Mark Gatiss
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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Acted in
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
as NSA
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
2024
as Self
Moonflower Murders
2024
as Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin
Time Bandits
2024
as Earl of Sandwich
Time Bandits
2024
as Earl of Sandwich (voice)
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024
as Sir John Gielgud
3 Body Problem
2024
as Isaac Newton
The Hound of the Baskervilles
2023
as Sherlock Holmes
Hammer A.D. 2023
2023
as Self
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
as NSA
Nolly
2023
as Larry Grayson
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
2022
as Jacob Marley
Peter Davison: Uncut!
2022
Inside Classical
2022
as Sherlock Holmes
The Road Dance
2022
as Doctor MacLean
Operation Mincemeat
2022
as Ivor Montazac
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
2021
as Mr. Wickens
Memento Mori
2021
as Henry Huxley
The Sparks Brothers
2021
as Self
A Silent Imprisonment
2021
as Mr Murphy
Locked Down
2021
as Donald
The Father
2020
as The Man
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
2020
as Self
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
as Self
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
2020
as Himself
In Search of Dracula
2020
as Himself - Presenter
Dracula
2020
as Frank Renfield
Doctor Who and the Third Man
2019
as Himself
Good Omens
2019
as Mr. Harmony
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019
as Peter Mandelson (voice)
The Dead Room
2018
as Radio Announcer (voice)
The Favourite
2018
as Lord Marlborough
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
2018
as George III
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
2018
as Various Characters
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
2018
as Himself - Presenter
Christopher Robin
2018
as Giles Winslow
The Mercy
2018
as Ronald Hall
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017
as The Captain
Gunpowder
2017
as Sir Robert Cecil
Mars: a Traveller's Guide
2017
as Narrator
Against the Law
2017
as Dr. Landers
Taboo
2017
as Prince Regent
Denial
2016
as Professor Robert Jan van der Pelt
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
as Joel
Our Kind of Traitor
2016
as Billy Matlock
Dad's Army
2016
as Colonel Theakes
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016
as Himself
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
as Mycroft Holmes
Victor Frankenstein
2015
as Dettweiler
London Spy
2015
as Rich
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
2015
as Himself
The Vote
2015
as Steven Crosswell
Release the Hound!
2015
as Self
Thunderbirds Are Go!
2015
as Dr. Quentin Questa (voice)
Coalition
2015
as Peter Mandelson
Wolf Hall
2015
as Stephen Gardiner
Mapp and Lucia
2014
as Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint
Doctor Who Extra
2014
as Self
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
as Self
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Inside No. 9
2014
as Callum
Inside No. 9
2014
as Self
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
2014
as Menenius Agrippa
Unlocking Sherlock
2014
as Himself / Mark Gatiss
Sherlock: His Last Vow
2014
as Mycroft Holmes
M.R. James: Ghost Writer
2013
as Presenter
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
2013
as Self
Dr. Forever!
2013
as Himself
Doctor Who: The Great Detective
2012
as Narrator
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
as Self - Host
The Real Sherlock Holmes
2012
as Self
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
2012
as Self - Actor and Writer
Cleaning Up
2011
as Mr Jackson
Game of Thrones
2011
as Tycho Nestoris
The Crimson Petal and the White
2011
as Henry Rackham Junior
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
2010
The First Men in the Moon
2010
as Cavor
A History of Horror
2010
as Self - Presenter
Unlocking Sherlock
2010
as Himself
Sherlock
2010
as Mycroft Holmes
Sherlock
2010
as Self
Sherlock
2010
as Self / Mycroft Holmes
Worried About the Boy
2010
as Malcolm McLaren
Ghosts in the Machine
2009
as Himself
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009
as Self
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
2009
as Ernest Dunks
Psychoville
2009
Horrible Histories
2009
New Town
2009
as Duff Purves
Being Human
2009
as Mr. Snow
Crooked House
2008
as The Curator
Clone
2008
as Colonel Black
Only Connect
2008
as Self - Contestant
Sense and Sensibility
2008
as John Dashwood
Consenting Adults
2007
as PC Butcher
Jekyll
2007
as Robert Louis Stevenson
The Worst Journey in the World
2007
as Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
2007
as Himself
Grindhouse
2007
as (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
Don't
2007
as Roddy McDowel
The Wind in the Willows
2006
as Rat
The 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
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!
2006
Fear of Fanny
2006
as Johnnie Cradock
Starter for 10
2006
as Bamber Gascoigne
Return of the Goodies
2005
as Himself
Match Point
2005
as Ping-Pong Player
Funland
2005
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
as 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'
2005
as Self - The League of Gentlemen
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
as Various Characters
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
as Additional Vogon Voices
The Quatermass Experiment
2005
as John Paterson
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
2005
as Self
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
Doctor Who
2005
as Gantok
Doctor Who
2005
as Richard Lazarus
Doctor Who
2005
as The Captain
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
as Narrator
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Ronald Hawes
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004
as Kenyon
Global Conspiracy?
2004
as Terry Scanlon
Spaced: Skip to the End
2004
as Self
Shaun of the Dead
2004
as Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited)
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
2004
as Jeremy
Catterick
2004
as Peter
Nighty Night
2004
Nighty Night
2004
as Glenn Bulb
The Kneale Tapes
2003
as Self
Bright Young Things
2003
as House Agent
Little Britain
2003
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
2002
as Viking (voice)
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
2002
as Louis Aragon
Footballers' Wives
2002
as Teddy - Agent
The Cicerones
2002
as John Trant
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
2001
as various
Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible
2001
as Hang Man Chang
Birthday Girl
2001
as Porter
The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!
2000
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
The Web of Caves
1999
as The Doctor
The Kidnappers
1999
as Mark
The Pitch of Fear
1999
as Mr. Borusa
Spaced
1999
as Agent
The League of Gentlemen
1999
In the Red
1998
as Junior Detective
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
1998
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Rev Giles Shawcross
Unnatural Selection
1996
as Mr. Emerson
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
as Self - Interviewer
The Devil of Winterborne
1995
as Georgie
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1995
Highgate House of Horror
1995
as Mr Banham
The Dwelling Place
1994
as Bowmer
The Zero Imperative
1994
as Dr. William Bruffin
Harry
1993
as Diner Manager
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Leonard Boynton
Bookish
as Gabriel Book