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Mark Gatiss (/ˈɡeɪtɪs/; born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. He is best known for his work on television, acting in and co-creating shows with Steven Moffat. Gatiss has received several awards, including a BAFTA TV Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and two Laurence Olivier Awards. Gatiss co-created, co-wrote and acted in the BBC comedy series The League of Gentlemen (1999–2002). He co-created and portrayed Mycroft Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock (2010–2017) and Frank Renfield in the BBC / Netflix miniseries Dracula (2020). He also wrote several episodes of Doctor Who during Moffat's tenure as showrunner and two episodes during Russell T Davies' earlier tenure. His other TV roles include Tycho Nestoris in Game of Thrones (2014–2017), Stephen Gardiner in Wolf Hall (2015), and Peter Mandelson in Coalition (2015). He has acted in films such as Victor Frankenstein (2015), Denial (2016), Christopher Robin (2018), The Favourite (2018), The Father (2020), Operation Mincemeat (2021), and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). On stage, Gatiss played Menenius in the revival of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus (2013), for which he earned a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination. He took on the role of King George III in a revival of the Alan Bennett play The Madness of George III (2018). He portrayed Sir John Gielgud in the Jack Thorne play The Motive and the Cue (2023), for which he earned the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. His other theatre roles include The Recruiting Officer (2012), The Vote (2015), and A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Gatiss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Mark Gatiss

Monsieur Bouc
for Monsieur Bouc in Murder on the Orient Express
Suggested by nickienicks

The Orient Express, a luxury train traveling across Europe - from Istanbul to Calais - one December night in 1930 becomes the scene of a case, to solve which Hercule Poirot, who happened to be among its passengers, must use all his wit and genius to solve it. He has enough time for this, because the train, trapped by a snow calamity somewhere in the interior of Yugoslavia, has no choice but to wait patiently for release from the snowdrifts. Meanwhile, the famous Belgian detective tries to find out who is the perpetrator of the unusual murder of an American millionaire - and what was the motive... What begins as a luxury train ride from Istanbul to London quickly turns into one of the most exciting and mysterious detective stories, that was ever told. The subject of this novel provided Agatha Christie with a real case - a kidnapping in the family of the world-famous aviator and American national hero Charles Lindbergh.
