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| Birth Name(s) : Mark Gatiss |
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Full Mark Gatiss Biography
Gatiss was born in Sedgefield, County Durham, England. He currently lives in Islington, London, with his partner Ian and their dog Bunsen. In 2006, Gatiss was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Huddersfield.
He is best known as a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen (along with fellow performers Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and co-writer Jeremy Dyson), which initially began as a stage act in 1995, transferred to BBC Radio 4 as On the Town with the League of Gentlemen in 1997 and then arrived on television on BBC Two in 1999. The latter has seen Gatiss and his colleagues awarded with a British Academy Television Award, a Royal Television Society Award and the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux.
He met his League of Gentlemen co-writers and performers at Bretton Hall drama school in his late teens, which he began attending after finishing school and having spent a gap year travelling around Europe.
Outside of the League, Gatiss' television work has included writing for the 2001 revival of comic telefantasy Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) and script editing the popular sketch show Little Britain in 2003, making guest appearances in both. In 2001 he guested on Spaced as a villainous government employee modelled on Agent Smith. Other acting appearances include the comedy-drama In the Red (BBC Two, 1999], the macabre sitcom Nighty Night (BBC Three, 2003), and the live 2005 remake of the classic sci-fi serial The Quatermass Experiment. A second series of Nighty Night and the new comedy-drama Funland, the latter co-written by his League cohort Jeremy Dyson, both featured Gatiss and aired on BBC Three in the autumn of 2005. He appeared as Johnnie Cradock, alongside Nighty Night star Julia Davis as Fanny Cradock, in Fear of Fanny on BBC Four in October 2006, and featured as Ratty in a new production of The Wind in the Willows shown on BBC One on 1 January 2007.
He also took an on-screen role in one episode of Doctor Who in 2007 (Professor Lazarus in "The Lazarus Experiment"), making him only the third person — after Glyn Jones and Victor Pemberton — and the first of the new series to both write for and act in the programme. Also in 2007, he appeared as Robert Louis Stevenson in Jekyll, a BBC One serial by his fellow Doctor Who scriptwriter Steven Moffat.
Mark is currently appearing in the stage adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother, being staged at the Old Vic in London from 25 Aug-24 Nov. He has won much critical acclaim for his portrayl of the semi-transsexual Agrado.
He also wrote and performed the comedy sketches The Web of Caves, The Kidnappers and The Pitch of Fear for the BBC's "Doctor Who Night" in 1999 with Little Britain's David Walliams, and played the Master in the Doctor Who Unbound play Sympathy for the Devil under the name "Sam Kisgart", a pseudonym he had previously used for a column in Doctor Who Magazine. (The pseudonym is an anagram of "Mark Gatiss", a nod to the Master who often used anagrams or translations of his title as false names, and to Anthony Ainley, who was sometimes credited under an anagram to conceal the Master's identity from the viewers.)
In mainstream print, Gatiss is responsible for an acclaimed biography of the film director James Whale. His first non-Doctor Who novel, The Vesuvius Club, was published in 2004, for which he was nominated in the category of Best Newcomer in the 2006 British Book Awards. A follow up, The Devil in Amber, was released on 6 November. It transports the main character, Lucifer Box, from the Edwardian era in the first book to the roaring Twenties/Thirties. On the release of The Devil in Amber, Gatiss gave an in-depth interview to stv about his writing and comedy work. |
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