Mark Gatiss

Known For: Acting
Born: October 17, 1966
Place of Birth: Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK

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)…

Filmography

Being Stanley Baxter

2025 · Self

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower

2025 · Director, Screenplay

The Fantastic 4: First Steps

2025 · Ted Gilbert

Bookish

2025 · Gabriel Book, Writer, Creator

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

2025 · Ted Gilbert (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

2025 · Angstrom

A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone

2024 · Director, Writer

Inside No. 9: The Party's Over

2024 · Self

Moonflower Murders

2024 · Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin

Time Bandits

2024 · Earl of Sandwich, Earl of Sandwich (voice)

National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue

2024 · Sir John Gielgud

3 Body Problem

2024 · Isaac Newton

The Hound of the Baskervilles

2023 · Sherlock Holmes

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249

2023 · Director, Screenplay

Hammer A.D. 2023

2023 · Self

Juice

2023 · George

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023 · NSA

Nolly

2023 · Larry Grayson

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus

2022 · Director, Writer

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

2022 · Jacob Marley, Adaptation

Peter Davison: Uncut!

2022 · Self

Inside Classical

2022 · Sherlock Holmes

The Road Dance

2022 · Doctor MacLean

Operation Mincemeat

2022 · Ivor Montazac

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint

2021 · Screenplay, Director

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

2021 · Mr. Wickens, Director, Writer

Memento Mori

2021 · Henry Huxley

The Sparks Brothers

2021 · Self

A Silent Imprisonment

2021 · Mr Murphy

Locked Down

2021 · Donald

The Father

2020 · The Man

Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World

2020 · Self

Tales of the Uncanny

2020 · Self

Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley

2020 · Self

In Search of Dracula

2020 · Himself - Presenter

Dracula

2020 · Frank Renfield, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator

Martin's Close

2019 · Executive Producer, Director, Writer

Doctor Who and the Third Man

2019 · Himself

Good Omens

2019 · Mr. Harmony

Brexit: The Uncivil War

2019 · Peter Mandelson (voice)

The Dead Room

2018 · Radio Announcer (voice), Executive Producer, Director, Writer

The Favourite

2018 · Lord Marlborough

National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III

2018 · George III

Sally4Ever

2018 · Doctor

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

2018 · Himself - Presenter

Christopher Robin

2018 · Giles Winslow

The Mercy

2018 · Ronald Hall

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

2017 · The Captain

Gunpowder

2017 · Sir Robert Cecil

Mars: a Traveller's Guide

2017 · Narrator

Queers.

2017 · Director, Writer, Producer

Against the Law

2017 · Dr. Landers

Taboo

2017 · Prince Regent

Denial

2016 · Professor Robert Jan van Pelt

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

2016 · Joel

Our Kind of Traitor

2016 · Billy Matlock

Dad's Army

2016 · Colonel Theakes

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock

2016 · Himself

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

2016 · Mycroft Holmes, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator

Victor Frankenstein

2015 · Dettweiler

London Spy

2015 · Rich

Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet

2015 · Himself

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

2015

The Vote

2015 · Steven Crosswell

Release the Hound!

Release the Hound!

2015 · Self

Thunderbirds Are Go!

2015 · Dr. Quentin Questa (voice)

Coalition

2015 · Peter Mandelson

Wolf Hall

2015 · Stephen Gardiner

Mapp and Lucia

2014 · Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint

Doctor Who Extra

2014 · Self

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

2014 · Self

The Real History of Science Fiction

2014 · Himself - Narrator (voice)

Inside No. 9

2014 · Callum, Self

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

2014 · Menenius Agrippa

Unlocking Sherlock

2014 · Himself / Mark Gatiss

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

2014 · Self

M.R. James: Ghost Writer

2013 · Presenter, Writer

The Tractate Middoth

2013 · Director, Writer

Sherlock: Many Happy Returns

2013 · Writer

An Adventure in Space and Time

2013 · Writer, Executive Producer

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

2013 · Self

Psychobitches

2013 · Joan Crawford

The Celestial Toyroom

2013

Dr. Forever!

