Matthew Holness
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Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Whitstable, Kent, England
Born in Whitstable, Kent in 1975, Matthew Holness is an English comedian, actor, writer and director. He is best known for his comic creation, the fictional horror novelist Garth Marenghi. He read English at Trinity College, Cambridge and was vice-president of the Cambridge Footlights. His contemporaries included Footlights president, David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Olivia Colman and his Marenghi co-writer Richard Ayoade. Holness first appeared on television as a cast-member of the 2000 BBC Choice TV series Bruiser, which starred Mitchell, Webb, Colman and Martin Freeman. In that same year he won the Perrier at the Edinburgh Fringe for Garty Marenghi's Fright Night, which was transferred to UK television in the guise of the 2004 Channel 4 horror comedy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Other credits include 2006's Man to Man with Dean Learner, several productions with Ricky Gervais such as The Office, Life's Too Short and Cemetery Junction, and the 2017 Channel 4 sitcom Back which starred Mitchell and Webb. In 2018 he made his feature length directorial debut with the film Possum, having previously helmed short films The Snipist and A Gun For George.
Known For
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
Sir Denholm Havers
2023
Toast of Tinseltown
Richard Chickentoss · (1 episode)
2022
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
Himself
2021
We Are Lady Parts
Gameshow host · (1 episode)
2021
The Haunting of Bly Manor
Dominic Wingrave · (2 episodes)
2020
Year of the Rabbit
Hector, Crown Prince of Bulgaria · (1 episode)
2019
The Russell Howard Hour
Garth Marenghi · (1 episode)
2017
Back
Laurie · (6 episodes)
2017
Italia Violenta
2015
Toast of London
Max Gland · (1 episode)
2013
Life's Too Short
Ian · (2 episodes)
2011
A Gun for George
Terry / George / The Reprisalizer
2011
Friday Night Dinner
Chris Parker · (1 episode)
2011
Cemetery Junction
Band Leader
2010
Free Agents
(6 episodes)
2009
Man to Man with Dean Learner
Garth Marenghi · (1 episode)
2006
Man to Man with Dean Learner
Steve Pising · (1 episode)
2006
Man to Man with Dean Learner
Glynn Nimron · (1 episode)
2006
Man to Man with Dean Learner
Merriman Weir · (1 episode)
2006
Man to Man with Dean Learner
Amir Chanan · (1 episode)
2006
Man to Man with Dean Learner
Randolph Caer / Garth Marenghi / Glynn Nimron / Steve Pising / Amir Chanan · (1 episode)
2006
Time Trumpet
(6 episodes)
2006
Festival
Roger - Lighting Man
2005
2004: The Stupid Version
Himself · (2 episodes)
2004
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Garth Marenghi / Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. · (6 episodes)
2004
The Office
Simon · (1 episode)
2001
Bruiser
(6 episodes)
2000
Backstage... at the Cambridge Footlights
Self
1997