Mark Gatiss

Born

October 17, 1966 (58 years old)

Known For

Acting

Place of Birth

Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK

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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Known For

8.5

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Ted Gilbert

0.0

2025

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Angstrom

7.2

2025

Inside No. 9: The Party's Over

Self

10.0

2024

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

NSA

7.5

2023

The Road Dance

Doctor MacLean

6.6

2022

The Sparks Brothers

Self

7.4

2021

Locked Down

Donald

5.2

2021

Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World

Self

0.0

2020

Doctor Who and the Third Man

Himself

0.0

2019

The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!

Various Characters

0.0

2018

Release the Hound!

Self

0.0

2015

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

Self

0.0

2014

The Celestial Toyroom

0.0

2013

Dr. Forever!

Himself · (5 episodes)

8.0

2013

Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness

Self - Actor and Writer

8.0

2012

The Crimson Petal and the White

Henry Rackham Junior · (4 episodes)

7.2

2011

A History of Horror

Self - Presenter · (3 episodes)

7.5

2010

Unlocking Sherlock

Himself

6.5

2010

Sherlock

Mycroft Holmes · (11 episodes)

8.5

2010

Psychoville

(1 episode)

6.8

2009

Crooked House

The Curator · (3 episodes)

6.8

2008

Clone

Colonel Black · (6 episodes)

6.5

2008

Sense and Sensibility

John Dashwood · (3 episodes)

7.6

2008

Jekyll

Robert Louis Stevenson · (6 episodes)

7.6

2007

Grindhouse

(segment "Don't") (uncredited)

7.0

2007

The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!

8.2

2006

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

0.0

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

0.0

2005

Doctor Who Confidential

(3 episodes)

8.1

2005

Doctor Who

Gantok · (2 episodes)

7.6

2005

Nighty Night

(1 episode)

7.7

2004

QI

Self · (1 episode)

7.9

2003

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Self · (1 episode)

6.0

2001

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

(1 episode)

6.1

2000

Spaced

Agent · (1 episode)

7.9

1999

The League of Gentlemen

(18 episodes)

7.7

1999

This Morning with Richard Not Judy

(18 episodes)

6.4

1998

Midsomer Murders

Rev Giles Shawcross · (1 episode)

7.5

1997

The Devil of Winterborne

Georgie

8.8

1995

Highgate House of Horror

Mr Banham

8.0

1995

Tales from Behind the Crypt

Himself

0.0

Bookish

Gabriel Book · (6 episodes)

0.0

2025

Moonflower Murders

Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin · (6 episodes)

7.8

2024

Time Bandits

Earl of Sandwich · (1 episode)

6.2

2024

Time Bandits

Earl of Sandwich (voice) · (1 episode)

6.2

2024

National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue

Sir John Gielgud

7.5

2024

3 Body Problem

Isaac Newton · (1 episode)

7.5

2024

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes

8.0

2023

Hammer A.D. 2023

Self

7.5

2023

Nolly

Larry Grayson · (3 episodes)

6.5

2023

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

Jacob Marley

8.5

2022

Peter Davison: Uncut!

Self

0.0

2022

Inside Classical

Sherlock Holmes · (1 episode)

0.0

2022

Operation Mincemeat

Ivor Montazac

6.5

2022

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

Mr. Wickens

6.3

2021

Memento Mori

Henry Huxley

0.0

2021

A Silent Imprisonment

Mr Murphy

0.0

2021

The Father

The Man

8.1

2020

Tales of the Uncanny

Self

7.1

2020

Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley

Himself

0.0

2020

In Search of Dracula

Himself - Presenter

9.0

2020

Dracula

Frank Renfield · (3 episodes)

7.0

2020

Good Omens

Mr. Harmony · (2 episodes)

8.0

2019

Brexit: The Uncivil War

Peter Mandelson (voice)

6.6

2019

The Dead Room

Radio Announcer (voice)

5.7

2018

The Favourite

Lord Marlborough

7.5

2018

National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III

George III

6.3

2018

The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!

Various Characters

9.5

2018

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

Himself - Presenter

0.0

2018

Christopher Robin

Giles Winslow

7.3

2018

The Mercy

Ronald Hall

6.0

2018

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

The Captain

8.0

2017

Gunpowder

Sir Robert Cecil · (3 episodes)

6.8

2017

Mars: a Traveller's Guide

Narrator

8.0

2017

Against the Law

Dr. Landers

7.0

2017

Taboo

Prince Regent · (5 episodes)

7.9

2017

Denial

Professor Robert Jan van der Pelt

6.9

2016

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

Joel

5.3

2016

Our Kind of Traitor

Billy Matlock

6.1

2016

Dad's Army

Colonel Theakes

5.0

2016

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock

Himself

7.3

2016

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

Mycroft Holmes

7.8

2016

Victor Frankenstein

Dettweiler

6.0

2015

London Spy

Rich · (1 episode)

7.0

2015

Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet

Himself

8.0

2015

The Vote

Steven Crosswell

8.4

2015

Thunderbirds Are Go!

Dr. Quentin Questa (voice) · (1 episode)

6.2

2015

Coalition

Peter Mandelson

7.0

2015

Wolf Hall

Stephen Gardiner · (4 episodes)

7.5

2015

Mapp and Lucia

Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint · (3 episodes)

6.6

2014

Doctor Who Extra

Self · (1 episode)

0.0

2014

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

Self

8.0

2014

The Real History of Science Fiction

Himself - Narrator (voice) · (4 episodes)

6.9

2014

Inside No. 9

Callum · (1 episode)

8.0

2014

Inside No. 9

Self · (1 episode)

8.0

2014

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

Menenius Agrippa

8.1

2014

Unlocking Sherlock

Himself / Mark Gatiss

7.8

2014

M.R. James: Ghost Writer

Presenter

8.7

2013

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

Self

5.0

2013

Doctor Who: The Great Detective

Narrator

8.5

2012

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

Self - Host

8.0

2012

The Real Sherlock Holmes

Self

4.0

2012

Cleaning Up

Mr Jackson

9.0

2011

Game of Thrones

Tycho Nestoris · (4 episodes)

8.5

2011

Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

(1 episode)

6.8

2010

The First Men in the Moon

Cavor

5.6

2010

Worried About the Boy

Malcolm McLaren

6.3

2010

Ghosts in the Machine

Himself

0.0

2009

Doctor Who Greatest Moments

Self · (2 episodes)

7.0

2009

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

Ernest Dunks

7.3

2009

Horrible Histories

(9 episodes)

8.0

2009

New Town

Duff Purves

0.0

2009

Being Human

Mr. Snow · (2 episodes)

7.0

2009

Consenting Adults

PC Butcher

5.7

2007

The Worst Journey in the World

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

6.5

2007

Derren Brown: Trick or Treat

Himself · (1 episode)

8.5

2007

The Wind in the Willows

Rat

5.8

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

7.6

2006