Matthew Holness
- Known for
- Acting
- Birthplace
- Whitstable, Kent, England
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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Filmography
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
Movie · as Sir Denholm Havers
Toast of Tinseltown
TV · as Richard Chickentoss · 1 ep
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
Movie · as Self
We Are Lady Parts
TV · as Gameshow host · 1 ep
The Haunting of Bly Manor
TV · as Dominic Wingrave · 2 eps
Year of the Rabbit
TV · as Hector, Crown Prince of Bulgaria · 1 ep
Back
TV · as Laurie · 6 eps
The Russell Howard Hour
TV · as Garth Marenghi · 1 ep
Italia Violenta
Movie
Toast of London
TV · as Max Gland · 1 ep
A Gun for George
Movie · as Terry / George / The Reprisalizer
Friday Night Dinner
TV · as Chris Parker · 1 ep
Life's Too Short
TV · as Ian · 2 eps
Cemetery Junction
Movie · as Band Leader
Free Agents
TV · as Dan Mackey · 6 eps
Horrificata Illuminata
Movie · as Garth Marenghi
Darkplace Illuminatum
Movie · as Garth Marenghi
Time Trumpet
TV · 6 eps
Man to Man with Dean Learner
TV · as Garth Marenghi, Steve Pising, Glynn Nimron, Merriman Weir, Amir Chanan, Randolph Caer / Garth Marenghi / Glynn Nimron / Steve Pising / Amir Chanan · 1 ep
Festival
Movie · as Roger - Lighting Man
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
TV · as Garth Marenghi / Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. · 6 eps
2004: The Stupid Version
TV · as Himself · 2 eps
The Office
TV · as Simon · 1 ep
Bruiser
TV · 6 eps
Backstage... at the Cambridge Footlights
Movie · as Self