Matthew Holness
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.
Fotos
Películas (11)
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023 · Sir Denholm Havers
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2021 · Self
Possum
2018 · Director, Writer
Italia Violenta
2015
The Snipist
2012 · Director, Writer
A Gun for George
2011 · Terry / George / The Reprisalizer, Music, Writer, Director
Cemetery Junction
2010 · Band Leader
Horrificata Illuminata
2006 · Garth Marenghi, Writer
Darkplace Illuminatum
2006 · Garth Marenghi, Writer
Festival
2005 · Roger - Lighting Man
Backstage... at the Cambridge Footlights
1997 · Self
Series (17)
Toast of Tinseltown
2022 · Richard Chickentoss
We Are Lady Parts
2021 · Gameshow host
The Haunting of Bly Manor
2020 · Dominic Wingrave
Year of the Rabbit
2019 · Hector, Crown Prince of Bulgaria
The Russell Howard Hour
2017 · Garth Marenghi
Back
2017 · Laurie
Toast of London
2013 · Max Gland
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Writer, Director
Life's Too Short
2011 · Ian
Friday Night Dinner
2011 · Chris Parker
Free Agents
2009
Man to Man with Dean Learner
2006 · Garth Marenghi, Steve Pising, Glynn Nimron, Merriman Weir, Amir Chanan, Randolph Caer / Garth Marenghi / Glynn Nimron / Steve Pising / Amir Chanan, Writer, Creator
Time Trumpet
2006
2004: The Stupid Version
2004 · Himself
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
2004 · Garth Marenghi / Dr. Rick Dagless M.D., Writer, Creator
The Office
2001 · Simon
Bruiser
2000 · Additional Writing