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Mark Gatiss
Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK
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…
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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.
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2027
Bunker
Movie Simon
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2025
Being Stanley Baxter
Movie Self
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2025
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower
Movie Director
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2025
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Movie Ted Gilbert
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2025
Bookish
TV show Gabriel Book
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2025
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
Movie Ted Gilbert (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2025
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Movie Angstrom
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2025
The Painting & The Statue
Movie Old Lord/Butler 'Smith'/Dancing Man/Old Lord 'Johnny'
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2024
A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone
Movie Director
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2024
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
Movie Self
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2024
Moonflower Murders
TV show Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin
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2024
Time Bandits
TV show Earl of Sandwich
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2024
3 Body Problem
TV show Isaac Newton
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2024
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
Movie Sir John Gielgud
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2023
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Movie Sherlock Holmes
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2023
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
Movie Director
More credits
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2023
Hammer A.D. 2023
Movie Self
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2023
Juice
TV show George
- 2023
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2023
Nolly
TV show Larry Grayson
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2022
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus
Movie Director
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2022
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
Movie Jacob Marley
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2022
Peter Davison: Uncut!
Movie Self
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2022
Inside Classical
TV show Sherlock Holmes
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2022
The Road Dance
Movie Doctor MacLean
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2022
Operation Mincemeat
Movie Ivor Montazac
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2021
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
Movie Screenplay
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2021
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Movie Mr. Wickens
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2021
Memento Mori
Movie Henry Huxley
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2021
The Sparks Brothers
Movie Self
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2021
A Silent Imprisonment
Movie Mr Murphy
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2021
Locked Down
Movie Donald
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2020
The Father
Movie The Man
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2020
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
Movie Self
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2020
Tales of the Uncanny
Movie Self
- 2020
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2020
In Search of Dracula
Movie Himself - Presenter
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2020
Dracula
TV show Frank Renfield
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2019
Martin's Close
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Doctor Who and the Third Man
Movie Himself
