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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 17, 1966
Place of Birth
Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK
Also Known As
- Марк Гейтисс
- 마크 거티스
- مارک گیتیس
Mark Gatiss
1.5 Popularity
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), 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.
Known For
0.0
Ted Gilbert
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
2025
0.0
Gabriel Book
Bookish
2025
7.2
Angstrom
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
10.0
Self
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
2024
7.9
Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin
Moonflower Murders
2024
6.2
Earl of Sandwich
Time Bandits
2024
6.2
Earl of Sandwich (voice)
Time Bandits
2024
7.5
Isaac Newton
3 Body Problem
2024
7.5
Sir John Gielgud
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024
8.0
Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
2023
Credits
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
as Ted Gilbert
2025
0.0
Bookish
as Gabriel Book
2025
0.0
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Angstrom
2025
7.2
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
as Self
2024
10.0
Moonflower Murders
as Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin
2024
7.9
Time Bandits
as Earl of Sandwich
2024
6.2
Time Bandits
as Earl of Sandwich (voice)
2024
6.2
3 Body Problem
as Isaac Newton
2024
7.5
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
as Sir John Gielgud
2024
7.5
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Sherlock Holmes
2023
8.0
Hammer A.D. 2023
as Self
2023
7.5
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
as NSA
2023
7.5
Nolly
as Larry Grayson
2023
6.5
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
as Jacob Marley
2022
8.5
Peter Davison: Uncut!
as Self
2022
0.0
Inside Classical
as Sherlock Holmes
2022
0.0
The Road Dance
as Doctor MacLean
2022
6.6
Operation Mincemeat
as Ivor Montazac
2022
6.5
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
as Mr. Wickens
2021
6.2
🎬
Memento Mori
as Henry Huxley
2021
0.0
The Sparks Brothers
as Self
2021
7.4
A Silent Imprisonment
as Mr Murphy
2021
0.0
Locked Down
as Donald
2021
5.2
The Father
as The Man
2020
8.1
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
as Self
2020
0.0
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self
2020
7.1
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
as Himself
2020
0.0
In Search of Dracula
as Himself - Presenter
2020
9.0
Dracula
as Frank Renfield
2020
7.0
Doctor Who and the Third Man
as Himself
2019
0.0
Good Omens
as Mr. Harmony
2019
8.0
Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Peter Mandelson (voice)
2019
6.6
The Dead Room
as Radio Announcer (voice)
2018
5.7
The Favourite
as Lord Marlborough
2018
7.5
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
as George III
2018
6.3
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
as Various Characters
2018
9.5
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
as Various Characters
2018
0.0
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
as Himself - Presenter
2018
0.0
Christopher Robin
as Giles Winslow
2018
7.3
The Mercy
as Ronald Hall
2018
5.9
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
as The Captain
2017
8.0
Gunpowder
as Sir Robert Cecil
2017
6.8
Mars: a Traveller's Guide
as Narrator
2017
8.0
Against the Law
as Dr. Landers
2017
7.0
Taboo
as Prince Regent
2017
7.9
Denial
as Professor Robert Jan van der Pelt
2016
6.9
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
as Joel
2016
5.3
Our Kind of Traitor
as Billy Matlock
2016
6.0
Dad's Army
as Colonel Theakes
2016
5.0
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
as Himself
2016
7.3
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as Mycroft Holmes
2016
7.8
Victor Frankenstein
as Dettweiler
2015
5.9
London Spy
as Rich
2015
7.0
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
as Himself
2015
8.0
The Vote
as Steven Crosswell
2015
8.4
🎬
Release the Hound!
as Self
2015
0.0
Thunderbirds Are Go!
as Dr. Quentin Questa (voice)
2015
6.2
Coalition
as Peter Mandelson
2015
7.0
Wolf Hall
as Stephen Gardiner
2015
7.5
Mapp and Lucia
as Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint
2014
6.7
Doctor Who Extra
as Self
2014
0.0
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
as Self
2014
8.0
The Real History of Science Fiction
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2014
6.9
Inside No. 9
as Callum
2014
8.0
Inside No. 9
as Self
2014
8.0
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
as Menenius Agrippa
2014
8.1
Unlocking Sherlock
as Himself / Mark Gatiss
2014
7.8
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
as Self
2014
0.0
M.R. James: Ghost Writer
as Presenter
2013
8.7
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
as Self
2013
5.0
Dr. Forever!
