Matthew Holness
Known for: Acting
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…
Known for
A Gun for George
2011
Italia Violenta
2015
Backstage... at the Cambridge Footlights
1997
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
2004
Time Trumpet
2006
The Office
2001
Bruiser
2000
Free Agents
2009
We Are Lady Parts
2021
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023
Festival
2005
Toast of Tinseltown
2022
Friday Night Dinner
2011
Cemetery Junction
2010
Back
2017
The Russell Howard Hour
2017
Toast of London
2013
Life's Too Short
2011
Year of the Rabbit
2019
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2021
The Haunting of Bly Manor
2020
2004: The Stupid Version
2004
Man to Man with Dean Learner
2006