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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK, 1963-03-20

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1987	Road	Joey	73
2	1989	Resurrected	Kevin Deakin	56
3	1990	Life Is Sweet	Nicola's Lover	70
4	1991	Filipina Dreamgirls	Tim Shanks	80
5	1991	Afraid of the Dark	Locksmith / Tom Miller	53
6	1992	Damage	Detective	66
7	1993	The Trial	Franz	58
8	1993	Naked	Johnny	73
9	1994	Black Beauty	Jerry Barker	67
10	1995	Total Eclipse	Paul Verlaine	64
11	1995	Restoration	John Pearce	60
12	1996	James and the Giant Peach	Earthworm (voice)	66
13	1996	DragonHeart	King Einon	65
14	1996	The Island of Dr. Moreau	Douglas	49
15	1997	The Making of 'DragonHeart'	Self	65
16	1997	Seven Years in Tibet	Peter Aufschnaiter	72
17	1998	Besieged	Jason Kinsky	67
18	1998	Divorcing Jack	Dan Starkey	61
19	2000	Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?	Nesbit	61
20	2000	The Miracle Maker	Judas Iscariot (voice)	59
21	2000	Gangster No. 1	Freddie Mays	64
22	2000	Endgame	Clov	68
23	2001	Goodbye Charlie Bright	Charlie's Dad	62
24	2002	D.I.Y. Hard	Man	87
25	2003	Cheeky	Harry Sankey	64
26	2003	Timeline	Robert Doniger	57
27	2004	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Remus Lupin	80
28	2005	Kingdom of Heaven	Hospitaler	70
29	2005	All the Invisible Children	Jonathan (segment "Jonathan")	71
30	2006	Basic Instinct 2	Roy Washburn	50
31	2006	The Omen	Keith Jennings	56
32	2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	Remus Lupin	77
33	2007	The Inner Life of Martin Frost	Martin Frost	44
34	2008	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	Father	78
35	2009	Veronika Decides to Die	Dr. Blake	59
36	2009	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	Remus Lupin	77
37	2010	Mr. Nice	Jim McCann	61
38	2010	London Boulevard	Jordan	59
39	2010	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1	Remus Lupin	77
40	2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2	Remus Lupin	81
41	2011	Anonymous	William Cecil	64
42	2011	The Lady	Michael Aris	68
43	2011	War Horse	Lyons	73
44	2013	RED 2	The Frog	65
45	2013	The Zero Theorem	Joby	61
46	2013	The Fifth Estate	Nick Davies	60
47	2022	Enola Holmes 2	Grail	74
48		Littlemouth		0
49	1987	The Short & Curlies	Clive	63
50	1987	Little Dorrit	George Braddle	65
51	1988	Deep Red Instant Love		0
52	1988	Vroom	Ringe	61
53	1991	Skulduggery	Tony	0
54	1991	Journey to Knock	Terry	0
55	1992	Swords at Teatime	Mike	0
56	1992	Black and Blue	Crematorium Attendant	0
57	1994	Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool	Self	0
58	1997	American Perfekt	Santini	63
59	1998	The Big Lebowski	Knox Harrington	78
60	1999	Love Story	Dealer	0
61	2002	Hamilton Mattress	Hamilton Mattress (voice)	63
62	2002	Dinotopia	Cyrus Crabb	65
63	2002	Discovering Dinotopia	Cyrus	63
64	2003	Little Wolf's Book of Badness	Mr. Twister (voice)	75
65	2004	The Magic Touch of Harry Potter	Self	76
66	2005	The New World	Wingfield	65
67	2010	Athena	Chuck	0
68	2011	How to Get a Head in Sculpture	Self	80
69	2011	The Organ Grinder's Monkey	Pablo (voice)	40
70	2012	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	(archive footage)	76
71	2013	Separate We Come, Separate We Go	Norman	65
72	2014	Sunday Roast	Dick Puck	0
73	2014	Queen & Country	Sargeant Major Bradley	60
74	2014	Stonehearst Asylum	Mickey Finn	69
75	2014	The Theory of Everything	Dennis Sciama	78
76	2015	Legend	Leslie Payne	71
77	2015	An Inspector Calls	Inspector Goole - The Inspector	74
78	2015	Macbeth	Duncan	65
79	2015	Regression	Professor Kenneth Raines	56
80	2015	Anomalisa	Michael Stone (voice)	71
81	2016	None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa	Self	0
82	2017	Wonder Woman	Sir Patrick / Ares	72
83	2017	Harry Potter: A History Of Magic	Himself	73
84	2017	Justice League	Ares	61
85	2018	The Mercy	Rodney Hallworth	59
86	2018	Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal	Self (archive footage)	57
87	2020	Guest of Honour	Jim	53
88	2020	Eternal Beauty	Mike	61
89	2020	I'm Thinking of Ending Things	Father	66
90	2021	Zack Snyder's Justice League	Ares	81
91	2021	Rare Beasts	Vic	54
92	2021	Val	Self (archive footage)	72
93	2022	The Amazing Maurice	Boss Man / Rat King (voice)	68
94	2025	The Thing with Feathers	Crow (voice)	0
95	2025	Avatar: Fire and Ash	Peylak	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	Only Fools and Horses		80
2	1986	The Singing Detective	Second Soldier	76
3	1987	Valentine Park	Max	0
4	1989	A Bit of a Do		64
5	1990	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	Doctor	68
6	1991	Prime Suspect	James Jackson	77
7	1993	Frank Stubbs Promotes	Mike Bence	60
8	1994	Dandelion Dead	Oswald Martin	80
9	2002	Dinotopia	Cyrus Crabb	64
10	2006	The Street	Joe Jennerson / Harry Jennerson	77
11	2009	Creating the World of Harry Potter	Self - 'Remus Lupin'	100
12	2014	Fargo	V.M. Vargas	83
13	2017	Big Mouth	Shame Wizard (voice)	77
14	2017	Big Mouth		77
15	2019	The Feed	Lawrence Hatfield	69
16	2020	Barkskins	Claude Trepagny	64
17	2021	Landscapers	Christopher Edwards	68
18	2022	Human Resources	Memory Bank Manager (voice)	65
19	2022	Human Resources	Lionel St. Swithens (voice)	65
20	2022	The Sandman	John Dee	79
21	2023	The Artful Dodger	Norbert Fagin	81
22	2024	KAOS	Hades	72
23	2025	Sherlock & Daughter	Sherlock Holmes	70

David Thewlis

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