as Himself
2013
8.0
🎬
The Celestial Toyroom
2013
0.0
Doctor Who: The Great Detective
as Narrator
2012
8.5
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
as Self - Host
2012
8.0
The Real Sherlock Holmes
as Self
2012
4.0
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
as Self - Actor and Writer
2012
8.0
Cleaning Up
as Mr Jackson
2011
9.0
Game of Thrones
as Tycho Nestoris
2011
8.5
The Crimson Petal and the White
as Henry Rackham Junior
2011
7.2
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
2010
6.8
The First Men in the Moon
as Cavor
2010
5.6
A History of Horror
as Self - Presenter
2010
7.5
Unlocking Sherlock
as Himself
2010
6.5
Sherlock
as Mycroft Holmes
2010
8.5
Worried About the Boy
as Malcolm McLaren
2010
6.3
🎬
Ghosts in the Machine
as Himself
2009
0.0
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
as Self
2009
7.0
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
as Ernest Dunks
2009
7.3
Psychoville
2009
6.8
Horrible Histories
2009
8.0
New Town
as Duff Purves
2009
0.0
Being Human
as Mr. Snow
2009
7.0
Crooked House
as The Curator
2008
6.7
Clone
as Colonel Black
2008
6.5
Sense and Sensibility
as John Dashwood
2008
7.6
Consenting Adults
as PC Butcher
2007
5.7
Jekyll
as Robert Louis Stevenson
2007
7.6
The Worst Journey in the World
as Apsley Cherry-Garrard
2007
6.5
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
as Himself
2007
8.5
Grindhouse
as (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
2007
7.0
The Wind in the Willows
as Rat
2006
5.8
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!
2006
8.2
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
2006
7.6
Fear of Fanny
as Johnnie Cradock
2006
7.3
Starter for 10
as Bamber Gascoigne
2006
6.4
Return of the Goodies
as Himself
2005
6.9
Match Point
as Ping-Pong Player
2005
7.4
🎬
Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
2005
0.0
Funland
2005
6.3
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Miss Blight (voice)
2005
7.1
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'
as Self - The League of Gentlemen
2005
0.0
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
as Various Characters
2005
6.3
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Additional Vogon Voices
2005
6.7
The Quatermass Experiment
as John Paterson
2005
5.6
Doctor Who
as Gantok
2005
7.5
Doctor Who
as Richard Lazarus
2005
7.5
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
8.1
Doctor Who Confidential
as Narrator
2005
8.1
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
as Self
2005
0.0
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Ronald Hawes
2004
7.7
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2004
6.7
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
as Kenyon
2004
8.1
Global Conspiracy?
as Terry Scanlon
2004
0.0
Spaced: Skip to the End
as Self
2004
6.1
Shaun of the Dead
as Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited)
2004
7.5
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
as Jeremy
2004
4.5
Catterick
as Peter
2004
6.9
Nighty Night
2004
7.7
Nighty Night
as Glenn Bulb
2004
7.7
The Kneale Tapes
as Self
2003
0.0
Bright Young Things
as House Agent
2003
6.3
Little Britain
2003
7.2
QI
as Self
2003
7.9
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
as Viking (voice)
2002
5.3
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
as Louis Aragon
2002
5.8
Footballers' Wives
as Teddy - Agent
2002
5.3
🎬
The Cicerones
as John Trant
2002
5.2
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
as various
2001
7.9
Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible
as Hang Man Chang
2001
6.6
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
2001
5.8
Birthday Girl
as Porter
2001
5.9
The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!
2000
9.0
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
6.1
The Web of Caves
as The Doctor
1999
0.0
The Kidnappers
as Mark
1999
0.0
The Pitch of Fear
as Mr. Borusa
1999
0.0
Spaced
as Agent
1999
7.9
The League of Gentlemen
1999
7.7
In the Red
as Junior Detective
1998
6.2
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
1998
6.4
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997
0.0
Midsomer Murders
as Rev Giles Shawcross
1997
7.5
Unnatural Selection
as Mr. Emerson
1996
6.8
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
as Self - Interviewer
1996
6.0
The Devil of Winterborne
as Georgie
1995
8.8
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1995
0.0
Highgate House of Horror
as Mr Banham
1995
8.0
The Dwelling Place
as Bowmer
1994
6.0
The Zero Imperative
as Dr. William Bruffin
1994
7.0
🎬
Harry
as Diner Manager
1993
3.5
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Leonard Boynton
1989
8.2