Mark Gatiss
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 17, 1966 (age 59)
- Place of birth
- Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK
- Credits
- 164
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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Known for
Game of Thrones
2011TV
Tycho Nestoris
Shaun of the Dead
2004Movie
Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited)
Sherlock
2010TV
Mycroft Holmes
The Favourite
2018Movie
Lord Marlborough
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023Movie
NSA
Match Point
2005Movie
Ping-Pong Player
Filmography
Bunker
2026Movie
Simon
Being Stanley Baxter
2025Movie
Self
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
2025Movie
Ted Gilbert
Bookish
2025TV
Gabriel Book
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
2025Movie
Ted Gilbert (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025Movie
Angstrom
The Painting & The Statue
2025Movie
Old Lord/Butler 'Smith'/Dancing Man/Old Lord 'Johnny'
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
2024Movie
Self
Moonflower Murders
2024TV
Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin
Time Bandits
2024TV
Earl of Sandwich, Earl of Sandwich (voice)
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024Movie
Sir John Gielgud
3 Body Problem
2024TV
Isaac Newton
The Hound of the Baskervilles
2023Movie
Sherlock Holmes
Hammer A.D. 2023
2023Movie
Self
Juice
2023TV
George
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023Movie
NSA
Nolly
2023TV
Larry Grayson
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
2022Movie
Jacob Marley
Peter Davison: Uncut!
2022Movie
Self
Inside Classical
2022TV
Sherlock Holmes
The Road Dance
2022Movie
Doctor MacLean
Operation Mincemeat
2022Movie
Ivor Montazac
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
2021Movie
Mr. Wickens
Memento Mori
2021Movie
Henry Huxley
The Sparks Brothers
2021Movie
Self
A Silent Imprisonment
2021Movie
Mr Murphy
Locked Down
2021Movie
Donald
The Father
2020Movie
The Man
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
2020Movie
Self
Tales of the Uncanny
2020Movie
Self
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
2020Movie
Self
In Search of Dracula
2020Movie
Himself - Presenter
Dracula
2020TV
Frank Renfield
Doctor Who and the Third Man
2019Movie
Himself
Good Omens
2019TV
Mr. Harmony
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019Movie
Peter Mandelson (voice)
The Dead Room
2018Movie
Radio Announcer (voice)
The Favourite
2018Movie
Lord Marlborough
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
2018Movie
George III
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
2018Movie
Multiple Characters
Sally4Ever
2018TV
Doctor
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
2018Movie
Himself - Presenter
Christopher Robin
2018Movie
Giles Winslow
The Mercy
2018Movie
Ronald Hall
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017Movie
The Captain
Gunpowder
2017TV
Sir Robert Cecil
Mars: a Traveller's Guide
2017Movie
Narrator
Against the Law
2017Movie
Dr. Landers
Taboo
2017TV
Prince Regent
Denial
2016Movie
Professor Robert Jan van Pelt
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016Movie
Joel
Our Kind of Traitor
2016Movie
Billy Matlock
Dad's Army
2016Movie
Colonel Theakes
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016Movie
Himself
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016Movie
Mycroft Holmes
Victor Frankenstein
2015Movie
Dettweiler
London Spy
2015TV
Rich
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
2015Movie
Himself
The Vote
2015Movie
Steven Crosswell
Release the Hound!
2015Movie
Self
Thunderbirds Are Go!
2015TV
Dr. Quentin Questa (voice)
Coalition
2015Movie
Peter Mandelson
Wolf Hall
2015TV
Stephen Gardiner
Mapp and Lucia
2014TV
Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint
Doctor Who Extra
2014TV
Self
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014Movie
Self
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014TV
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Inside No. 9
2014TV
Callum, Self
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
2014Movie
Menenius Agrippa
Unlocking Sherlock
2014Movie
Himself / Mark Gatiss
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
2014Movie
Self
M.R. James: Ghost Writer
2013Movie
Presenter
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
2013Movie
Self
Psychobitches
2013TV
Joan Crawford
The Celestial Toyroom
2013Movie
Dr. Forever!
