1. Matthew James Holness was born on 1975 and is an English comedian, director, author, plus actor.
12 Facts About Matthew Holness
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Matthew Holness is known for creating and portraying the fictional horror author Garth Marenghi.
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Matthew Holness received the Master of Arts from Cambridge, graduating in absentia due to his comedy work.
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Matthew Holness attended Chaucer Technology School in Canterbury and went on to read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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Matthew Holness served as vice-president when David Mitchell was president.
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Matthew Holness first appeared on television as a cast-member of the short-lived BBC Two comedy series Bruiser in 2000.
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Matthew Holness played the role of Simon, an arrogant and sarcastic computer technician in series two of The Office, which aired in 2002.
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Matthew Holness played the part of a smug lawyer in Life's Too Short, a sitcom starring Warwick Davis.
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Matthew Holness wrote and directed a 2012 short film for Sky Arts' Playhouse Presents series entitled "The Snipist", which depicted a dystopian alternative 1970s Britain stricken by rabies.
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Matthew Holness wrote and directed the 2016 "Smutch", a Halloween Comedy Short shown on Sky Arts, in which he played an embittered author haunted by a ghostwriter.
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In interviews to promote Possum, Matthew Holness said he had written a script for another horror film which he was hoping to get made.
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In 2022, Matthew Holness announced a short fiction collection entitled Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome.