Acting credits
22
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Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Matthew Holness
Acting
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Movies: 8Series: 17Crew credits: 7
TMDB ID: 116267
IMDb ID: nm1478358
Known for: Acting
Place of birth: Whitstable, Kent, England
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 2000 - 2023
Years active: 24
Average TMDB rating: 7.28
Wikidata: Q6790695
Other jobs
Writer (4)Additional Writing (1)Director (1)Music (1)
Biography
Born in Whitstable, Kent in 1975, Matthew Holness is an English comedian, actor, writer and director. He is best known for his comic creation, the fictional horror novelist Garth Marenghi. He read English at Trinity College, Cambridge and was vice-president of the Cambridge Footlights. His contemporaries included Footlights president, David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Olivia Colman and his Marenghi co-writer Richard Ayoade. Holness first appeared on television as a cast-member of the 2000 BBC Choice TV series Bruiser, which starred Mitchell, Webb, Colman and Martin Freeman. In that same year he won the Perrier at the Edinburgh Fringe for Garty Marenghi's Fright Night, which was transferred to UK television in the guise of the 2004 Channel 4 horror comedy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Other credits include 2006's Man to Man with Dean Learner, several productions with Ricky Gervais such as The Office, Life's Too Short and Cemetery Junction, and the 2017 Channel 4 sitcom Back which starred Mitchell and Webb. In 2018 he made his feature length directorial debut with the film Possum, having previously helmed short films The Snipist and A Gun For George.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Matthew Holness.
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
as Sir Denholm Havers
2023 Movie
7.8
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
as Self
2021 Movie
6.2
Possum
Writer
2018 Movie
Italia Violenta
2015 Movie
9.0
The Snipist
Director
2012 Movie
6.9
A Gun for George
as Terry / George / The Reprisalizer
2011 Movie
6.5
Cemetery Junction
as Band Leader
2010 Movie
5.8
Festival
as Roger - Lighting Man
2005 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Matthew Holness.
7.2
Toast of Tinseltown
as Richard Chickentoss • 1 eps
2022 Series
7.6
We Are Lady Parts
as Gameshow host • 1 eps
2021 Series
7.6
The Haunting of Bly Manor
as Dominic Wingrave • 2 eps
2020 Series
7.0
Year of the Rabbit
as Hector, Crown Prince of Bulgaria • 1 eps
2019 Series
8.0
The Russell Howard Hour
as Garth Marenghi • 1 eps
2017 Series
7.3
Back
as Laurie • 6 eps
2017 Series
7.4
Toast of London
as Max Gland • 1 eps
2013 Series
6.0
Playhouse Presents
Writer • 1 eps
2012 Series
7.2
Life's Too Short
as Ian • 2 eps
2011 Series
7.9
Friday Night Dinner
as Chris Parker • 1 eps
2011 Series
6.6
Free Agents
6 eps
2009 Series
7.1
Man to Man with Dean Learner
as Garth Marenghi • 1 eps
2006 Series
7.4
Time Trumpet
6 eps
2006 Series
8.0
2004: The Stupid Version
as Himself • 2 eps
2004 Series
8.0
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
as Garth Marenghi / Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. • 6 eps
2004 Series
7.8
The Office
as Simon • 1 eps
2001 Series
6.7
Bruiser
6 eps
2000 Series