Acting · Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK · Born October 17, 1966
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.
MovieBeing Stanley Baxter
2025
as Self
MovieThe Fantastic 4: First Steps
2025
as Ted Gilbert
TVBookish
2025
as Gabriel Book
MovieMarvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
2025
as Ted Gilbert (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieMission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
as Angstrom
MovieInside No. 9: The Party's Over
2024
as Self
TVMoonflower Murders
2024
as Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin
TVTime Bandits
2024
as Earl of Sandwich
MovieNational Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024
as Sir John Gielgud
TV3 Body Problem
2024
as Isaac Newton
MovieThe Hound of the Baskervilles
2023
as Sherlock Holmes
MovieHammer A.D. 2023
2023
as Self
TVJuice
2023
as George
MovieMission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
as NSA
TVNolly
2023
as Larry Grayson
MovieA Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
2022
as Jacob Marley
MoviePeter Davison: Uncut!
2022
as Self
TVInside Classical
2022
as Sherlock Holmes
MovieThe Road Dance
2022
as Doctor MacLean
MovieOperation Mincemeat
2022
as Ivor Montazac
MovieThe Amazing Mr. Blunden
2021
as Mr. Wickens
Memento Mori
2021
as Henry Huxley
MovieThe Sparks Brothers
2021
as Self
MovieA Silent Imprisonment
2021
as Mr Murphy
MovieLocked Down
2021
as Donald
MovieThe Father
2020
as The Man
MovieCold War Steve Meets the Outside World
2020
as Self
MovieTales of the Uncanny
2020
as Self
MovieScandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
2020
as Self
MovieIn Search of Dracula
2020
as Himself - Presenter
TVDracula
2020
as Frank Renfield
MovieDoctor Who and the Third Man
2019
as Himself
TVGood Omens
2019
as Mr. Harmony
MovieBrexit: The Uncivil War
2019
as Peter Mandelson (voice)
MovieThe Dead Room
2018
as Radio Announcer (voice)
MovieThe Favourite
2018
as Lord Marlborough
MovieNational Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
2018
as George III
TVSally4Ever
2018
as Doctor
MovieMark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
2018
as Himself - Presenter
MovieChristopher Robin
2018
as Giles Winslow
MovieThe Mercy
2018
as Ronald Hall
MovieDoctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017
as The Captain
TVGunpowder
2017
as Sir Robert Cecil
MovieMars: a Traveller's Guide
2017
as Narrator
MovieAgainst the Law
2017
as Dr. Landers
TVTaboo
2017
as Prince Regent
MovieDenial
2016
as Professor Robert Jan van Pelt
MovieAbsolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
as Joel
MovieOur Kind of Traitor
2016
as Billy Matlock
MovieDad's Army
2016
as Colonel Theakes
MovieMark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016
as Himself
MovieSherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
as Mycroft Holmes
MovieVictor Frankenstein
2015
as Dettweiler
TVLondon Spy
2015
as Rich
MoviePremium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
2015
as Himself
TVDoctor Who: The Fan Show
2015
MovieThe Vote
2015
as Steven Crosswell
Release the Hound!
2015
as Self
TVThunderbirds Are Go!
2015
as Dr. Quentin Questa (voice)
MovieCoalition
2015
as Peter Mandelson
TVWolf Hall
2015
as Stephen Gardiner
TVMapp and Lucia
2014
as Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint
TVDoctor Who Extra
2014
as Self
Movie50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
as Self
TVThe Real History of Science Fiction
2014
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
TVInside No. 9
2014
as Callum
MovieNational Theatre Live: Coriolanus
2014
as Menenius Agrippa
MovieUnlocking Sherlock
2014
as Himself / Mark Gatiss
MovieHow to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
2014
as Self
MovieM.R. James: Ghost Writer
2013
as Presenter
MovieDoctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
2013
as Self
TVPsychobitches
2013
as Joan Crawford
MovieThe Celestial Toyroom
2013
TVDr. Forever!
