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.
164 acting credits · 12 directing credits
Acting · 164
Game of Thrones
2011
Midsomer Murders
1997
Doctor Who
2005
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
QI
2003
Sherlock
2010
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
Good Omens
2019
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
2025
Inside No. 9
2014
3 Body Problem
2024
Horrible Histories
2009
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Taboo
2017
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023
Being Human
2009
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
Playhouse Presents
2012
Wolf Hall
2015
Thunderbirds Are Go!
2015
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Little Britain
2003
Shaun of the Dead
2004
Time Bandits
2024
Footballers' Wives
2002
Dracula
2020
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
Spaced
1999
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
Sense and Sensibility
2008
Bookish
2025
The Favourite
2018
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
Moonflower Murders
2024
London Spy
2015
Harry
1993
Match Point
2005
The Father
2020
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
Psychobitches
2013
Funland
2005
Doctor Who Extra
2014
The League of Gentlemen
1999
Grindhouse
2007
Sally4Ever
2018
Christopher Robin
2018
Gunpowder
2017
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
Nighty Night
2004
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
2010
Victor Frankenstein
2015
Jekyll
2007
The Crimson Petal and the White
2011
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
2001
A History of Horror
2010
The Mercy
2018
Juice
2023
Operation Mincemeat
2022
Denial
2016
Nolly
2023
In the Red
1998
Our Kind of Traitor
2016
Locked Down
2021
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009
Crooked House
2008
Dad's Army
2016
The Dwelling Place
1994
Mapp and Lucia
2014
Bright Young Things
2003
Birthday Girl
2001
Catterick
2004
Clone
2008
Starter for 10
2006
The Sparks Brothers
2021
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
2002
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
1998
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
2025
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024
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
The Road Dance
2022
Inside Classical
2022
The Wind in the Willows
2006
The Vote
2015
Worried About the Boy
2010
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
2007
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
2014
Bunker
—
Being Stanley Baxter
2025
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
2024
The Quatermass Experiment
2005
Doctor Who: The Fan Show
2015
Dr. Forever!
2013
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
2002
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
2009
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
2018
Fear of Fanny
2006
Consenting Adults
2007
Spaced: Skip to the End
2004
In Search of Dracula
2020
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
2004
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
2013
Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
2005
Coalition
2015
New Town
2009
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
2004
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
Against the Law
2017
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
2020
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
2021
Unlocking Sherlock
2014
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
2005
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
The First Men in the Moon
2010
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
2006
The Worst Journey in the World
2007
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
1995
The Hound of the Baskervilles
2023
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
2014
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
Hammer A.D. 2023
2023
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
2022
The Pitch of Fear
1999
Ghosts in the Machine
2009
The Celestial Toyroom
2013
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994
Doctor Who: The Great Detective
2012
The Dead Room
2018
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
2020
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
2001
The Kneale Tapes
2003
Return of the Goodies
2005
The Cicerones
2002
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1995
The Painting & The Statue
—
The Real Sherlock Holmes
2012
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
1996
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
2018
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
2018
Memento Mori
2021
Global Conspiracy?
2004
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
2018
The Web of Caves
1999
Doctor Who and the Third Man
2019
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
2012
Unlocking Sherlock
2010
Mars: a Traveller's Guide
2017
The Kidnappers
1999
M.R. James: Ghost Writer
2013
Tales from Behind the Crypt
2002
Cleaning Up
2011
Highgate House of Horror
1995
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
2015
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997
Release the Hound!
2015
Peter Davison: Uncut!
2022
A Silent Imprisonment
2021
Directing · 12
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
Queers.
2017
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
2021
Martin's Close
2019
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
2023
The Tractate Middoth
2013
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus
2022
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower
2025
The Dead Room
2018
A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone
2024
Highgate House of Horror
1995