2013TV
Himself
Doctor Who: The Great Detective
2012Movie
Narrator
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012Movie
Self - Host
The Real Sherlock Holmes
2012Movie
Self
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
2012Movie
Self - Actor and Writer
Playhouse Presents
2012TV
Joan Crawford
Cleaning Up
2011Movie
Mr Jackson
Game of Thrones
2011TV
Tycho Nestoris
The Crimson Petal and the White
2011TV
Henry Rackham Junior
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
2010TV
The First Men in the Moon
2010Movie
Cavor
A History of Horror
2010TV
Self - Presenter
Unlocking Sherlock
2010Movie
Himself
Sherlock
2010TV
Mycroft Holmes
Worried About the Boy
2010Movie
Malcolm McLaren
Ghosts in the Machine
2009Movie
Himself
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009TV
Self
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
2009Movie
Ernest Dunks
Horrible Histories
2009TV
New Town
2009Movie
Duff Purves
Being Human
2009TV
Mr. Snow
Crooked House
2008TV
The Curator
Clone
2008TV
Colonel Black
Sense and Sensibility
2008TV
John Dashwood
Consenting Adults
2007Movie
PC Butcher
British Film Forever
2007TV
Jekyll
2007TV
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Worst Journey in the World
2007Movie
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
2007TV
Himself
Grindhouse
2007Movie
(segment "Don't") (uncredited)
The Wind in the Willows
2006Movie
Rat
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
2006Movie
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
Starter for 10
2006Movie
Bamber Gascoigne
Fear of Fanny
2006Movie
Johnnie Cradock
Return of the Goodies
2005Movie
Himself
Match Point
2005Movie
Ping-Pong Player
Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
2005Movie
Funland
2005TV
Ambrose Chapfel
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005Movie
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'
2005Movie
Self - The League of Gentlemen
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005Movie
Various Characters
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005Movie
Additional Vogon Voices
The Quatermass Experiment
2005Movie
John Paterson
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
2005Movie
Self
Doctor Who Confidential
2005TV
Narrator, Self
Doctor Who
2005TV
Gantok, Richard Lazarus
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004TV
Ronald Hawes
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004TV
Self
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004Movie
Kenyon
Global Conspiracy?
2004Movie
Terry Scanlon
Spaced: Skip to the End
2004Movie
Self
Shaun of the Dead
2004Movie
Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited)
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
2004Movie
Jeremy
Catterick
2004TV
Peter
Nighty Night
2004TV
Glenn Bulb
The Kneale Tapes
2003Movie
Self
Bright Young Things
2003Movie
House Agent
Little Britain
2003TV
QI
2003TV
Self
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
2002Movie
Viking (voice)
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
2002Movie
Louis Aragon
Footballers' Wives
2002TV
Teddy - Agent
The Cicerones
2002Movie
John Trant
Tales from Behind the Crypt
2002Movie
Self
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
2001Movie
various
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
2001TV
Hang Man Chang
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001TV
Self
Birthday Girl
2001Movie
Porter
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000TV
The Web of Caves
1999Movie
The Doctor
The Kidnappers
1999Movie
Mark
The Pitch of Fear
1999Movie
Mr. Borusa
Spaced
1999TV
Agent
The League of Gentlemen
1999TV
Various
In the Red
1998TV
Junior Detective
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
1998TV
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997Movie
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Rev Giles Shawcross
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
1996Movie
Mr. Emerson
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996Movie
Self - Interviewer
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
1995Movie
Georgie
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1995Movie
Highgate House of Horror
1995Movie
Mr Banham
The Dwelling Place
1994TV
Bowmer
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994Movie
Dr. William Bruffin
Harry
1993TV
Diner Manager
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Leonard Boynton
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971TV
Radio Presenter (Voice)
A Ticket Too Far
Movie
Marshall