2013
as Himself
MovieDoctor Who: The Great Detective
2012
as Narrator
MovieHorror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
as Self - Host
MovieThe Real Sherlock Holmes
2012
as Self
MovieBack to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
2012
as Self - Actor and Writer
TVPlayhouse Presents
2012
as Joan Crawford
MovieCleaning Up
2011
as Mr Jackson
TVGame of Thrones
2011
as Tycho Nestoris
TVThe Crimson Petal and the White
2011
as Henry Rackham Junior
TVMid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
2010
MovieThe First Men in the Moon
2010
as Cavor
TVA History of Horror
2010
as Self - Presenter
MovieUnlocking Sherlock
2010
as Himself
TVSherlock
2010
as Mycroft Holmes
MovieWorried About the Boy
2010
as Malcolm McLaren
Ghosts in the Machine
2009
as Himself
TVDoctor Who Greatest Moments
2009
as Self
MovieSpanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
2009
as Ernest Dunks
TVHorrible Histories
2009
MovieNew Town
2009
as Duff Purves
TVBeing Human
2009
as Mr. Snow
TVCrooked House
2008
as The Curator
TVClone
2008
as Colonel Black
TVSense and Sensibility
2008
as John Dashwood
MovieConsenting Adults
2007
as PC Butcher
TVBritish Film Forever
2007
TVJekyll
2007
as Robert Louis Stevenson
MovieThe Worst Journey in the World
2007
as Apsley Cherry-Garrard
TVDerren Brown: Trick or Treat
2007
as Himself
MovieGrindhouse
2007
as (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
MovieThe Wind in the Willows
2006
as Rat
MovieThe League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
2006
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
MovieFear of Fanny
2006
as Johnnie Cradock
MovieStarter for 10
2006
as Bamber Gascoigne
MovieReturn of the Goodies
2005
as Himself
MovieMatch Point
2005
as Ping-Pong Player
MovieBring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
2005
TVFunland
2005
as Ambrose Chapfel
MovieWallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
as Miss Blight (voice)
MovieDon'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
MovieThe League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
as Various Characters
MovieThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
as Additional Vogon Voices
MovieThe Quatermass Experiment
2005
as John Paterson
MovieDoctor Who: A New Dimension
2005
as Self
TVDoctor Who Confidential
2005
TVDoctor Who
2005
as Gantok
TVAgatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Ronald Hawes
TVWho Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self
MovieAgatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004
as Kenyon
MovieGlobal Conspiracy?
2004
as Terry Scanlon
MovieSpaced: Skip to the End
2004
as Self
MovieShaun of the Dead
2004
as Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited)
MovieSex Lives of the Potato Men
2004
as Jeremy
TVCatterick
2004
as Peter
TVNighty Night
2004
as Glenn Bulb
MovieThe Kneale Tapes
2003
as Self
MovieBright Young Things
2003
as House Agent
TVLittle Britain
2003
TVQI
2003
as Self
MovieRobbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
2002
as Viking (voice)
MovieSurrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
2002
as Louis Aragon
TVFootballers' Wives
2002
as Teddy - Agent
MovieThe Cicerones
2002
as John Trant
Tales from Behind the Crypt
2002
as Self
MovieThe League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
2001
as various
TVDr Terrible's House of Horrible
2001
as Hang Man Chang
TVFriday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self
MovieBirthday Girl
2001
as Porter
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
MovieThe Web of Caves
1999
as The Doctor
MovieThe Kidnappers
1999
as Mark
MovieThe Pitch of Fear
1999
as Mr. Borusa
TVSpaced
1999
as Agent
TVThe League of Gentlemen
1999
as Various
TVIn the Red
1998
as Junior Detective
TVThis Morning with Richard Not Judy
1998
MovieStranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997
TVMidsomer Murders
1997
as Rev Giles Shawcross
MoviePROBE: Unnatural Selection
1996
as Mr. Emerson
MovieBidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
as Self - Interviewer
MoviePROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
1995
as Georgie
MovieStranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1995
MovieHighgate House of Horror
1995
as Mr Banham
TVThe Dwelling Place
1994
as Bowmer
MoviePROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994
as Dr. William Bruffin
Harry
1993
as Diner Manager
TVAgatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Leonard Boynton
TVA Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
as Radio Presenter (Voice)
MovieThe Painting & The Statue
as Old Lord/Butler 'Smith'/Dancing Man/Old Lord 'Johnny'
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