Matthew Holness

Matthew Holness

Acting Whitstable, Kent, England

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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2023 Sir Denholm Havers
2022 Richard Chickentoss
2021 Gameshow host
2020 Dominic Wingrave
2019 Hector, Crown Prince of Bulgaria
2018 Writer
2018 Director
2017 Laurie
2017 Garth Marenghi
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2013 Max Gland
2012 Director
2012 Writer
2012 Writer
2011 Terry / George / The Reprisalizer
2011 Chris Parker
2011 Ian
2011 Music
2011 Director
2011 Writer
2010 Band Leader
2006 Garth Marenghi
2006 Steve Pising
2006 Glynn Nimron
2006 Merriman Weir
2006 Amir Chanan
2006 Randolph Caer / Garth Marenghi / Glynn Nimron / Steve Pising / Amir Chanan
2005 Roger - Lighting Man
2004 Garth Marenghi / Dr. Rick Dagless M.D.
2004 Himself
2001 Simon
2000
2000 Additional Writing