Mathew Horne

Mathew Frazer Horne (born 6 September 1978) is an English actor, comedian, singer, television presenter, and narrator. He is best known for appearing on several BBC sketch shows and sitcoms, most notably Gavin & Stacey (as Gavin Shipman), The Catherine Tate Show, Horne & Corden, and Bad Education. He attended Burton Joyce Primary School. While at school he played in goal for Notts County juniors. He studied A level performing arts at Southwell Minster School in Nottinghamshire, and gained a degree in drama from the University of Manchester. He met Bruce Mackinnon there in the first few weeks of term; they realised they shared a similar sense of humour, but did not write material together until the third year of their studies.

Career Horne began his career as a comedian and became half of comedy duo Mat and MacKinnon, In 2008, Horne appeared in a modern adaptation of the Three Billy Goats Gruff as part of the BBC's Fairy Tales season. He also appeared as a young Mr. Grace in Are You Being Served?.

He played Private Walker in Dad's Army: The Missing Episodes, in the 2019 UKTV Original produced series. He starred in all three episodes aired on the TV channel Gold.

In early 2019, an announcement was made that Catherine Tate's Nan would be developed into a feature film adaptation. The film was scheduled to be released on 19 June 2020 but was indefinitely postponed due to cinemas being closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The trailer and poster for the film were released on 18 February 2022 with Josie Rourke receiving an executive producer credit and no director credited. The film was released on 18 March 2022.

In 2021, Horne began voicing Marvin, an anthropomorphic mole in an advertising campaign for Vision Express.

In May 2022, Horne appeared as Edgar in series 8, episode 4 of the BBC dark comedy series, Inside No. 9, "Love Is A Stranger".

Work with James Corden

Since working on the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey, Horne has collaborated several times with its co-creator James Corden.

Nicholas Yanes of Scifipulse.net found it to be "a great B film" worth becoming a cult classic.

On 20 December 2018, Horne was struck by a train as he was crossing the railway line, after leaving the Lord Nelson pub, near to his parents' home in Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire. Horne was said not to have been injured and had been near a dedicated pedestrian crossing across the Nottingham to Newark railway line.

Horne was engaged to actress Evelyn Hoskins until 2018. Horne married set-designer Celina Bassili in September 2021, in Norway. They had been romantically linked since July 2019.

Filmography Film

Television

Stage

Radio

Awards and nominations