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Whitstable, Kent, England
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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 Ma...
2010
as Band Leader
2011
as Terry / George / The Reprisalizer
1997
2023
as Sir Denholm Havers
2005
as Roger - Lighting Man
2015
2011
as Music
2011
as Director
2011
as Writer
2018
as Writer
2018
as Director
2012
as Director
2012
as Writer
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