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Name
David Thewlis

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1963-03-20 (63 years old)

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

Movies

Tv Shows

1997 Seven Years in Tibet as Peter Aufschnaiter
2005 Kingdom of Heaven as Hospitaler
2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Remus Lupin
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Remus Lupin
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Remus Lupin
2006 The Omen as Keith Jennings
1996 James and the Giant Peach as Earthworm (voice)
2006 Basic Instinct 2 as Roy Washburn
2000 Gangster No. 1 as Freddie Mays
2022 Enola Holmes 2 as Grail
1992 Damage as Detective
2000 The Miracle Maker as Judas Iscariot (voice)
1993 Naked as Johnny
2001 Goodbye Charlie Bright as Charlie's Dad
1996 DragonHeart as King Einon
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Remus Lupin
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Remus Lupin
1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau as Douglas
2003 Timeline as Robert Doniger
2009 Veronika Decides to Die as Dr. Blake
1995 Restoration as John Pearce
1994 Black Beauty as Jerry Barker
2008 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as Father
1995 Total Eclipse as Paul Verlaine
1991 Life Is Sweet as Nicola's Lover
1992 Afraid of the Dark as Locksmith / Tom Miller
2011 Anonymous as William Cecil
1998 Divorcing Jack as Dan Starkey
1998 Besieged as Jason Kinsky
2006 All the Invisible Children as Jonathan (segment "Jonathan")
2010 Mr. Nice as Jim McCann
2000 Endgame as Clov
2010 London Boulevard as Jordan
2007 The Inner Life of Martin Frost as Martin Frost
2000 Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Nesbit
1993 The Trial as Franz
1997 The Making of 'DragonHeart' as Self
2011 War Horse as Lyons
1989 Resurrected as Kevin Deakin
2011 The Lady as Michael Aris
2003 Cheeky as Harry Sankey
2013 RED 2 as The Frog
2013 The Zero Theorem as Joby
1991 Filipina Dreamgirls as Tim Shanks
2026 Signal One as Perry
2013 The Fifth Estate as Nick Davies
2002 D.I.Y. Hard as Man
1987 Road as Joey
2004 The Magic Touch of Harry Potter as Self
1988 Vroom as Ringe
2005 The New World as Wingfield
2015 Queen & Country as Sargeant Major Bradley
2014 The Theory of Everything as Dennis Sciama
2015 Macbeth as Duncan
2015 Regression as Professor Kenneth Raines
2011 The Organ Grinder's Monkey as Pablo (voice)
2014 Stonehearst Asylum as Mickey Finn
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2015 Legend as Leslie Payne
1998 The Big Lebowski as Knox Harrington
1987 The Short & Curlies as Clive
1992 Swords at Teatime as Mike
2015 An Inspector Calls as Inspector Goole - The Inspector
1999 Love Story as Dealer
2014 Sunday Roast as Dick Puck
2003 Little Wolf's Book of Badness as Mr. Twister (voice)
2017 Wonder Woman as Sir Patrick
1991 Journey to Knock as Terry
1997 American Perfekt as Santini
2018 The Mercy as Rodney Hallworth
1987 Little Dorrit as George Braddle
2002 Hamilton Mattress as Hamilton Mattress (voice)
2002 Dinotopia as Cyrus Crabb
2013 Separate We Come, Separate We Go as Norman
2011 How to Get a Head in Sculpture as Self
2017 Harry Potter: A History Of Magic as Himself
2017 Justice League as Ares
2020 Eternal Beauty as Mike
2018 Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
2020 Guest of Honour as Jim
2021 Rare Beasts as Vic
1991 Skulduggery as Tony
1992 Black and Blue as Crematorium Attendant
2010 Athena as Chuck
2015 Anomalisa as Michael Stone (voice)
2022 The Amazing Maurice as Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
2016 None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa as Self
2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League as Ares
2020 I'm Thinking of Ending Things as Father
1988 Deep Red Instant Love
2002 Discovering Dinotopia as Cyrus
2025 The Thing with Feathers as Crow (voice)
1994 Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool as Self
1985 Radio Pictures as JIM 'Grams'
2025 Avatar: Fire and Ash as Peylak
2003 Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film as Self - Clov (archive footage)
2021 Val as Self (archive)
2011 50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments as Self - Remus Lupin

1981 Only Fools and Horses ( 1 episode ) as Stew
1991 Prime Suspect ( 2 episodes ) as James Jackson
2021 Landscapers ( 4 episodes ) as Christopher Edwards
1987 Valentine Park ( 12 episodes ) as Max
1994 Dandelion Dead ( 4 episodes ) as Oswald Martin
2022 Human Resources ( 1 episode ) as Memory Bank Manager (voice)
2022 Human Resources ( 20 episodes ) as Lionel St. Swithens (voice)
2006 The Street ( 6 episodes ) as Joe Jennerson / Harry Jennerson
2014 Fargo ( 10 episodes ) as V.M. Vargas
1993 Frank Stubbs Promotes ( 1 episode ) as Mike Bence
2002 Dinotopia ( 3 episodes ) as Cyrus Crabb
1990 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ( 3 episodes ) as Doctor
2022 The Sandman ( 4 episodes ) as John Dee
2025 Sherlock & Daughter ( 8 episodes ) as Sherlock Holmes
2023 The Artful Dodger ( 16 episodes ) as Norbert Fagin
2019 The Feed ( 10 episodes ) as Lawrence Hatfield
2017 Big Mouth ( 8 episodes ) as Shame Wizard (voice)
2020 Barkskins ( 8 episodes ) as Claude Trepagny
2024 KAOS ( 6 episodes ) as Hades
2017 Big Mouth ( 4 episodes ) as Lionel St. Swithens (voice)
1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Franz
1986 The Singing Detective ( 2 episodes ) as Soldier
2026 Dirty Business ( 3 episodes ) as Ash Smith
1986 ScreenPlay ( 1 episode ) as Joey
1986 ScreenPlay ( 1 episode ) as Terry
1989 Screen One ( 1 episode ) as Tim Shanks
1985 Summer Season ( 1 episode ) as Keith
1991 Shrinks ( 1 episode ) as Terry Slater
1993 Naked ( 5 episodes ) as Johnny
2017 Big Mouth ( 1 episode ) as Actor (voice)
1989 A Bit of a Do ( 6 episodes ) as Paul Simcock
1985 Summer Season ( 1 episode ) as Jim 'Grams' Dench

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