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Mark Gatiss

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Mark Gatiss at an event for Sherlock (2010)
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore , her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
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Mark Gatiss is an accomplished author, actor and playwright. Originally from Sedgefield, County Durham, he graduated from Bretton Hall Drama College with a BA (honors) in Theatre Arts.

He was one-quarter of the award-winning comedy team The League of Gentlemen (1999), and became heavily involved in the post-television Doctor Who (1963) scene, having written a variety of novels and audio plays, together with a string of short supernatural/science-fiction films (most of which he appeared in). He also co-wrote three sketches for BBC2's "Doctor Who Night" in November 1999.

When Doctor Who (2005) was re-imagined by Russell T. Davies and returned to television, Gatiss became part of the writing team. He had another major success as the co-creator of Sherlock (2010) for the BBC with Steven Moffat and also stars in the series as Mycroft Holmes. He has co-written plays for the Edinburgh Festival and appeared in a number of theatre and radio shows.
BornOctober 17, 1966
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BornOctober 17, 1966
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  • Won 1 Primetime Emmy

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Mark Gatiss in Gunpowder (2017)
Mark Gatiss in Gunpowder (2017)
Mark Gatiss in Sense & Sensibility (2008)
Mark Gatiss in Game of Thrones (2011)
Mark Gatiss and Lena Headey in Game of Thrones (2011)
Mark Gatiss and Lena Headey in Game of Thrones (2011)
Mark Gatiss and Lena Headey in Game of Thrones (2011)
Mark Gatiss and Lena Headey in Game of Thrones (2011)
Mark Gatiss in Game of Thrones (2011)
Mark Gatiss in Sherlock (2010)
Mark Gatiss in Sherlock (2010)
Mark Gatiss and Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock (2010)

Known for

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith in The League of Gentlemen (1999)
The League of Gentlemen
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  • Various Characters
  • Various
  • Various characters
Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock (2010)
Sherlock
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TV Series
  • Mycroft Holmes
Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, and Olivia Colman in The Favourite (2018)
The Favourite
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  • Lord Marlborough
  • 2018
Alan Cumming, Rebecca Front, Ian Gelder, Russell Tovey, Ben Whishaw, Gemma Whelan, Kadiff Kirwan, and Fionn Whitehead in Queers (2017)
Queers
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    • Completed
  • Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One
    • Post-production
  • Moustache Man
    • Post-production
  • The Motive and the Cue
    • Pre-production
  • Michael Sheen and David Tennant in Good Omens (2019)
    Good Omens
  • Inside No. 9 (2014)
    Inside No. 9
  • Simon Callow, Mark Gatiss, Tamsin Greig, Jason Rennie, Xavier Wilkins, Tsion Habte, and India Fowler in The Amazing Mr Blunden (2021)
    The Amazing Mr Blunden
  • Colin Firth, Jason Isaacs, Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen, Penelope Wilton, and Johnny Flynn in Operation Mincemeat (2021)
    Operation Mincemeat
  • The Road Dance (2021)
    The Road Dance
  • Getting Better (2021)
    Getting Better
  • Memento Mori (2021)
    Memento Mori
    • (voice)
  • A Silent Imprisonment (2021)
    A Silent Imprisonment
  • Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Locked Down (2021)
    Locked Down
  • Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman in The Father (2020)
    The Father
  • Claes Bang in Dracula (2020)
    Dracula
  • Benedict Cumberbatch in Brexit (2019)
    Brexit
    • (voice)
  • The Haunting of M.R. James (2018)
    The Haunting of M.R. James
  • The Dead Room (2018)
    The Dead Room
    • (voice)
  • Julia Davis in Sally4Ever (2018)
    Sally4Ever

Writer

  • Count Magnus (2022)
    Count Magnus
  • Rory Kinnear in The Mezzotint (2021)
    The Mezzotint
  • Simon Callow, Mark Gatiss, Tamsin Greig, Jason Rennie, Xavier Wilkins, Tsion Habte, and India Fowler in The Amazing Mr Blunden (2021)
    The Amazing Mr Blunden
  • Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
  • Claes Bang in Dracula (2020)
    Dracula
    • ...
  • Martin's Close (2019)
    Martin's Close
  • The Dead Room (2018)
    The Dead Room
  • The League of Gentlemen - Live Again! (2018)
    The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
  • Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
  • Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith in The League of Gentlemen (1999)
    The League of Gentlemen
  • Nerida Bronwen in Old Who vs. New Who (2017)
    Old Who vs. New Who
  • Alan Cumming, Rebecca Front, Ian Gelder, Russell Tovey, Ben Whishaw, Gemma Whelan, Kadiff Kirwan, and Fionn Whitehead in Queers (2017)
    Queers
  • Bradley Walsh, Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, and Mandip Gill in Doctor Who (2005)
    Doctor Who
  • Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock (2010)
    Sherlock
    • ...
  • MR James: Ghost Writer (2013)
    MR James: Ghost Writer

Producer

  • Count Magnus (2022)
    Count Magnus
  • Rory Kinnear in The Mezzotint (2021)
    The Mezzotint
  • Claes Bang in Dracula (2020)
    Dracula
  • Mark Gatiss in In Search of Dracula with Mark Gatiss (2020)
    In Search of Dracula with Mark Gatiss
  • Martin's Close (2019)
    Martin's Close
  • The Dead Room (2018)
    The Dead Room
  • Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith in The League of Gentlemen (1999)
    The League of Gentlemen
  • Alan Cumming, Rebecca Front, Ian Gelder, Russell Tovey, Ben Whishaw, Gemma Whelan, Kadiff Kirwan, and Fionn Whitehead in Queers (2017)
    Queers
  • Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock (2010)
    Sherlock
  • Sherlock: The Network (2014)
    Sherlock: The Network
  • Sacha Dhawan in The Tractate Middoth (2013)
    The Tractate Middoth
  • William Hartnell: The Original
  • An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)
    An Adventure in Space and Time
  • The First Men in the Moon (2010)
    The First Men in the Moon
  • Crooked House (2008)
    Crooked House
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Personal details

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    • Official twitter account
    • PBJ Management
    • October 17, 1966
    • Sedgefield, England, UK
    • Ian Hallard2008 - present
  • Other works
    Audio plays: Guest actor in "The New Adventures", a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions Ltd. based on Virgin Publishing Ltd.'s book range of the same name. He appeared in the stories "Oh No It Isn't!" and "Just War".
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    • 4 Interviews

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    In 1997, along with his fellow League of Gentlemen (Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson), he won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They became the first sketch group to win since the Awards began in 1981. The first Sketch group to win was The Cambridge Footlights which featured Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Paul Dwyer and Paul Shearer.
  • Quotes
    [on Nigel Kneale] He is amongst the greats - he is absolutely as important as Dennis Potter, as David Mercer, as Alan Bleasdale, as Alan Bennett, but I think because of a strange snobbery about fantasy or sci-fi it's never quite been that way. Now he's gone, perhaps people will reassess - his major works are absolutely of lasting importance. He was a TV giant.
    • His writings frequently have a Victorian setting to them

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