David Thewlis
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1963-03-20
Place of Birth
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
Also Known For
Seven Years in Tibet
Sep 12, 1997
Kingdom of Heaven
May 03, 2005
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
May 31, 2004
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Jul 08, 2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Jul 15, 2009
The Omen
Jun 06, 2006
James and the Giant Peach
Apr 12, 1996
Basic Instinct 2
Mar 29, 2006
Gangster No. 1
Jun 09, 2000
Enola Holmes 2
Nov 30, 2022
Damage
Dec 02, 1992
The Miracle Maker
Mar 31, 2000
Naked
Aug 06, 1993
Goodbye Charlie Bright
May 11, 2001
DragonHeart
May 31, 1996
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Nov 17, 2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Jul 12, 2011
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Aug 23, 1996
Timeline
Nov 26, 2003
Veronika Decides to Die
May 16, 2009
Restoration
Dec 29, 1995
Black Beauty
Jul 29, 1994
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
May 07, 2008
Total Eclipse
Nov 03, 1995
Life Is Sweet
Nov 15, 1990
Afraid of the Dark
Oct 10, 1991
Anonymous
Oct 21, 2011
Divorcing Jack
Oct 01, 1998
Besieged
Feb 05, 1998
All the Invisible Children
Sep 01, 2005
Mr. Nice
Oct 07, 2010
Endgame
Sep 10, 2000
London Boulevard
Nov 10, 2010
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
Oct 11, 2007
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Mar 10, 2000
The Trial
Jun 18, 1993
The Making of 'DragonHeart'
Jan 14, 1997
War Horse
Dec 25, 2011
Resurrected
Mar 12, 1989
The Lady
Nov 30, 2011
Cheeky
Sep 08, 2003
RED 2
Jul 18, 2013
The Zero Theorem
Sep 20, 2013
Filipina Dreamgirls
Sep 15, 1991
Littlemouth
The Fifth Estate
Oct 11, 2013
D.I.Y. Hard
Sep 30, 2002
Road
Oct 07, 1987
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Jun 11, 2004
Vroom
Nov 11, 1988
The New World
Dec 25, 2005
Queen & Country
Sep 14, 2014
The Theory of Everything
Nov 07, 2014
Macbeth
Sep 22, 2015
Regression
Oct 01, 2015
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
Jun 06, 2011
Stonehearst Asylum
Oct 23, 2014
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Feb 04, 2012
Legend
Sep 09, 2015
The Big Lebowski
Mar 06, 1998
The Short & Curlies
Dec 01, 1987
Swords at Teatime
Apr 14, 1992
An Inspector Calls
Sep 13, 2015
Sunday Roast
Jan 01, 2014
Little Wolf's Book of Badness
Dec 08, 2003
Love Story
Jan 01, 1999
Wonder Woman
May 30, 2017
Journey to Knock
Sep 17, 1991
American Perfekt
Jun 11, 1997
The Mercy
Feb 09, 2018
Little Dorrit
Dec 11, 1987
Hamilton Mattress
Jan 01, 2002
Dinotopia
Feb 12, 2002
Separate We Come, Separate We Go
Oct 25, 2013
How to Get a Head in Sculpture
Feb 23, 2011
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Oct 28, 2017
Justice League
Nov 15, 2017
Eternal Beauty
Aug 21, 2020
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Aug 21, 2018
Guest of Honour
Jul 09, 2020
Rare Beasts
May 21, 2021
Skulduggery
Jun 29, 1991
Black and Blue
Sep 27, 1992
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Dec 17, 2025
Athena
Apr 21, 2010
Anomalisa
Dec 30, 2015
The Amazing Maurice
Dec 16, 2022
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
Jun 07, 2016
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Mar 18, 2021
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Aug 28, 2020
Deep Red Instant Love
Jan 01, 1988
Discovering Dinotopia
May 07, 2002
The Thing with Feathers
Oct 17, 2025
Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool
Aug 29, 1994
Only Fools and Horses
Sep 08, 1981
Prime Suspect
Apr 07, 1991
Landscapers
Dec 06, 2021
A Bit of a Do
Jan 13, 1989
Valentine Park
Jun 19, 1987
Dandelion Dead
Oct 30, 1994
Human Resources
Mar 18, 2022
Human Resources
Mar 18, 2022
The Street
Apr 13, 2006
Fargo
Apr 15, 2014
Frank Stubbs Promotes
Jul 12, 1993
Dinotopia
May 12, 2002
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jan 10, 1990
The Sandman
Aug 05, 2022
Sherlock & Daughter
Apr 16, 2025
The Singing Detective
Nov 16, 1986
The Artful Dodger
Nov 29, 2023
The Feed
Sep 16, 2019
Big Mouth
Sep 29, 2017
Barkskins
May 25, 2020
KAOS
Aug 29, 2024
Creating the World of Harry Potter
Nov 17, 2009