David Thewlis
- Acting
- March 20, 1963 · Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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), Lionel St. Swithens (Voice)
- Landscapers · Christopher Edwards
- Val · Self
- 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
- The Mercy · Rodney Hallworth
- Justice League · Ares
- Harry Potter: A History Of Magic · Self
- Big Mouth · Shame Wizard (Voice), Lionel St. Swithens (Voice)
- Wonder Woman · Sir Patrick
- 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, Writer
- 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
- 50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments · Self
- 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
- Athena · Chuck
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince · Remus Lupin
- Veronika Decides to Die · Dr. Blake
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas · Father
- The Inner Life of Martin Frost · Martin Frost
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix · Remus Lupin
- The Omen · Keith Jennings
- The Street · Joe Jennerson / Harry Jennerson
- Basic Instinct 2 · Roy Washburn
- All the Invisible Children · Jonathan (segment "Jonathan")
- The New World · Wingfield
- Kingdom of Heaven · Hospitaler
- The Magic Touch of Harry Potter · Self
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban · Remus Lupin
- Little Wolf's Book of Badness · Mr. Twister (Voice)
- Timeline · Robert Doniger
- Cheeky · Harry Sankey, Director
- Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film · Self
- D.I.Y. Hard · Man
- Dinotopia · Cyrus Crabb
- Discovering Dinotopia · Cyrus
- Dinotopia · Cyrus Crabb
- Hamilton Mattress · Hamilton Mattress (Voice)
- Goodbye Charlie Bright · Charlie's Dad
- Endgame · Clov
- Gangster No. 1 · Freddie Mays
- The Miracle Maker · Judas Iscariot (Voice)
- Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? · Nesbit