Henry Huxley
• The Sparks Brothers2021 · as Self
• A Silent Imprisonment2021 · as Mr Murphy
• Locked Down2021 · as Donald
• The Father2020 · as The Man
• Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World2020 · as Self
• Tales of the Uncanny2020 · as Self
• Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley2020 · as Self
• In Search of Dracula2020 · as Himself - Presenter
• Doctor Who and the Third Man2019 · as Himself
• Brexit: The Uncivil War2019 · as Peter Mandelson (voice)
• The Dead Room2018 · as Radio Announcer (voice)
• The Favourite2018 · as Lord Marlborough
• National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III2018 · as George III
• Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art2018 · as Himself - Presenter
• Christopher Robin2018 · as Giles Winslow
• The Mercy2018 · as Ronald Hall
• Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time2017 · as The Captain
• Mars: a Traveller's Guide2017 · as Narrator
• Against the Law2017 · as Dr. Landers
• Denial2016 · as Professor Robert Jan van Pelt
• Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie2016 · as Joel
• Our Kind of Traitor2016 · as Billy Matlock
• Dad's Army2016 · as Colonel Theakes
• Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock2016 · as Himself
• Sherlock: The Abominable Bride2016 · as Mycroft Holmes
• Victor Frankenstein2015 · as Dettweiler
• Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet2015 · as Himself
• The Vote2015 · as Steven Crosswell
• Release the Hound!2015 · as Self
• Coalition2015 · as Peter Mandelson
• 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy2014 · as Self
• National Theatre Live: Coriolanus2014 · as Menenius Agrippa
• Unlocking Sherlock2014 · as Himself / Mark Gatiss
• How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective2014 · as Self
• M.R. James: Ghost Writer2013 · as Presenter
• Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor2013 · as Self
• The Celestial Toyroom2013
• Doctor Who: The Great Detective2012 · as Narrator
• Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss2012 · as Self - Host
• The Real Sherlock Holmes2012 · as Self
• Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness2012 · as Self - Actor and Writer
• Cleaning Up2011 · as Mr Jackson
• The First Men in the Moon2010 · as Cavor
• Unlocking Sherlock2010 · as Himself
• Worried About the Boy2010 · as Malcolm McLaren
• Ghosts in the Machine2009 · as Himself
• Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen2009 · as Ernest Dunks
• New Town2009 · as Duff Purves
• Consenting Adults2007 · as PC Butcher
• The Worst Journey in the World2007 · as Apsley Cherry-Garrard
• Grindhouse2007 · as (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
• The Wind in the Willows2006 · as Rat
• The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You2006 · 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
• Fear of Fanny2006 · as Johnnie Cradock
• Starter for 102006 · as Bamber Gascoigne
• Return of the Goodies2005 · as Himself
• Match Point2005 · as Ping-Pong Player
• Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'2005
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit2005 · as Miss Blight (voice)
• 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 · as Self - The League of Gentlemen
• The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse2005 · as Various Characters
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy2005 · as Additional Vogon Voices
• The Quatermass Experiment2005 · as John Paterson
• Doctor Who: A New Dimension2005 · as Self
• Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures2004 · as Kenyon
• Global Conspiracy?2004 · as Terry Scanlon
• Spaced: Skip to the End2004 · as Self
• Shaun of the Dead2004 · as Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited)
• Sex Lives of the Potato Men2004 · as Jeremy
• The Kneale Tapes2003 · as Self
• Bright Young Things2003 · as House Agent
• Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe2002 · as Viking (voice)
• Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali2002 · as Louis Aragon
• The Cicerones2002 · as John Trant
• Tales from Behind the Crypt2002 · as Self
• The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane2001 · as various
• Birthday Girl2001 · as Porter
• The Web of Caves1999 · as The Doctor
• The Kidnappers1999 · as Mark
• The Pitch of Fear1999 · as Mr. Borusa
• Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up1997
• PROBE: Unnatural Selection1996 · as Mr. Emerson
• Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary1996 · as Self - Interviewer
• PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne1995 · as Georgie
• Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen1995
• Highgate House of Horror1995 · as Mr Banham
• PROBE: The Zero Imperative1994 · as Dr. William Bruffin
• The Painting & The Statue— · as Old Lord/Butler 'Smith'/Dancing Man/Old Lord 'Johnny'
• Bunker—

All TV Shows (63)

• Bookish2025 · as Gabriel Book
• Moonflower Murders2024 · as Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin
• Time Bandits2024 · as Earl of Sandwich
• Time Bandits2024 · as Earl of Sandwich (voice)
• 3 Body Problem2024 · as Isaac Newton
• Juice2023 · as George
• Nolly2023 · as Larry Grayson
• Inside Classical2022 · as Sherlock Holmes
• Dracula2020 · as Frank Renfield
• Good Omens2019 · as Mr. Harmony
• Sally4Ever2018 · as Doctor
• Gunpowder2017 · as Sir Robert Cecil
• Taboo2017 · as Prince Regent
• London Spy2015 · as Rich
• Doctor Who: The Fan Show2015
• Thunderbirds Are Go!2015 · as Dr. Quentin Questa (voice)
• Wolf Hall2015 · as Stephen Gardiner
• Mapp and Lucia2014 · as Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint
• Doctor Who Extra2014 · as Self
• The Real History of Science Fiction2014 · as Himself - Narrator (voice)
• Inside No. 92014 · as Callum
• Inside No. 92014 · as Self
• Psychobitches2013 · as Joan Crawford
• Dr. Forever!2013 · as Himself
• Playhouse Presents2012 · as Joan Crawford
• Game of Thrones2011 · as Tycho Nestoris
• The Crimson Petal and the White2011 · as Henry Rackham Junior
• Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge2010
• A History of Horror2010 · as Self - Presenter
• Sherlock2010 · as Mycroft Holmes
• Doctor Who Greatest Moments2009 · as Self
• Horrible Histories2009
• Being Human2009 · as Mr. Snow
• Crooked House2008 · as The Curator
• Clone2008 · as Colonel Black
• Sense and Sensibility2008 · as John Dashwood
• British Film Forever2007
• Jekyll2007 · as Robert Louis Stevenson
• Derren Brown: Trick or Treat2007 · as Himself
• Funland2005 · as Ambrose Chapfel
• Doctor Who Confidential2005
• Doctor Who2005 · as Gantok
• Doctor Who2005 · as Richard Lazarus
• Doctor Who Confidential2005 · as Narrator
• Agatha Christie's Marple2004 · as Ronald Hawes
• Who Do You Think You Are?2004 · as Self
• Catterick2004 · as Peter
• Nighty Night2004 · as Glenn Bulb
• Little Britain2003
• QI2003 · as Self
• Footballers' Wives2002 · as Teddy - Agent
• Dr Terrible's House of Horrible2001 · as Hang Man Chang
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross2001 · as Self
• Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)2000
• Spaced1999 · as Agent
• The League of Gentlemen1999 · as Various
• In the Red1998 · as Junior Detective
• This Morning with Richard Not Judy1998
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Rev Giles Shawcross
• The Dwelling Place1994 · as Bowmer
• Harry1993 · as Diner Manager
• Agatha Christie's Poirot1989 · as Leonard Boynton
• A Ghost Story for Christmas1971 · as Radio Presenter (Voice)