David Thewlis
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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.
Known For
Big Mouth
Human Resources
Prime Suspect
Only Fools and Horses
Avatar: The Way of Water
Fargo
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
The Big Lebowski
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Justice League
The Miracle Maker
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Sandman
The Street
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Val
James and the Giant Peach
RED 2
Road
The Trial
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Theory of Everything
KAOS
Wonder Woman
Timeline
War Horse
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The Omen
The Fifth Estate
Basic Instinct 2
Kingdom of Heaven
Legend
Enola Holmes 2
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
DragonHeart
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Stonehearst Asylum
The Amazing Maurice
Regression
Landscapers
The Zero Theorem
Journey to Knock
Endgame
The Artful Dodger
An Inspector Calls
Naked
The Feed
Sherlock & Daughter
Anomalisa
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