Matthew Holness

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

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Place of Birth

Whitstable, Kent, England

Matthew Holness

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 Ma...

Acting

2010

Cemetery Junction

as Band Leader

2011

A Gun for George

as Terry / George / The Reprisalizer

2023

Dodger Special: Bad Egg

as Sir Denholm Havers

2005

Festival

as Roger - Lighting Man

Production

2011

2011

A Gun for George

as Director

2011

2018

Possum

as Writer

2018

Possum

as Director

2012

The Snipist

as Director

2012

The Snipist

as Writer

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