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