David Thewlis
89 movies · 27 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 20, 1963 (age 63)
- Place of birth
- Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
- Also known as
- David Wheeler
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).
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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
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★ 8.0 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · Film
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★ 8.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · Film
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★ 7.7 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 · Film
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★ 7.7 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009 · Film
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★ 7.2 Wonder Woman
2017 · Film
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★ 7.7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Film
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★ 6.1 Justice League
2017 · Film
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★ 7.8 The Big Lebowski
1998 · Film
David Thewlis: movies and TV shows
Acting (115)
- 2026 Signal One
as Perry
- 2026
- 2025 Avatar: Fire and Ash
as Peylak
- 2025 The Thing with Feathers
as Crow (voice)
- 2025
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022 The Amazing Maurice
as Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
- 2022 Enola Holmes 2
as Grail
- 2022
- 2022
- 2021
- 2021 Rare Beasts
as Vic
- 2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Ares
- 2020 I'm Thinking of Ending Things
as Father
- 2020 Eternal Beauty
as Mike
- 2020 Guest of Honour
as Jim
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018 The Mercy
as Rodney Hallworth
- 2017 Justice League
as Ares
- 2017
- 2017 Wonder Woman
as Sir Patrick
- 2015 Anomalisa
as Michael Stone (voice)
- 2015 Regression
as Professor Kenneth Raines
- 2015 Macbeth
as Duncan
- 2015 An Inspector Calls
as Inspector Goole - The Inspector
- 2015 Legend
as Leslie Payne
- 2015 Queen & Country
as Sargeant Major Bradley
- 2014 The Theory of Everything
as Dennis Sciama
- 2014 Stonehearst Asylum
as Mickey Finn
- 2014
- 2014 Sunday Roast
as Dick Puck
- 2013 Separate We Come, Separate We Go
as Norman
- 2013 The Fifth Estate
as Nick Davies
- 2013 The Zero Theorem
as Joby
- 2013 RED 2
as The Frog
- 2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
- 2011 War Horse
as Lyons
- 2011 The Lady
as Michael Aris
- 2011 Anonymous
as William Cecil
- 2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Remus Lupin
- 2011 The Organ Grinder's Monkey
as Pablo (voice)
- 2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Remus Lupin
- 2010 London Boulevard
as Jordan
- 2010 Mr. Nice
as Jim McCann
- 2010 Athena
as Chuck
- 2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Remus Lupin
- 2009 Veronika Decides to Die
as Dr. Blake
- 2008 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
as Father
- 2007 The Inner Life of Martin Frost
as Martin Frost
- 2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Remus Lupin
- 2006 The Omen
as Keith Jennings
- 2006
- 2006 Basic Instinct 2
as Roy Washburn
- 2006 All the Invisible Children
as Jonathan (segment "Jonathan")
- 2005 The New World
as Wingfield
- 2005 Kingdom of Heaven
as Hospitaler
- 2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Remus Lupin
- 2003 Little Wolf's Book of Badness
as Mr. Twister (voice)
- 2003 Timeline
as Robert Doniger
- 2003 Cheeky
as Harry Sankey
- 2002 D.I.Y. Hard
as Man
- 2002
- 2002 Discovering Dinotopia
as Cyrus
- 2002 Dinotopia
as Cyrus Crabb
- 2002 Hamilton Mattress
as Hamilton Mattress (voice)
- 2001 Goodbye Charlie Bright
as Charlie's Dad
- 2000 Endgame
as Clov
- 2000 Gangster No. 1
as Freddie Mays
- 2000 The Miracle Maker
as Judas Iscariot (voice)
- 2000 Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Nesbit
- 1999 Love Story
as Dealer
- 1998 Divorcing Jack
as Dan Starkey
- 1998 The Big Lebowski
as Knox Harrington
- 1998 Besieged
as Jason Kinsky
- 1997 Seven Years in Tibet
as Peter Aufschnaiter
- 1997 American Perfekt
as Santini
- 1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau
as Douglas
- 1996 DragonHeart
as King Einon
- 1996 James and the Giant Peach
as Earthworm (voice)
- 1995 Restoration
as John Pearce
- 1995 Total Eclipse
as Paul Verlaine
- 1994
- 1994 Black Beauty
as Jerry Barker
- 1993 Naked
as Johnny
- 1993
- 1993 The Trial
as Franz
- 1993
- 1992 Damage
as Detective
- 1992 Black and Blue
as Crematorium Attendant
- 1992 Swords at Teatime
as Mike
- 1992 Afraid of the Dark
as Locksmith / Tom Miller
- 1991 Journey to Knock
as Terry
- 1991 Filipina Dreamgirls
as Tim Shanks
- 1991 Skulduggery
as Tony
- 1991
- 1991 Life Is Sweet
as Nicola's Lover
- 1991
- 1990
- 1989
- 1989 Resurrected
as Kevin Deakin
- 1989
- 1988 Vroom
as Ringe
- 1988
- 1987 Little Dorrit
as George Braddle
- 1987 The Short & Curlies
as Clive
- 1987 Road
as Joey
- 1987
- 1986
- 1986
- 1985 Radio Pictures
as JIM 'Grams'
- 1985
- 1985
- 1981
Behind the camera (3)
- 2014 Sunday Roast
Writer
- 2003 Cheeky
Director, Writer
- 1995 Hello, Hello, Hello
Director, Writer
Talk shows and appearances (10)
- 2021
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2011
- 2011
- 2004
- 2003
- 1997
- 1994