Mark Gatiss
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Mark Gatiss is a British male author and performer whose career began in 1993. He is associated with the United Kingdom and has produced a body of work that includes titles such as *Doctor Who*, *Doctor Who Nightshade*, *Niewidomy bankier*, and *Contemporary Xmas*. His literary output comprises 45 works, with *Level 2 : Doctor Who* listed among his top entries.
In addition to his written works, Gatiss is recognized in music databases for spoken word performances. His artistic profile is tagged with descriptors including "spoken word," "english," "queer," and "britain." He maintains a social media presence with 728,057 followers. His work has been referenced in 654 other encyclopedia articles, and he has five works indexed in academic databases.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 45
Top works
- Level 2 : Doctor Who
- Doctor Who
- Doctor Who Nightshade
- Niewidomy bankier
- Contemporary Xmas
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1966-10-17
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 324
- Total plays
- 13,075
Tags
Mark Gatiss (born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, screenwriter and novelist. He is best known as a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen, and is one of only three people to have both written for and acted in Doctor Who. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Gatiss">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,894x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,098x
- Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches
· 1995 · cited 40,228x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,707x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,418x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1966-10-17 ) 17 October 1966 (age 59) , Sedgefield , County Durham, England
- Alma mater
- Bretton Hall College of Education
- Occupations
- Actor screenwriter producer comedian novelist director
- Years active
- 1993–present
- Spouse
- Ian Hallard ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2008 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mark Gatiss (/ˈɡeɪtɪs/ ; born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. Best known for his acting work on stage and screen as well as for co-creating television shows with Steven Moffat, he has received awards including two Laurence Olivier Awards, a BAFTA TV Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Peabody Award.
Gatiss co-created, co-wrote and acted in BBC comedy series The League of Gentlemen (1999–2002). He portrayed Mycroft Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock (2010–2017) and Frank Renfield in BBC / Netflix miniseries Dracula (2020), both of which he co-created with Moffat, and wrote several episodes of Doctor Who. 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).
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