Matthew Holness (Actor)

Reviews of Matthew Holness Movies

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Movies starring Matthew Holness have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.

Cemetery Junction - released in 2010 - is Matthew Holness's highest rated movie, with a score of 65% based on 451 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Matthew Holness is Cemetery Junction - released in 2010 - with a score of 65% based on 451 reviews.

Actor 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 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.

Matthew Holness has acted in films with Ralph Fiennes, Matthew Goode, Felicity Jones and Emily Watson.

Matthew Holness has worked with these film directors: Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.