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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Gatiss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: 17 October 1966
Played In
Movie
Dec 2025
Being Stanley Baxter
Self
Movie
Jul 2025
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Ted Gilbert
TV Show
Jul 2025
Bookish
Gabriel Book
Movie
Jul 2025
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
Ted Gilbert (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie
May 2025
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Angstrom
Movie
Dec 2024
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
Self
TV Show
Nov 2024
Moonflower Murders
Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin
TV Show
Jul 2024
Time Bandits
Earl of Sandwich
TV Show
Jul 2024
Time Bandits
Earl of Sandwich (voice)
Movie
Mar 2024
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
Sir John Gielgud
TV Show
Mar 2024
3 Body Problem
Isaac Newton
Movie
Dec 2023
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sherlock Holmes
Movie
Oct 2023
Hammer A.D. 2023
Self
TV Show
Sep 2023
Juice
George
Movie
Jul 2023
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
NSA
TV Show
Feb 2023
Nolly
Larry Grayson
Movie
Nov 2022
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
Jacob Marley
Movie
Aug 2022
Peter Davison: Uncut!
Self
TV Show
May 2022
Inside Classical
Sherlock Holmes
Movie
May 2022
The Road Dance
Doctor MacLean
Movie
Apr 2022
Operation Mincemeat
Ivor Montazac
Movie
Dec 2021
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Mr. Wickens
Movie
Jul 2021
Memento Mori
Henry Huxley
Movie
Jun 2021
The Sparks Brothers
Self
Movie
Apr 2021
A Silent Imprisonment
Mr Murphy
Movie
Feb 2021
Locked Down
Donald
Movie
Dec 2020
The Father
The Man
Movie
Nov 2020
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
Self
Movie
Oct 2020
Tales of the Uncanny
Self
Movie
Mar 2020
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
Self
Movie
Jan 2020
In Search of Dracula
Himself - Presenter
TV Show
Jan 2020
Dracula
Frank Renfield
Movie
Jul 2019
Doctor Who and the Third Man
Himself
TV Show
May 2019
Good Omens
Mr. Harmony
Movie
Jan 2019
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Peter Mandelson (voice)
Movie
Dec 2018
The Dead Room
Radio Announcer (voice)
Movie
Nov 2018
The Favourite
Lord Marlborough
Movie
Nov 2018
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
George III
TV Show
Oct 2018
Sally4Ever
Doctor
Movie
Aug 2018
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
Himself - Presenter
Movie
Aug 2018
Christopher Robin
Giles Winslow
Movie
Feb 2018
The Mercy
Ronald Hall
Movie
Dec 2017
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
The Captain
TV Show
Oct 2017
Gunpowder
Sir Robert Cecil
Movie
Sep 2017
Mars: a Traveller's Guide
Narrator
Movie
Mar 2017
Against the Law
Dr. Landers
TV Show
Jan 2017
Taboo
Prince Regent
Movie
Sep 2016
Denial
Professor Robert Jan van Pelt
Movie
Jul 2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Joel
Movie
May 2016
Our Kind of Traitor
Billy Matlock
Movie
Feb 2016
Dad's Army
Colonel Theakes
Movie
Jan 2016
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Himself
Movie
Jan 2016
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Mycroft Holmes
Movie
Nov 2015
Victor Frankenstein
Dettweiler
TV Show
Nov 2015
London Spy
Rich
Movie
Oct 2015
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
Himself
TV Show
May 2015
Doctor Who: The Fan Show
Movie
May 2015
The Vote
Steven Crosswell
Movie
Apr 2015
Release the Hound!
Self
TV Show
Apr 2015
Thunderbirds Are Go!
Dr. Quentin Questa (voice)
Movie
Mar 2015
Coalition
Peter Mandelson
TV Show
Jan 2015
Wolf Hall
Stephen Gardiner
TV Show
Dec 2014
Mapp and Lucia
Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint
TV Show
Aug 2014
Doctor Who Extra
Self
Movie
May 2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Self
TV Show
Apr 2014
The Real History of Science Fiction
Himself - Narrator (voice)
TV Show
Feb 2014
Inside No. 9
Callum
TV Show
Feb 2014
Inside No. 9
Self
Movie
Jan 2014
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
Menenius Agrippa
Movie
Jan 2014
Unlocking Sherlock
Himself / Mark Gatiss
Movie
Jan 2014
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
Self
Movie
Dec 2013
M.R. James: Ghost Writer
Presenter
Movie
Aug 2013
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
Self
TV Show
May 2013
Psychobitches
Joan Crawford
Movie
Mar 2013
The Celestial Toyroom
TV Show
Mar 2013
Dr. Forever!
