
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 |
