Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss has had a long and varied career as a Writer, Director, and Producer, as well as an Actor and published author. Mark is best known as a member of The League of Gentlemen and as the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of the multi award-winning BBC series Sherlock, in which he played Mycroft Holmes.
Mark both wrote for and appeared in the modern revival of Doctor Who and was the Writer and Executive Producer of An Adventure in Space and Time for its 50th anniversary celebrations. Mark also co-created the BBC and Netflix drama Dracula, and has written and directed several BBC ghost stories including The Mezzotint, Martin’s Close, The Dead Room, and The Tractate Middoth. Other writing credits for television include The Amazing Mr Blunden, Crooked House, The Worst Journey in the World, Poirot, and his adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The First Men in the Moon. Mark wrote and presented the documentary series A History of Horror and its sequel Horror Europa, as well as art documentaries on John Minton and Aubrey Beardsley. Mark curated and directed Queers, a series of eight monologues for BBC Four to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.
As an actor, Mark’s recent film credits include Mission Impossible 7, Operation Mincemeat, The Father, The Favourite, Christopher Robin, Gunpowder, Wolf Hall, Coalition and Game of Thrones. On stage, his credits include Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse), The Boys in the Band (Park/ Vaudeville), Three Days in the Country (NT – Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role), the title role in The Madness of George III (Nottingham Playhouse), and Jacob Marley in his own adaptation of A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse/ Alexandra Palace). Mark has recently directed Steven Moffat’s debut play The Unfriend for Chichester, which in 2023 will transfer to the Criterion in the West End.