Mark Gatiss
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Mark Gatiss

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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).

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Films Featuring Mark Gatiss

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

20057.1

Birthday Girl

20015.9

Memento Mori

Memento Mori

2021

Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up

1997

The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You

20067.6

A Silent Imprisonment

2021

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

20048.0

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

20216.3

Tales of the Uncanny

20207.0

Ghosts in the Machine

Ghosts in the Machine

2009

The Quatermass Experiment

20055.6

The First Men in the Moon

20105.9

The Cicerones

20025.8

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

20097.3

Spaced: Skip to the End

20046.3

Unlocking Sherlock

20147.9

Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe

20025.5

Hammer A.D. 2023

20237.5

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

20148.1

Worried About the Boy

20106.3

Starter for 10

20066.4

The Wind in the Willows

20065.8

Fear of Fanny

20067.1

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

20056.2

M.R. James: Ghost Writer

20138.7

Sex Lives of the Potato Men

20044.4

Victor Frankenstein

20156.0

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

20148.0

Doctor Who: The Great Detective

20127.8

The Hound of the Baskervilles

20238.0

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

20228.7

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

20127.4

The Dead Room

20185.7

The Kneale Tapes

2003

National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue

20247.5

Coalition

20157.0

The Vote

20158.4

PROBE: The Zero Imperative

19947.2

PROBE: Unnatural Selection

19967.4

Cleaning Up

20119.0

Peter Davison: Uncut!

2022

Dad's Army

20165.0

Match Point

20057.4

Bright Young Things

20036.3

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

20167.8

Consenting Adults

20075.0

Our Kind of Traitor

20166.0

Doctor Who: A New Dimension

20059.0

Denial

20166.8

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

20165.3

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

20056.7

The Real Sherlock Holmes

20124.0

The Worst Journey in the World

20076.5

Return of the Goodies

20056.9

The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane

20017.8

Against the Law

20176.8

Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali

20025.8

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

19967.5

Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen

19957.0

The Favourite

20187.5

Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet

20158.0

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

20178.0

Christopher Robin

20187.3

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock

20167.3

The Mercy

20185.9

National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III

20186.3

Mars: a Traveller's Guide

20178.0

Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art

2018

Shaun of the Dead

20047.5

Global Conspiracy?

20047.0

The Father

20208.1

Brexit: The Uncivil War

20196.6

New Town

2009

In Search of Dracula

20208.4

Operation Mincemeat

20226.5

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

20135.0

The Kidnappers

19997.0

The Pitch of Fear

19998.0

The Web of Caves

19997.0

Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley

2020

Locked Down

20215.2

Doctor Who and the Third Man

2019

Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness

20128.0

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

20237.5

Release the Hound!

Release the Hound!

2015

The Sparks Brothers

20217.4

Highgate House of Horror

19958.0

PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne

19958.4

Grindhouse

20077.0

Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World

2020

The Road Dance

20226.7

Unlocking Sherlock

20106.5

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

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

20257.2

Inside No. 9: The Party's Over

20246.2

How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective

2014

The Fantastic 4: First Steps

20256.9

Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'

20057.0

The Celestial Toyroom

2013

Tales from Behind the Crypt

Tales from Behind the Crypt

2002

Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere

20256.5

Being Stanley Baxter

2025

The Painting & The Statue

Bunker

2026