David Wheeler (born 20 March 1963), better known as David Thewlis, is an English actor, director, screenwriter, and author.
Thewlis rose to prominence when he starred in the film Naked (1993), for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. His most commercially successful roles have been Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter franchise (2004–2011) and Sir Patrick Morgan / Ares in Wonder Woman (2017). Other film roles include Total Eclipse (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Dragonheart (1996), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Anomalisa (2015), and I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020). He will appear in Enola Holmes 2 (2022) and Avatar 3 (2024).
Thewlis’ most notable television roles are Cyrus Crabb in the miniseries Dinotopia (2002), V. M. Varga in the third series of Fargo (2017), the voice of the Shame Wizard in the animated sitcom Big Mouth (2017–present), and Christopher Edwards in the miniseries Landscapers (2021). His performance in Fargo earned him nominations for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Critics’ Choice Award.
David Thewlis Biography / Wiki
| Name | David Thewlis |
| Also Know | ë°ì´ë¹— 듈리스, ДÑвид ТьюлиÑ, David Wheeler, 大å«Â·ä¼‘里斯 |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1963-03-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 59 |
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David Thewlis Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Naked | Johnny | 1993-09-14 | An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey…. |
| