David Thewlis
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.
Filmography (48)
Signal One
Avatar: Fire and Ash
The Thing with Feathers
Enola Holmes 2
The Amazing Maurice
Zack Snyder's Justice League
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Eternal Beauty
Wonder Woman
Justice League
Regression
Legend
Anomalisa
Macbeth
An Inspector Calls
The Theory of Everything
Stonehearst Asylum
RED 2
The Fifth Estate
The Zero Theorem
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
War Horse
Anonymous
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
London Boulevard
Mr. Nice
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
Basic Instinct 2
The Omen
Kingdom of Heaven
The New World
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Timeline
Gangster No. 1
The Big Lebowski
Seven Years in Tibet
The Island of Dr. Moreau
DragonHeart
James and the Giant Peach
Total Eclipse
Restoration
Black Beauty
Naked
Damage
