David Thewlis

Known for ActingBorn 1963-03-20 (age 63)Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

Journey to Knock

Dirty Business

D.I.Y. Hard

Love Story

Dandelion Dead

Swords at Teatime

Black and Blue

Fargo

The Artful Dodger

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Dinotopia

How to Get a Head in Sculpture

The Sandman

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Little Wolf's Book of Badness

The Theory of Everything

Only Fools and Horses

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Big Lebowski

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Big Mouth

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Avatar: Fire and Ash

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

Prime Suspect

The Street

Enola Holmes 2

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

An Inspector Calls

KAOS

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

Frank Stubbs Promotes

War Horse

The Singing Detective

Wonder Woman

The Making of 'DragonHeart'

Endgame

Anomalisa

Legend

Naked

Filipina Dreamgirls

Seven Years in Tibet

Road

Kingdom of Heaven

All the Invisible Children