David Thewlis
Actor
Born March 20, 1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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).
Filmography
Signal One
Perry
Dirty Business
Ash Smith
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Peylak
The Thing with Feathers
Crow (voice)
Sherlock & Daughter
Sherlock Holmes
KAOS
Hades
The Artful Dodger
Norbert Fagin
The Amazing Maurice
Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
Enola Holmes 2
Grail
The Sandman
John Dee
Human Resources
Memory Bank Manager (voice)
Landscapers
Christopher Edwards
Rare Beasts
Vic
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Ares
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Father
Eternal Beauty
Mike
Guest of Honour
Jim
Barkskins
Claude Trepagny
The Feed
Lawrence Hatfield
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Self (archive footage)
The Mercy
Rodney Hallworth
Justice League
Ares
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Himself
Big Mouth
Shame Wizard (voice)
Wonder Woman
Sir Patrick / Ares
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
Self
Anomalisa
Michael Stone (voice)
Regression
Professor Kenneth Raines
Macbeth
Duncan
An Inspector Calls
Inspector Goole - The Inspector
Legend
Leslie Payne
Queen & Country
Sargeant Major Bradley
The Theory of Everything
Dennis Sciama
Stonehearst Asylum
Mickey Finn
Fargo
V.M. Vargas
Separate We Come, Separate We Go
Norman
The Fifth Estate
Nick Davies
The Zero Theorem
Joby
RED 2
The Frog
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
War Horse
Lyons
The Lady
Michael Aris
Anonymous
William Cecil
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Remus Lupin
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
Pablo (voice)
How to Get a Head in Sculpture
Self
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Remus Lupin
London Boulevard
Jordan
Mr. Nice
Jim McCann
Athena
Chuck
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Remus Lupin
Veronika Decides to Die
Dr. Blake
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Father
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
Martin Frost
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Remus Lupin
The Omen
Keith Jennings
The Street
Joe Jennerson / Harry Jennerson
Basic Instinct 2
Roy Washburn
All the Invisible Children
Jonathan (segment "Jonathan")
The New World
Wingfield
Kingdom of Heaven
Hospitaler
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Remus Lupin
Little Wolf's Book of Badness
Mr. Twister (voice)
Timeline
Robert Doniger
Cheeky
Harry Sankey
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Self - Clov (archive footage)
D.I.Y. Hard
Man
Dinotopia
Cyrus Crabb
Discovering Dinotopia
Cyrus
Dinotopia
Cyrus Crabb
Hamilton Mattress
Hamilton Mattress (voice)
Goodbye Charlie Bright
Charlie's Dad
Endgame
Clov
Gangster No. 1
Freddie Mays
The Miracle Maker
Judas Iscariot (voice)
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Nesbit
Love Story
Dealer
Divorcing Jack
Dan Starkey
The Big Lebowski
Knox Harrington
Besieged
Jason Kinsky
Seven Years in Tibet
Peter Aufschnaiter
American Perfekt
Santini
The Making of 'DragonHeart'
Self
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Douglas
DragonHeart
King Einon
James and the Giant Peach
Earthworm (voice)
Restoration
John Pearce
Total Eclipse
Paul Verlaine
Hello, Hello, Hello
Dandelion Dead
Oswald Martin
Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool
Self
Black Beauty
Jerry Barker
Naked
Johnny
Frank Stubbs Promotes
Mike Bence
The Trial
Franz
Damage
Detective
Swords at Teatime
Mike
Afraid of the Dark
Locksmith / Tom Miller
Filipina Dreamgirls
Tim Shanks
Prime Suspect
James Jackson
Life Is Sweet
Nicola's Lover
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Doctor
Screen One
Tim Shanks
Resurrected
Kevin Deakin
A Bit of a Do
Vroom
Ringe
Deep Red Instant Love
Little Dorrit
George Braddle
The Short & Curlies
Clive
Road
Joey
Valentine Park
Max
The Singing Detective
Soldier
ScreenPlay
Joey
Radio Pictures
JIM 'Grams'
Screen Two
Franz
Only Fools and Horses
Stew