
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

The Sandman

Prime Suspect

Only Fools and Horses

Creating the World of Harry Potter

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

Avatar: The Way of Water

Fargo

The Big Lebowski

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Justice League

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Avatar: Fire and Ash

James and the Giant Peach

RED 2

Val

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

KAOS

Wonder Woman

The Theory of Everything

Human Resources

War Horse

Timeline

Kingdom of Heaven

Legend

Basic Instinct 2

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

The Omen

The Fifth Estate

DragonHeart

Enola Holmes 2

The Amazing Maurice

Stonehearst Asylum

Regression

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Zero Theorem

The Artful Dodger

Landscapers

Anomalisa

The Feed

Naked

Sherlock & Daughter
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