Water Rat

...As (Mole) gazed, something bright and small seemed to twinkle down in the heart of it, vanished, then twinkled once more like a tiny star. But it could hardly be a star in such an unlikely situation; and it was too glittering and small for a glow-worm. Then, as he looked, it winked at him, and so declared itself to be an eye; and a small face began gradually to grow up round it, like a frame round a picture.

A brown little face, with whiskers.

A grave round face, with the same twinkle in its eye that had first attracted his notice.

Small neat ears and thick silky hair.

It was the Water Rat!

Mark Gatiss, one quarter of the award-winning comedy team 'The League of Gentlemen,' is an accomplished author, actor and playwright. A graduate of Bretton Hall Drama College, he has made numerous television appearances including roles in Footballers' Wives, Spaced and Miss Marple: Murder at the Vicarage. He provided the voice of Miss Blight in 2005's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and can be seen in Starter for Ten (2006) with James McAvoy.

Gatiss and his fellow League of Gentlemen (Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson) have won BAFTA awards, RTS Television awards and, in 1997, the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They were the first sketch group to win since the Festival began in 1981.