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