Himself
Movie
Nov 2012
Doctor Who: The Great Detective
Narrator
Movie
Oct 2012
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Self - Host
Movie
Jun 2012
The Real Sherlock Holmes
Self
Movie
Apr 2012
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
Self - Actor and Writer
TV Show
Apr 2012
Playhouse Presents
Joan Crawford
Movie
Sep 2011
Cleaning Up
Mr Jackson
TV Show
Apr 2011
Game of Thrones
Tycho Nestoris
TV Show
Apr 2011
The Crimson Petal and the White
Henry Rackham Junior
TV Show
Nov 2010
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
Movie
Oct 2010
The First Men in the Moon
Cavor
TV Show
Oct 2010
A History of Horror
Self - Presenter
Movie
Aug 2010
Unlocking Sherlock
Himself
TV Show
Jul 2010
Sherlock
Mycroft Holmes
Movie
May 2010
Worried About the Boy
Malcolm McLaren
Movie
Oct 2009
Ghosts in the Machine
Himself
TV Show
Aug 2009
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
Self
Movie
Aug 2009
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Ernest Dunks
TV Show
Apr 2009
Horrible Histories
Movie
Apr 2009
New Town
Duff Purves
TV Show
Jan 2009
Being Human
Mr. Snow
TV Show
Dec 2008
Crooked House
The Curator
TV Show
Nov 2008
Clone
Colonel Black
TV Show
Jan 2008
Sense and Sensibility
John Dashwood
Movie
Sep 2007
Consenting Adults
PC Butcher
TV Show
Jul 2007
British Film Forever
TV Show
Jun 2007
Jekyll
Robert Louis Stevenson
Movie
Apr 2007
The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
TV Show
Apr 2007
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
Himself
Movie
Apr 2007
Grindhouse
(segment "Don't") (uncredited)
Movie
Dec 2006
The Wind in the Willows
Rat
Movie
Nov 2006
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
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
Oct 2006
Fear of Fanny
Johnnie Cradock
Movie
Sep 2006
Starter for 10
Bamber Gascoigne
Movie
Dec 2005
Return of the Goodies
Himself
Movie
Oct 2005
Match Point
Ping-Pong Player
Movie
Oct 2005
Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
TV Show
Oct 2005
Funland
Ambrose Chapfel
Movie
Sep 2005
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Miss Blight (voice)
Movie
Sep 2005
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'
Self - The League of Gentlemen
Movie
Jun 2005
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Various Characters
Movie
Apr 2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Additional Vogon Voices
Movie
Apr 2005
The Quatermass Experiment
John Paterson
Movie
Mar 2005
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
Self
TV Show
Mar 2005
Doctor Who Confidential
TV Show
Mar 2005
Doctor Who
Gantok
TV Show
Mar 2005
Doctor Who
Richard Lazarus
TV Show
Mar 2005
Doctor Who Confidential
Narrator
TV Show
Dec 2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
Ronald Hawes
TV Show
Oct 2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
Movie
Sep 2004
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
Kenyon
Movie
May 2004
Global Conspiracy?
Terry Scanlon
Movie
Apr 2004
Spaced: Skip to the End
Self
Movie
Apr 2004
Shaun of the Dead
Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited)
Movie
Feb 2004
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
Jeremy
TV Show
Feb 2004
Catterick
Peter
TV Show
Jan 2004
Nighty Night
Glenn Bulb
Movie
Oct 2003
The Kneale Tapes
Self
Movie
Oct 2003
Bright Young Things
House Agent
TV Show
Sep 2003
Little Britain
TV Show
Sep 2003
QI
Self
Movie
Dec 2002
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
Viking (voice)
Movie
Mar 2002
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
Louis Aragon
TV Show
Jan 2002
Footballers' Wives
Teddy - Agent
Movie
Jan 2002
The Cicerones
John Trant
Movie
Jan 2002
Tales from Behind the Crypt
Self
Movie
Nov 2001
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
various
TV Show
Nov 2001
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
Hang Man Chang
TV Show
Nov 2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self
Movie
Sep 2001
Birthday Girl
Porter
TV Show
Mar 2000
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Movie
Nov 1999
The Web of Caves
The Doctor
Movie
Nov 1999
The Kidnappers
Mark
Movie
Nov 1999
The Pitch of Fear
Mr. Borusa
TV Show
Sep 1999
Spaced
Agent
TV Show
Jan 1999
The League of Gentlemen
Various
TV Show
May 1998
In the Red
Junior Detective
TV Show
Feb 1998
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
Movie
Sep 1997
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
TV Show
Mar 1997
Midsomer Murders
Rev Giles Shawcross
Movie
Oct 1996
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
Mr. Emerson
Movie
Apr 1996
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Self - Interviewer
Movie
Aug 1995
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
Georgie
Movie
Jan 1995
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
Movie
Jan 1995
Highgate House of Horror
Mr Banham
TV Show
May 1994
The Dwelling Place
Bowmer
Movie
Jan 1994
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
Dr. William Bruffin
TV Show
Sep 1993
Harry
Diner Manager
TV Show
Jan 1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Leonard Boynton
TV Show
Dec 1971
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Radio Presenter (Voice)
Movie
The Painting & The Statue
Old Lord/Butler 'Smith'/Dancing Man/Old Lord 'Johnny'
Movie
Bunker