Cast
David Thewlis
Acting
Cast
David Thewlis
Known for
Acting
Born
1963-03-20
From
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Also known as David Wheeler
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.
★7.6
MOVIE2025
Avatar: Fire and Ash
as Peylak
★6.6
MOVIE1992
Damage
as Detective
★7.7
MOVIE2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Remus Lupin
★8.0
MOVIE2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Remus Lupin
★8.1
MOVIE2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Remus Lupin
★7.7
MOVIE2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Remus Lupin
★7.7
MOVIE2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Remus Lupin
★7.1
MOVIE2005
Kingdom of Heaven
as Hospitaler
★8.1
MOVIE2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Ares
★7.4
MOVIE2022
Enola Holmes 2
as Grail
★6.1
MOVIE2017
Justice League
as Ares
★6.6
MOVIE2026
Signal One
as Perry
★7.2
MOVIE2017
Wonder Woman
as Sir Patrick / Ares
★7.8
MOVIE1998
The Big Lebowski
as Knox Harrington
★7.8
MOVIE2008
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
as Father
★7.3
MOVIE2011
War Horse
as Lyons
★7.1
MOVIE2015
Legend
as Leslie Payne
★6.8
MOVIE2014
Stonehearst Asylum
as Mickey Finn
★7.8
MOVIE2014
The Theory of Everything
as Dennis Sciama
★6.5
MOVIE2013
RED 2
as The Frog
★6.6
MOVIE1996
DragonHeart
as King Einon
★6.5
MOVIE2020
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
as Father
★5.0
MOVIE2006
Basic Instinct 2
as Roy Washburn
★6.6
MOVIE1996
James and the Giant Peach
as Earthworm (voice)
★5.7
MOVIE2003
Timeline
as Robert Doniger
★7.2
MOVIE1997
Seven Years in Tibet
as Peter Aufschnaiter
★6.0
MOVIE2013
The Fifth Estate
as Nick Davies
★6.5
MOVIE2005
The New World
as Wingfield
★6.1
MOVIE2013
The Zero Theorem
as Joby
★6.6
MOVIE2022
The Amazing Maurice
as Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
★5.6
MOVIE2015
Regression
as Professor Kenneth Raines
★4.9
MOVIE1996
The Island of Dr. Moreau
as Douglas
★5.6
MOVIE2006
The Omen
as Keith Jennings
★7.3
MOVIE1993
Naked
as Johnny
★6.4
MOVIE2015
Macbeth
as Duncan
★6.4
MOVIE1995
Total Eclipse
as Paul Verlaine
★7.6
MOVIE2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
★6.4
MOVIE2000
Gangster No. 1
as Freddie Mays
★6.8
MOVIE2011
The Lady
as Michael Aris
★6.4
MOVIE2011
Anonymous
as William Cecil
★6.7
MOVIE1994
Black Beauty
as Jerry Barker
★5.9
MOVIE2018
The Mercy
as Rodney Hallworth
★7.1
MOVIE2015
Anomalisa
as Michael Stone (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE2025
The Thing with Feathers
as Crow (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE2003
Cheeky
as Harry Sankey
★5.9
MOVIE2010
London Boulevard
as Jordan
★7.4
MOVIE2015
An Inspector Calls
as Inspector Goole - The Inspector
★6.4
MOVIE2002
Discovering Dinotopia
as Cyrus
★6.1
MOVIE2000
The Miracle Maker
as Judas Iscariot (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1991
Life Is Sweet
as Nicola's Lover
★5.9
MOVIE2009
Veronika Decides to Die
as Dr. Blake
★9.0
MOVIE1992
Swords at Teatime
as Mike
★6.1
MOVIE1995
Restoration
as John Pearce
★6.2
MOVIE2020
Eternal Beauty
as Mike
★10.0
MOVIE2003
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
as Self - Clov (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE2006
All the Invisible Children
as Jonathan (segment "Jonathan")
★6.5
MOVIE1988
Vroom
as Ringe
★8.2
MOVIE2002
Dinotopia
as Cyrus Crabb
★6.4
MOVIE1987
The Short & Curlies
as Clive
★6.1
MOVIE2015
Queen & Country
as Sargeant Major Bradley
★6.5
MOVIE1997
American Perfekt
as Santini
★5.4
MOVIE2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1993
The Trial
as Franz
MOVIE1991
Skulduggery
as Tony
★5.6
MOVIE1991
Afraid of the Dark
as Locksmith / Tom Miller
★6.4
MOVIE1989
Resurrected
as Kevin Deakin
★6.1
MOVIE2010
Mr. Nice
as Jim McCann
MOVIE1988
Deep Red Instant Love
★7.3
MOVIE2017
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
as Himself
★9.0
MOVIE2002
D.I.Y. Hard
as Man
★6.2
MOVIE2000
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Nesbit
★7.3
MOVIE1997
The Making of 'DragonHeart'
as Self
★6.8
MOVIE2002
Hamilton Mattress
as Hamilton Mattress (voice)
★4.5
MOVIE2007
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
as Martin Frost
★7.3
MOVIE1991
Filipina Dreamgirls
as Tim Shanks
MOVIE1985
Radio Pictures
as JIM 'Grams'
★5.5
MOVIE2021
Rare Beasts
as Vic
★6.4
MOVIE1987
Little Dorrit
as George Braddle
MOVIE2010
Athena
as Chuck
★5.4
MOVIE2020
Guest of Honour
as Jim
★5.9
MOVIE2001
Goodbye Charlie Bright
as Charlie's Dad
★6.7
MOVIE1998
Besieged
as Jason Kinsky
★9.0
MOVIE1992
Black and Blue
as Crematorium Attendant
★10.0
MOVIE1991
Journey to Knock
as Terry
★7.7
MOVIE2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
MOVIE2014
Sunday Roast
as Dick Puck
★5.0
MOVIE2011
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
as Pablo (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE1998
Divorcing Jack
as Dan Starkey
★7.2
MOVIE1987
Road
as Joey
★8.0
MOVIE2003
Little Wolf's Book of Badness
as Mr. Twister (voice)
MOVIE2016
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1999
Love Story
as Dealer
★6.5
MOVIE2013
Separate We Come, Separate We Go
as Norman
★7.3
MOVIE2000
Endgame
as Clov
MOVIE1994
Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2011
How to Get a Head in Sculpture
as Self