
Matthew Holness
Known for ActingWhitstable, 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.Read more
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The Snipist
2012 · Movie
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The Russell Howard Hour
2017 · Series
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
2004 · Series
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2004: The Stupid Version
2004 · Series
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Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2021 · Movie
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Friday Night Dinner
2011 · Series
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The Office
2001 · Series
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We Are Lady Parts
2021 · Series
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The Haunting of Bly Manor
2020 · Series
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Toast of London
2013 · Series
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Toast of Tinseltown
2022 · Series
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Time Trumpet
2006 · Series
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Back
2017 · Series
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Life's Too Short
2011 · Series
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Man to Man with Dean Learner
2006 · Series
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Year of the Rabbit
2019 · Series
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A Gun for George
2011 · Movie
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Bruiser
2000 · Series
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Free Agents
2009 · Series
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Cemetery Junction
2010 · Movie
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Possum
2018 · Movie
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Playhouse Presents
2012 · Series
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Festival
2005 · Movie

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Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023 · Movie

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Italia Violenta
2015 · Movie
Backstage... at the Cambridge Footlights
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Backstage... at the Cambridge Footlights
1997 · Movie

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