David Thewlis
David Wheeler (born 20 March 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 |
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Most Rating | 23.488 |
Birthday | 1963-03-20 |
Place of Birth | Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK |
Also Known As | 데이빗 듈리스, Дэвид Тьюлис, David Wheeler, 大卫·休里斯, |
2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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The Omen
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The Omen
2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7.693/18876
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Seven Years in Tibet
7.167/2736
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Kingdom of Heaven
6.954/4066
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2000
Gangster No. 1
6.4/202
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Basic Instinct 2
5.057/737
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James and the Giant Peach
6.557/1256
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James and the Giant Peach
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Damage
6.556/427
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1993
Naked
7.4/520
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2000
The Miracle Maker
5.9/40
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Goodbye Charlie Bright
6.2/22
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DragonHeart
6.537/1908
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
7.754/18540
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Timeline
5.694/1016
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Restoration
6.1/109
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Black Beauty
6.721/326
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
7.839/6912
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Total Eclipse
6.4/513
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1990
Life Is Sweet
6.977/151
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Afraid of the Dark
5.4/29
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Anonymous
6.4/704
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Divorcing Jack
6/24
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Besieged
6.7/58
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2010
Mr. Nice
6.09/144
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London Boulevard
5.909/704
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Endgame
6.8/6
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4.1/12
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
6.2/18
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The Trial
5.8/27
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War Horse
7.309/3296
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Resurrected
5.633/15
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The Lady
6.807/244
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Cheeky
6.4/8
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RED 2
6.5/3895
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Filipina Dreamgirls
8/2
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The Zero Theorem
6.101/1153
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The Fifth Estate
6.029/972
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2002
D.I.Y. Hard
8.7/3
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Road
6.8/13
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Vroom
6.3/5
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The New World
6.5/1101
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2011
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
4/2
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2014
Stonehearst Asylum
6.844/1361
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The Theory of Everything
7.854/10344
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The Big Lebowski
7.844/10842
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Macbeth
6.466/1406
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2015
Legend
7.046/3708
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The Short & Curlies
6.346/26
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Regression
5.579/1739
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2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
8.017/20924
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An Inspector Calls
7.434/213
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Journey to Knock
0/0
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American Perfekt
6.1/18
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The Mercy
5.942/269
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Little Dorrit
6.4/11
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2002
Hamilton Mattress
6.4/5
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Separate We Come, Separate We Go
6.5/1
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2011
How to Get a Head in Sculpture
8/1
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2015
Queen & Country
6/63
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2017
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
7.3/86
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2017
Justice League
6.088/12653
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Eternal Beauty
6.068/59
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
5.6/13
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Guest of Honour
5.8/18
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2017
Wonder Woman
7.228/19532
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2021
Rare Beasts
5.6/25
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1992
Black and Blue
0/0
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1991
Skulduggery
0/0
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Skulduggery
2025
Avatar 3
0/0
The third entry in the Avatar franchise.
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2010
Athena
0/0
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2015
Anomalisa
7.124/1642
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Anomalisa
2022
The Amazing Maurice
6.8/135
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2016
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
0/0
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's 2015 stop-motion animated drama Anomalisa.
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None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League
8.159/9697
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2021
Val
7.047/149
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2020
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
6.59/1856
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
1988
Deep Red Instant Love
0/0
Budding romance and political subversion create a headache for the manager of Superstore in Rik Lander’s colourful satire on capitalism.
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Deep Red Instant Love
2022
Enola Holmes 2
7.4/1304
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Enola Holmes 2
2005
All the Invisible Children
7.085/65
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
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All the Invisible Children
1997
The Making of 'DragonHeart'
7/1
This documentary was first released on the laserdisc for DragonHeart, and was then re-released on both the Collector's Edition and Franchise Collectio...
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Littlemouth
0/0
It tells the story of a computer scientist who is recruited by a tech billionaire to work on a project that could change humanity's place in the unive...
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Littlemouth
2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
7.583/12
A 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes journey of making them.
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The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
7.6/68
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Swords at Teatime
0/0
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1999
Love Story
0/0
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2014
Sunday Roast
0/0
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2003
Little Wolf's Book of Badness
7.3/3
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