Matthew Holness
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Known forActing
GenderMale
Place of birthWhitstable, Kent, England
Known credits28
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 wo…
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023 · Sir Denholm Havers
Toast of Tinseltown
2022 · Richard Chickentoss
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2021 · Self
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
Possum
2018 · Director
Possum
2018 · Writer
The Russell Howard Hour
2017 · Garth Marenghi
Back
2017 · Laurie
Italia Violenta
2015
Toast of London
2013 · Max Gland
The Snipist
2012 · Director
The Snipist
2012 · Writer
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Writer
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Director
Life's Too Short
2011 · Ian
A Gun for George
2011 · Terry / George / The Reprisalizer
A Gun for George
2011 · Music
A Gun for George
2011 · Writer
A Gun for George
2011 · Director
Friday Night Dinner
2011 · Chris Parker
Cemetery Junction
2010 · Band Leader
Free Agents
2009
Man to Man with Dean Learner
2006 · Garth Marenghi
Man to Man with Dean Learner
2006 · Steve Pising
Man to Man with Dean Learner
2006 · Glynn Nimron
Man to Man with Dean Learner
2006 · Merriman Weir
Man to Man with Dean Learner
2006 · Amir Chanan
Man to Man with Dean Learner
2006 · Randolph Caer / Garth Marenghi / Glynn Nimron / Steve Pising / Amir Chanan
Man to Man with Dean Learner
2006 · Writer
Man to Man with Dean Learner
2006 · Creator
Horrificata Illuminata
2006 · Garth Marenghi
Darkplace Illuminatum
2006 · Garth Marenghi
Horrificata Illuminata
2006 · Writer
Darkplace Illuminatum
2006 · Writer
Time Trumpet
2006
Festival
2005 · Roger - Lighting Man
2004: The Stupid Version
2004 · Himself
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
2004 · Garth Marenghi / Dr. Rick Dagless M.D.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
2004 · Writer
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
2004 · Creator
The Office
2001 · Simon
Bruiser
2000
Bruiser
2000 · Additional Writing
Backstage... at the Cambridge Footlights
1997 · Self
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