Gender
Male
Birthday, Age
1966 October 17 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK

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)

Known For

Actor ( 1 )

Full Filmography

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Miss Blight (voice)
Movie • 2005-09-15
Birthday Girl
as Porter
Movie • 2001-09-06
Memento Mori
as Henry Huxley
Movie • 2021-07-23
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
Movie • 2006-11-20
A Silent Imprisonment
as Mr Murphy
Movie • 2021-04-01
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
as Kenyon
Movie • 2004-09-22
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
as Mr. Wickens
Movie • 2021-12-20
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self
Movie • 2020-10-31
Ghosts in the Machine
as Himself
Movie • 2009-10-27
The Quatermass Experiment
as John Paterson
Movie • 2005-04-02
The First Men in the Moon
as Cavor
Movie • 2010-10-19
The Cicerones
as John Trant
Movie • 2002-01-01
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
as Ernest Dunks
Movie • 2009-08-05
Spaced: Skip to the End
as Self
Movie • 2004-04-12
Unlocking Sherlock
as Himself / Mark Gatiss
Movie • 2014-01-19
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
as Viking (voice)
Movie • 2002-12-13
Hammer A.D. 2023
as Self
Movie • 2023-10-11
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
as Menenius Agrippa
Movie • 2014-01-29
M.R. James: Ghost Writer
as Presenter
Movie • 2013-12-25
Worried About the Boy
as Malcolm McLaren
Movie • 2010-05-16
The Wind in the Willows
as Rat
Movie • 2006-12-18
Starter for 10
as Bamber Gascoigne
Movie • 2006-09-13
Fear of Fanny
as Johnnie Cradock
Movie • 2006-10-23
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
as Various Characters
Movie • 2005-06-03
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
as Jeremy
Movie • 2004-02-20
Victor Frankenstein
as Dettweiler
Movie • 2015-11-10
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
as Self
Movie • 2014-05-24
Doctor Who: The Great Detective
as Narrator
Movie • 2012-11-16
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Sherlock Holmes
Movie • 2023-12-25
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
as Jacob Marley
Movie • 2022-11-27
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
as Self - Host
Movie • 2012-10-30
The Dead Room
as Radio Announcer (voice)
Movie • 2018-12-24
The Kneale Tapes
as Self
Movie • 2003-10-15
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
as Sir John Gielgud
Movie • 2024-03-21
Coalition
as Peter Mandelson
Movie • 2015-03-28
The Vote
as Steven Crosswell
Movie • 2015-05-07
The Zero Imperative
as Dr. William Bruffin
Movie • 1994-01-01
Unnatural Selection
as Mr. Emerson
Movie • 1996-10-01
Cleaning Up
as Mr Jackson
Movie • 2011-09-15
Peter Davison: Uncut!
as Self
Movie • 2022-08-01
Dad's Army
as Colonel Theakes
Movie • 2016-02-05
Match Point
as Ping-Pong Player
Movie • 2005-10-26
Bright Young Things
as House Agent
Movie • 2003-10-03
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as Mycroft Holmes
Movie • 2016-01-01
Consenting Adults
as PC Butcher
Movie • 2007-09-04
Our Kind of Traitor
as Billy Matlock
Movie • 2016-05-05
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
as Self
Movie • 2005-03-26
Denial
as Professor Robert Jan van der Pelt
Movie • 2016-09-30
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
as Joel
Movie • 2016-07-01
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Additional Vogon Voices
Movie • 2005-04-28
The Real Sherlock Holmes
as Self
Movie • 2012-06-11
The Worst Journey in the World
as Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Movie • 2007-04-29
Return of the Goodies
as Himself
Movie • 2005-12-30
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
as various
Movie • 2001-11-19
Against the Law
as Dr. Landers
Movie • 2017-03-16
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
as Louis Aragon
Movie • 2002-03-02
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
as Self - Interviewer
Movie • 1996-04-01
The Favourite
as Lord Marlborough
Movie • 2018-11-23
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
as The Captain
Movie • 2017-12-25
Christopher Robin
as Giles Winslow
Movie • 2018-08-01
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
as Himself
Movie • 2016-01-11
The Mercy
as Ronald Hall
Movie • 2018-02-09
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
as George III
Movie • 2018-11-20
Mars: a Traveller's Guide
as Narrator
Movie • 2017-09-12
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
as Himself - Presenter
Movie • 2018-08-13
Shaun of the Dead
as Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited)
