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(Whitstable, Kent, England) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 A Gun for George, Horrificata Illuminata, Darkplace Illuminatum가 있으며, 그 외에도 The Office, 블라이 저택의 유령, Toast of London, Friday Night Dinner, The Russell Howard Hour, We Are Lady Parts, Toast of Tinseltown, Man to Man with Dean Learner, Year of the Rabbit, Life's Too Short, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, 백 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2023년 Dodger Special: Bad Egg에서 Sir Denholm Havers 역을 맡았다. 2022년 Toast of Tinseltown에서 Richard Chickentoss 역을 맡았다. 2021년 Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel에 출연했다.