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Matthew Holness
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Matthew Holness
Known For
Acting
Birthday
,Whitstable, Kent, England
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

Cemetery Junction

6.5

Cemetery Junction
2010-04-14

A Gun for George

6.9

A Gun for George
2011-05-11

Backstage... at the Cambridge Footlights

0

Backstage... at the Cambridge Footlights
1997-01-01

Dodger Special: Bad Egg

0

Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023-04-07

Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel

7.8

Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2021-05-28

6.2

Festival
2005-07-15

Italia Violenta

0

Italia Violenta
2015-01-01

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

7.925

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
2004-01-29

7.6

Time Trumpet
2006-08-03

Man to Man with Dean Learner

7.333

Man to Man with Dean Learner
2006-10-20

7.817

The Office
2001-07-09

6.7

Bruiser
2000-02-28

6.6

Free Agents
2009-02-13

We Are Lady Parts

7.7

We Are Lady Parts
2021-05-20

The Mighty Boosh

7.6

The Mighty Boosh
2004-05-18

Toast of Tinseltown

7.4

Toast of Tinseltown
2022-01-04

Friday Night Dinner

7.8

Friday Night Dinner
2011-02-25

7.3

Back
2017-09-06

The Russell Howard Hour

8

The Russell Howard Hour
2017-09-21

Toast of London

7.437

Toast of London
2013-10-20

Life's Too Short

7.1

Life's Too Short
2011-11-10

Year of the Rabbit

7.2

Year of the Rabbit
2019-06-10

The Haunting of Bly Manor

7.584

The Haunting of Bly Manor
2020-10-09

2004: The Stupid Version

8.5

2004: The Stupid Version
2004-12-31