Mark Gatiss
Birthday: 1966-10-17
Place of Birth: Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK
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.
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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Birthday Girl
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The League of Gentlemen's Christmas Special: Yule Never Leave!
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Memento Mori
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Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
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The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
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A Silent Imprisonment
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Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
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The Amazing Mr. Blunden
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Ghosts in the Machine
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The Quatermass Experiment
Bernard Quatermass heads the futuristic Experimental Rocket Group whose greatest voyage is coming to...
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The First Men in the Moon
Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits wi...
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Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Drama illuminating Dr James Niven's efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanis...
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Spaced: Skip to the End
A feature documentary about the making of and influence of the British television series Spaced. It ...
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Unlocking Sherlock
Explore how writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss created the hit television sensation. Take a pers...
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Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
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Hammer A.D. 2023
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National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
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Worried About the Boy
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Starter for 10
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The Wind in the Willows
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Fear of Fanny
The bizarre tale of Fanny Cradock, Britain's famous and maligned TV chef from 50s to the 70s....
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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for ...
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M.R. James: Ghost Writer
Mark Gatiss steps into the mind of M.R. James, the enigmatic English master of the supernatural stor...
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Sex Lives of the Potato Men
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Victor Frankenstein
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50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
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Doctor Who: The Great Detective
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
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Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling journey through European horror cinema, from the ...
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The Dead Room
Set and filmed at the iconic Maida Vale studios, The Dead Room tells the story of a long-running rad...
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National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
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Coalition
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The Vote
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PROBE: The Zero Imperative
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PROBE: Unnatural Selection
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Cleaning Up
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Peter Davison: Uncut!
Unedited interviews from in front and behind the camera with the fifth Doctor, Peter Davison and Mar...
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Dad's Army
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Match Point
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Bright Young Things
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
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Consenting Adults
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Our Kind of Traitor
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Doctor Who: A New Dimension
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Denial
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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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The Real Sherlock Holmes
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The Worst Journey in the World
Drama documentary exploring Captain Scott's 1912 Antarctic expedition, which saw him and two colleag...
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Return of the Goodies
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The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
The award-winning Black Comedy series takes to the stage of London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane....
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Against the Law
United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist ...
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Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
A comic drama about the weird and wonderful world of Salvador Dali and the Surrealists. This film ch...
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Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
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Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
In the second "Stranger Than Fiction" documentary, Mark Gatiss explores the three latest BBV product...
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The Favourite
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threat...
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Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
In impeccable evening dress, Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet ponder the Bonds we've seen on screen sin...
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Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
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Christopher Robin
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Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Mark Gatiss, who co-created "Sherlock" and plays Mycroft Holmes, discusses the show with Benedict Cu...
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The Mercy
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National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
It’s 1786 and King George III is the most powerful man in the world. But his behaviour is becoming i...
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Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
For the actor and writer Mark Gatiss, Minton has been something of an obsession since he first came ...
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Shaun of the Dead
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Global Conspiracy?
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The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
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The Father
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Brexit: The Uncivil War
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British...
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New Town
Starry architects Purves and Pekkala are offered the chance to redesign a Georgian church, but when ...
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In Search of Dracula
Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...
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Operation Mincemeat
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a...
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Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
Zoe Ball hosts a live celebration in which the next actor to land Doctor Who's lead role is revealed...
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Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
Mark Gatiss explores the life and career of Aubrey Beardsley, an artist who wielded outrage as adroi...
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Locked Down
During a COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jew...
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Doctor Who and the Third Man
A retrospective documentary on the tenure of Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor in the show Doctor Who....
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Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
Documentary that chronicles the making of the third film in Hammer's Dracula series....
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying n...
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Release the Hound!
Documentary on the making of Hammer's adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles"....
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The Sparks Brothers
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, ce...
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Highgate House of Horror
Before they reached success, comedy team The League of Gentlemen made this home made comedy horror; ...
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PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
When P.R.O.B.E. is summoned to investigate the savage murder of a retired headmaster, Liz Shaw is di...
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Grindhouse
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who...
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Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
Film following the acclaimed Birmingham based artist, known for his controversial satirical collages...
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The Road Dance
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated a...
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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'
An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)....
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infi...
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Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
This documentary tells the story of one of TV's darkest and most celebrated comedies, featuring cast...
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How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
The evolution of Holmes on screen, from silent movies to new TV versions, with contributions from Sh...
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The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel's First Family is f...
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Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
Cast, crew and critics discuss the BBC's 2005 remake of 'The Quatermass Experiment'....
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The Celestial Toyroom
A brief overview of the history of Doctor Who toys and related products, presented by Ayesha Antoine...
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The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
The League of Gentlemen return to the stage for their first UK tour in over 12 years with their live...
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Tales from Behind the Crypt
From Beneath the Vault of Terror: a history of portmanteau horror movies...
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Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
Marvel's First Family has arrived! Join the cast, crew, and fans live from the blue carpet at the Wo...
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The Favourite: Unstitching the Costume Drama
A documentary behind the scenes of Yorgos Lanthimos' 'The Favourite' (2018)....
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