David Thewlis
Acting
- Born:
- 1963-03-20
- Place of birth:
- 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
Dirty Business
Avatar: Fire and Ash
The Thing with Feathers
Sherlock & Daughter
KAOS
The Artful Dodger
The Amazing Maurice
Enola Holmes 2
The Sandman
Human Resources
Landscapers
Val
Rare Beasts
Zack Snyder's Justice League
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Eternal Beauty
Guest of Honour
Barkskins
The Feed
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
The Mercy
Justice League
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Big Mouth
Wonder Woman
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
Anomalisa
Regression
Macbeth
An Inspector Calls
Legend
Queen & Country
The Theory of Everything
Stonehearst Asylum
Fargo
Sunday Roast
Separate We Come, Separate We Go
The Fifth Estate
The Zero Theorem
RED 2
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
War Horse
The Lady
Anonymous
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
How to Get a Head in Sculpture
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
London Boulevard
Mr. Nice
Athena
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Veronika Decides to Die
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Omen
The Street
Basic Instinct 2
All the Invisible Children
The New World
Kingdom of Heaven
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Little Wolf's Book of Badness
Timeline
Cheeky
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
D.I.Y. Hard
Dinotopia
Discovering Dinotopia
Dinotopia
Hamilton Mattress
Goodbye Charlie Bright
Endgame
Gangster No. 1
The Miracle Maker
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Love Story
Divorcing Jack
The Big Lebowski
Besieged
Seven Years in Tibet
American Perfekt
The Making of 'DragonHeart'
The Island of Dr. Moreau
DragonHeart
James and the Giant Peach
Restoration
Total Eclipse
Dandelion Dead
Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool
Black Beauty
Naked
Frank Stubbs Promotes
The Trial
Naked
Damage
Black and Blue
Swords at Teatime
Afraid of the Dark
Journey to Knock
Filipina Dreamgirls
Skulduggery
Prime Suspect
Life Is Sweet
Shrinks
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Screen One
Resurrected
A Bit of a Do
Vroom
Deep Red Instant Love
Little Dorrit
The Short & Curlies
Road
Valentine Park
The Singing Detective
ScreenPlay
Radio Pictures
Summer Season
Screen Two
Only Fools and Horses