Movie • 2004-04-09
Global Conspiracy?
as Terry Scanlon
Movie • 2004-05-10
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
as Various Characters
Movie • 2018-11-19
The Father
as The Man
Movie • 2020-12-23
Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Peter Mandelson (voice)
Movie • 2019-01-19
New Town
as Duff Purves
Movie • 2009-04-14
In Search of Dracula
as Himself - Presenter
Movie • 2020-01-03
Operation Mincemeat
as Ivor Montazac
Movie • 2022-04-01
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
as Self
Movie • 2013-08-04
The Web of Caves
as The Doctor
Movie • 1999-11-13
The Kidnappers
as Mark
Movie • 1999-11-13
The Pitch of Fear
as Mr. Borusa
Movie • 1999-11-13
Locked Down
as Donald
Movie • 2021-02-25
Doctor Who and the Third Man
as Himself
Movie • 2019-07-08
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
as Self - Actor and Writer
Movie • 2012-04-30
Release the Hound!
as Self
Movie • 2015-04-21
The Sparks Brothers
as Self
Movie • 2021-06-18
Highgate House of Horror
as Mr Banham
Movie • 1995-01-01
The Devil of Winterborne
as Georgie
Movie • 1995-08-01
Grindhouse
as (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
Movie • 2007-04-06
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
as Self
Movie • 2020-11-24
The Road Dance
as Doctor MacLean
Movie • 2022-05-20
Unlocking Sherlock
as Himself
Movie • 2010-08-30
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Angstrom
Movie • 2025-05-17
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
as Self
Movie • 2024-12-22
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
as Ted Gilbert
Movie • 2025-07-23
The Celestial Toyroom
Movie • 2013-03-11
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
as Various Characters
Movie • 2018-11-19
Tales from Behind the Crypt
as Himself
Movie •
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
as Ted Gilbert (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie • 2025-07-21
Spaced
as Agent
Tv • 1999-09-24
Jekyll
as Robert Louis Stevenson
Tv • 2007-06-16
Nighty Night
Tv • 2004-01-06
QI
as Self
Tv • 2003-09-11
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
Tv • 2001-11-02
Dr. Forever!
as Himself
Tv • 2013-03-11
Sense and Sensibility
as John Dashwood
Tv • 2008-01-01
Clone
as Colonel Black
Tv • 2008-11-17
Sherlock
as Mycroft Holmes
Tv • 2010-07-25
Crooked House
as The Curator
Tv • 2008-12-22
Psychoville
Tv • 2009-06-18
A History of Horror
as Self - Presenter
Tv • 2010-10-11
Doctor Who
as Gantok
Tv • 2005-03-26
The Crimson Petal and the White
as Henry Rackham Junior
Tv • 2011-04-06
Midsomer Murders
as Rev Giles Shawcross
Tv • 1997-03-23
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
Tv • 2004-10-12
Horrible Histories
Tv • 2009-04-16
London Spy
as Rich
Tv • 2015-11-09
Catterick
as Peter
Tv • 2004-02-15
Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible
as Hang Man Chang
Tv • 2001-11-12
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
as Himself
Tv • 2007-04-13
Harry
as Diner Manager
Tv • 1993-09-18
In the Red
as Junior Detective
Tv • 1998-05-26
Little Britain
Tv • 2003-09-16
Funland
Tv • 2005-10-23
Doctor Who
as Richard Lazarus
Tv • 2005-03-26
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
as Self
Tv • 2009-08-20
Mapp and Lucia
as Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint
Tv • 2014-12-29
Game of Thrones
as Tycho Nestoris
Tv • 2011-04-17
Nighty Night
as Glenn Bulb
Tv • 2004-01-06
Thunderbirds Are Go!
as Dr. Quentin Questa (voice)
Tv • 2015-04-04
Gunpowder
as Sir Robert Cecil
Tv • 2017-10-21
The Dwelling Place
as Bowmer
Tv • 1994-05-08
Inside No. 9
as Callum
Tv • 2014-02-05
The Real History of Science Fiction
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Tv • 2014-04-19
Doctor Who Extra
as Self
Tv • 2014-08-23
Moonflower Murders
as Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin
Tv • 2024-11-16
Inside Classical
as Sherlock Holmes
Tv • 2022-05-22
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Ronald Hawes
Tv • 2004-12-12
3 Body Problem
as Isaac Newton
Tv • 2024-03-21
Good Omens
as Mr. Harmony
Tv • 2019-05-31
Bookish
as Gabriel Book
Tv • 2025-07-16
Doctor Who Confidential
as Narrator
Tv • 2005-03-26
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Leonard Boynton
Tv • 1989-01-08
Nolly
as Larry Grayson
Tv • 2023-02-02
Inside No. 9
as Self
Tv • 2014-02-05
Footballers' Wives
as Teddy - Agent
Tv • 2002-01-08
Time Bandits
as Earl of Sandwich
Tv • 2024-07-23
Time Bandits
as Earl of Sandwich (voice)
Tv • 2024-07-23
Dracula
as Frank Renfield
Tv • 2020-01-01
Wolf Hall
as Stephen Gardiner
Tv • 2015-01-21
Taboo
as Prince Regent
Tv • 2017-01-07
Being Human
as Mr. Snow
Tv • 2009-01-25