Mark Gatiss

59, from Sedgefield, Durham, England, UK

Artwork for Mission: Impossible - The Final ReckoningImage of Mark Gatiss

Biography

Mark Gatiss is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and novelist. He is known as a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen alongside Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and co-writer Jeremy Dyson, and has both written for and acted in the TV series Doctor Who and Sherlock, the latter of which he also co-created. 

Timeline

2027Future projects

  • Poster for Bunker

    Simon

2025Aged 59

  • Poster for The Painting & The Statue

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

  • Poster for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

    Angstrom

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

    Ted Gilbert (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Fantastic 4: First Steps

    Ted Gilbert

  • Poster for Being Stanley Baxter

    Self

  • Poster for A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower

    Screenplay

2024Aged 58

  • Poster for National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue

    Sir John Gielgud

  • Poster for Inside No. 9: The Party's Over

    Self

  • Poster for A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone

    Writer

2023Aged 57

  • Poster for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

    NSA

  • Poster for Hammer A.D. 2023

    Self

  • Poster for The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Sherlock Holmes

  • Poster for A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249

    Screenplay

2022Aged 56

  • Poster for Operation Mincemeat

    Ivor Montazac

  • Poster for The Road Dance

    Doctor MacLean

  • Poster for Peter Davison: Uncut!

    Self

  • Poster for A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

    Jacob Marley

  • Poster for A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus

    Writer

2021Aged 55

  • Poster for Locked Down

    Donald

  • Poster for A Silent Imprisonment

    Mr Murphy

  • Poster for The Sparks Brothers

    Self

  • Memento Mori

    Henry Huxley

  • Poster for The Amazing Mr. Blunden

    Mr. Wickens

  • Poster for A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint

    Screenplay

2020Aged 54

  • Poster for In Search of Dracula

    Himself - Presenter

  • Poster for Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley

    Self

  • Poster for Tales of the Uncanny

    Self

  • Poster for Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World

    Self

  • Poster for The Father

    The Man

2019Aged 53

  • Poster for Brexit: The Uncivil War

    Peter Mandelson (voice)

  • Poster for Doctor Who and the Third Man

    Himself

  • Poster for Martin's Close

    Executive Producer

2018Aged 52

  • Poster for The Mercy

    Ronald Hall

  • Poster for Christopher Robin

    Giles Winslow

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

    Himself - Presenter

  • Poster for National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III

    George III

  • Poster for The Favourite

    Lord Marlborough

  • Poster for The Dead Room

    Radio Announcer (voice)

2017Aged 51

  • Poster for Against the Law

    Dr. Landers

  • Poster for Mars: a Traveller's Guide

    Narrator

  • Poster for Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

    The Captain

2016Aged 50

  • Poster for Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

    Mycroft Holmes

  • Poster for Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock

    Himself

  • Poster for Dad's Army

    Colonel Theakes

  • Poster for Our Kind of Traitor

    Billy Matlock

  • Poster for Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

    Joel

  • Poster for Denial

    Professor Robert Jan van Pelt

2015Aged 49

2014Aged 48

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

    Self

  • Poster for Unlocking Sherlock

    Himself / Mark Gatiss

  • Poster for National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

    Menenius Agrippa

  • Poster for 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

    Self

2013Aged 47

  • Poster for The Celestial Toyroom

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

    Self

  • Poster for M.R. James: Ghost Writer

    Presenter

  • Poster for An Adventure in Space and Time

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Sherlock: Many Happy Returns

    Writer

  • Poster for The Tractate Middoth

    Writer

2012Aged 46

  • Poster for Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness

    Self - Actor and Writer

  • Poster for The Real Sherlock Holmes

    Self

  • Poster for Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

    Self - Host

  • Poster for Doctor Who: The Great Detective

    Narrator

2011Aged 45

  • Poster for Cleaning Up

    Mr Jackson

2010Aged 44

  • Poster for Worried About the Boy

    Malcolm McLaren

  • Poster for Unlocking Sherlock

    Himself

  • Poster for The First Men in the Moon

    Cavor

2009Aged 43

2007Aged 41

  • Poster for Grindhouse

    (segment "Don't") (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Worst Journey in the World

    Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  • Poster for Consenting Adults

    PC Butcher

  • Poster for A New Body at Last

    Thanks

2006Aged 40

  • Poster for Starter for 10

    Bamber Gascoigne

  • Poster for Fear of Fanny

    Johnnie Cradock

  • Poster for 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

  • Poster for The Wind in the Willows

    Rat

2005Aged 39

  • Poster for Doctor Who: A New Dimension

    Self

  • Poster for The Quatermass Experiment

    John Paterson

  • Poster for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Additional Vogon Voices

  • Poster for The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

    Various Characters

  • Poster for 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

  • Poster for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

    Miss Blight (voice)

  • Poster for Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Match Point

    Ping-Pong Player

  • Poster for Return of the Goodies

    Himself

2004Aged 38

  • Poster for Sex Lives of the Potato Men

    Jeremy

  • Poster for Shaun of the Dead

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

  • Poster for Spaced: Skip to the End

    Self

  • Poster for Global Conspiracy?

    Terry Scanlon

  • Poster for Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures

    Kenyon

2003Aged 37

  • Poster for Bright Young Things

    House Agent

  • Poster for The Kneale Tapes

    Self

2002Aged 36

2001Aged 35

  • Poster for Birthday Girl

    Porter

  • Poster for The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane

    various

1999Aged 33

  • Poster for The Web of Caves

    The Doctor

  • Poster for The Pitch of Fear

    Mr. Borusa

  • Poster for The Kidnappers

    Mark

1997Aged 31

  • Poster for Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up

    (Unknown)

1996Aged 30

  • Poster for Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

    Self - Interviewer

  • Poster for PROBE: Unnatural Selection

    Mr. Emerson

  • Poster for PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne

    Writer

1995Aged 29

  • Poster for Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Highgate House of Horror

    Mr Banham

  • Poster for PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne

    Georgie

1994Aged 28

  • Poster for PROBE: The Zero Imperative

    Dr. William Bruffin

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