David Thewlis

Acting · 4.4 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: March 20, 1963
From: 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.

Works

96 films

Avatar: Fire and Ash

20257.6

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

20048.0

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

20118.1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

20107.7

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

20077.7

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

20097.7

Damage

19926.6

Kingdom of Heaven

20057.1

Zack Snyder's Justice League

20218.1

Wonder Woman

20177.2

The Big Lebowski

19987.8

Justice League

20176.1

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

20087.8

War Horse

20117.3

Enola Holmes 2

20227.4

RED 2

20136.5

Legend

20157.0

Stonehearst Asylum

20146.9

The Theory of Everything

20147.8

Signal One

20266.6

DragonHeart

19966.6

Seven Years in Tibet

19977.2

Timeline

20035.7

The Mercy

20185.9

The Omen

20065.7

Basic Instinct 2

20065.0

James and the Giant Peach

19966.6

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

20206.5

The Amazing Maurice

20226.6

The New World

20056.5

Regression

20155.6

The Zero Theorem

20136.1

Total Eclipse

19956.4

The Fifth Estate

20136.0

Anonymous

20116.4

Naked

19937.3

Black Beauty

19946.7

The Island of Dr. Moreau

19964.9

Macbeth

20156.4

The Lady

20116.8

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Anomalisa

20157.1

The Thing with Feathers

20256.5

The Miracle Maker

20006.1

Life Is Sweet

19917.0

London Boulevard

20105.9

Gangster No. 1

20006.4

Little Dorrit

19876.4

Mr. Nice

20106.1

An Inspector Calls

20157.4

Restoration

19956.1

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

20177.3

Queen & Country

20156.1

Veronika Decides to Die

20095.9

Eternal Beauty

20206.2

The Trial

19936.0

Discovering Dinotopia

20026.4

Cheeky

20036.6

Rare Beasts

20215.5

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

20047.7

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

20006.2

All the Invisible Children

20067.0

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

20185.4

Vroom

19886.5

Dinotopia

20027.6

Besieged

19986.7

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

200310.0

D.I.Y. Hard

20029.0

Resurrected

19896.4

The Organ Grinder's Monkey

20115.0

Little Wolf's Book of Badness

20038.0

Radio Pictures

1985

Guest of Honour

20205.4

The Making of 'DragonHeart'

19977.3

The Inner Life of Martin Frost

20074.5

Separate We Come, Separate We Go

20136.5

American Perfekt

19976.5

Divorcing Jack

19986.0

Athena

2010

Afraid of the Dark

19915.6

Deep Red Instant Love

1988

The Short & Curlies

19876.4

Skulduggery

1991

Filipina Dreamgirls

19917.3

Goodbye Charlie Bright

20015.9

Swords at Teatime

19929.0

Love Story

19999.0

Black and Blue

19929.0

How to Get a Head in Sculpture

20118.0

Journey to Knock

199110.0

Hamilton Mattress

20026.8

Road

19877.2

None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa

2016

Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool

1994

Endgame

20007.3

Sunday Roast

2014