David Thewlis
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.
Acting (89 movies)
Seven Years in Tibet
1997
Kingdom of Heaven
2005
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
The Omen
2006
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Basic Instinct 2
2006
Gangster No. 1
2000
Enola Holmes 2
2022
Damage
1992
The Miracle Maker
2000
Naked
1993
Goodbye Charlie Bright
2001
DragonHeart
1996
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
The Island of Dr. Moreau
1996
Timeline
2003
Veronika Decides to Die
2009
Restoration
1995
Black Beauty
1994
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008
Total Eclipse
1995
Life Is Sweet
1990
Afraid of the Dark
1991
Anonymous
2011
Divorcing Jack
1998
Besieged
1998
All the Invisible Children
2005
Mr. Nice
2010
Endgame
2000
London Boulevard
2010
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
2007
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000
The Trial
1993
The Making of 'DragonHeart'
1997
War Horse
2011
Resurrected
1989
The Lady
2011
Cheeky
2003
RED 2
2013
The Zero Theorem
2013
Filipina Dreamgirls
1991
The Fifth Estate
2013
D.I.Y. Hard
2002
Road
1987
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
Vroom
1988
The New World
2005
Queen & Country
2014
The Theory of Everything
2014
Macbeth
2015
Regression
2015
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
2011
Stonehearst Asylum
2014
Legend
2015
The Big Lebowski
1998
The Short & Curlies
1987
Swords at Teatime
1992
An Inspector Calls
2015
Little Wolf's Book of Badness
2003
Love Story
1999
Wonder Woman
2017
American Perfekt
1997
The Mercy
2018
Little Dorrit
1987
Hamilton Mattress
2002
Dinotopia
2002
Separate We Come, Separate We Go
2013
How to Get a Head in Sculpture
2011
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
Justice League
2017
Eternal Beauty
2020
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
Guest of Honour
2020
Rare Beasts
2021
Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025
Athena
2010
Anomalisa
2015
The Amazing Maurice
2022
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
2016
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020
Deep Red Instant Love
1988
Discovering Dinotopia
2002
The Thing with Feathers
2025
Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool
1994
Radio Pictures
1985
Directing (2 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Hello, Hello, Hello | 1995 | Writer |
| Cheeky | 2003 | Writer |
| Sunday Roast | 2014 | Writer |