Matthew Holness
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Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Whitstable, Kent, England
Also know as
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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...Read more
Acting
(2010) Cemetery Junction
as Band Leader
(2011) A Gun for George
as Terry / George / The Reprisalizer
(1997) Backstage... at the Cambridge Footlights
as Self
(2023) Dodger Special: Bad Egg
as Sir Denholm Havers
(2021) Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
as Himself
(2005) Festival
as Roger - Lighting Man
(2015) Italia Violenta
as ---
(2004) Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
as Garth Marenghi / Dr. Rick Dagless M.D.
(2006) Time Trumpet
as ---
(2006) Man to Man with Dean Learner
as ---
(2001) The Office
as Simon
(2000) Bruiser
as ---
(2009) Free Agents
as ---
(2021) We Are Lady Parts
as Gameshow host
(2004) The Mighty Boosh
as Bob Fossil
(2022) Toast of Tinseltown
as Richard Chickentoss
(2011) Friday Night Dinner
as Chris Parker
(2017) Back
as Laurie
(2017) The Russell Howard Hour
as Garth Marenghi
(2013) Toast of London
as Max Gland
(2011) Life's Too Short
as Ian
(2019) Year of the Rabbit
as Hector, Crown Prince of Bulgaria
(2020) The Haunting of Bly Manor
as Dominic Wingrave