David Thewlis
Acting
Born 1963-03-20
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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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.
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Filmography
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
Fargo
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Big Mouth
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Sandman
Kingdom of Heaven
Screen Two
Damage
Justice League
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Wonder Woman
The Big Lebowski
Prime Suspect
Human Resources
Sherlock & Daughter
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Artful Dodger
Enola Holmes 2
Only Fools and Horses
War Horse
Legend
KAOS
RED 2
Stonehearst Asylum
Seven Years in Tibet
ScreenPlay
The Theory of Everything
Signal One
DragonHeart
Screen One
Basic Instinct 2
The Mercy
Timeline
The Omen
James and the Giant Peach
Landscapers
The Street
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The Amazing Maurice
The New World
Dinotopia
Regression
Naked
The Fifth Estate
The Zero Theorem
Black Beauty
Total Eclipse
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Feed
Anomalisa
Anonymous
The Singing Detective
Macbeth
The Lady
Barkskins
Life Is Sweet
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