Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 20, 1963
Place of Birth
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Credits
123 titles
David Thewlis
Biography
David Wheeler (born March 20, 1963), better known as David Thewlis, is an English actor and filmmaker. He is known as a character actor and has appeared in a wide variety of genres in both film and television. He has received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and nominations for two BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Award, Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Thewlis made his film debut in Little Dorrit (1987) and acted in the Mike Leigh films Life is Sweet (1990) and Naked (1993), winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for the latter. He then appeared in films such as Black Beauty (1994), Restoration (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Dragonheart (1996), and Seven Years in Tibet (1997). He became more widely known to film audiences for his roles as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter franchise (2004–2011) and Ares / Sir Patrick Morgan in Wonder Woman (2017). Other film roles include Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Anomalisa (2015), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), and Enola Holmes 2 (2022). Thewlis' most notable television roles include V. M. Varga in the third season of FX's Fargo (2017), the voice of the Shame Wizard in the Netflix animated sitcoms Big Mouth (2017–present) and Human Resources (2022–present), Christopher Edwards in the HBO miniseries Landscapers (2021), and John Dee in the Netflix drama series The Sandman (2022). His performance in Fargo earned him nominations for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Critics' Choice Award.
Known For
Filmography
Signal One
Perry
Dirty Business
Ash Smith
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Peylak
The Thing with Feathers
Crow (voice)
Sherlock & Daughter
Sherlock Holmes
KAOS
Hades
The Artful Dodger
Norbert Fagin
The Amazing Maurice
Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
Enola Holmes 2
Grail
The Sandman
John Dee
Human Resources
Memory Bank Manager (voice)
Landscapers
Christopher Edwards
Rare Beasts
Vic
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Ares
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Father
Eternal Beauty
Mike
Guest of Honour
Jim
Barkskins
Claude Trepagny
The Feed
Lawrence Hatfield
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Self (archive footage)
The Mercy
Rodney Hallworth
Justice League
Ares
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Himself
Big Mouth
Shame Wizard (voice)
Wonder Woman
Sir Patrick / Ares
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
Self
Anomalisa
Michael Stone (voice)
Regression
Professor Kenneth Raines
Macbeth
Duncan
An Inspector Calls
Inspector Goole - The Inspector
Legend
Leslie Payne
Queen & Country
Sargeant Major Bradley
The Theory of Everything
Dennis Sciama
Stonehearst Asylum
Mickey Finn
Fargo
V.M. Vargas
Sunday Roast
Dick Puck
Separate We Come, Separate We Go
Norman
The Fifth Estate
Nick Davies
The Zero Theorem
Joby
RED 2
The Frog
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
War Horse
Lyons
The Lady
Michael Aris
Anonymous
William Cecil
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Remus Lupin
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
Pablo (voice)
How to Get a Head in Sculpture
Self
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Remus Lupin
London Boulevard
Jordan
Mr. Nice
Jim McCann