2013 · Himself

Doctor Who: The Great Detective

2012 · Narrator

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

2012 · Self - Host, Writer

The Real Sherlock Holmes

2012 · Self

Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness

2012 · Self - Actor and Writer

Playhouse Presents

2012 · Joan Crawford

Cleaning Up

2011 · Mr Jackson

Game of Thrones

2011 · Tycho Nestoris

The Crimson Petal and the White

2011 · Henry Rackham Junior

Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

2010

The First Men in the Moon

2010 · Cavor, Screenplay

A History of Horror

2010 · Self - Presenter, Writer

Unlocking Sherlock

2010 · Himself

Sherlock

2010 · Mycroft Holmes, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator

Worried About the Boy

2010 · Malcolm McLaren

Ghosts in the Machine

Ghosts in the Machine

2009 · Himself

Doctor Who Greatest Moments

2009 · Self

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

2009 · Ernest Dunks

Horrible Histories

2009

New Town

2009 · Duff Purves

Being Human

2009 · Mr. Snow

Crooked House

2008 · The Curator, Writer, Producer, Creator

Clone

2008 · Colonel Black

Sense and Sensibility

2008 · John Dashwood

Consenting Adults

2007 · PC Butcher

British Film Forever

2007

Jekyll

2007 · Robert Louis Stevenson

The Worst Journey in the World

2007 · Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Writer, Co-Producer

Derren Brown: Trick or Treat

2007 · Himself

Grindhouse

2007 · (segment "Don't") (uncredited)

A New Body at Last

2007 · Thanks

The Wind in the Willows

2006 · Rat

The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You

2006 · 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, Author

Fear of Fanny

2006 · Johnnie Cradock

Starter for 10

2006 · Bamber Gascoigne

Return of the Goodies

2005 · Himself

Match Point

2005 · Ping-Pong Player

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

2005

Funland

2005 · Ambrose Chapfel

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

2005 · 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 · Self - The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

2005 · Various Characters, Writer, Executive Producer

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2005 · Additional Vogon Voices

The Quatermass Experiment

2005 · John Paterson

Doctor Who: A New Dimension

2005 · Self

Doctor Who Confidential

2005 · , Narrator

Doctor Who

2005 · Gantok, Richard Lazarus, Writer

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004 · Ronald Hawes

Who Do You Think You Are?

2004 · Self

Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

2004 · Kenyon

Global Conspiracy?

2004 · Terry Scanlon, Writer, Producer

Spaced: Skip to the End

2004 · Self

Shaun of the Dead

2004 · Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited)

Sex Lives of the Potato Men

2004 · Jeremy

Catterick

2004 · Peter

Nighty Night

2004 · Glenn Bulb

The Kneale Tapes

2003 · Self

Bright Young Things

2003 · House Agent

Little Britain

2003

QI

2003 · Self

Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe

2002 · Viking (voice)

Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali

2002 · Louis Aragon

Footballers' Wives

2002 · Teddy - Agent

The Cicerones

2002 · John Trant

Tales from Behind the Crypt

Tales from Behind the Crypt

2002 · Self

The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane

2001 · various, Writer

Dr Terrible's House of Horrible

2001 · Hang Man Chang

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

2001 · Self

Birthday Girl

2001 · Porter

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

2000 · , Writer

The Web of Caves

1999 · The Doctor, Writer

The Kidnappers

1999 · Mark, Writer

The Pitch of Fear

1999 · Mr. Borusa, Writer

Spaced

1999 · Agent

The League of Gentlemen

1999 · Various, Writer, Creator

In the Red

1998 · Junior Detective

This Morning with Richard Not Judy

1998

Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up

1997

Midsomer Murders

1997 · Rev Giles Shawcross

PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne

1996 · Writer

PROBE: Unnatural Selection

1996 · Mr. Emerson, Writer

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

1996 · Self - Interviewer

PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne

1995 · Georgie, Writer

Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen

1995

Highgate House of Horror

1995 · Mr Banham, Director

The Dwelling Place

1994 · Bowmer

PROBE: The Zero Imperative

1994 · Dr. William Bruffin, Writer

Harry

1993 · Diner Manager

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989 · Leonard Boynton, Screenplay

A Ghost Story for Christmas

1971 · Radio Presenter (Voice), Director, Writer

The Painting & The Statue

— · Old Lord/Butler 'Smith'/Dancing Man/Old Lord 'Johnny'

Bunker

—

Doctor Who

— · Writer

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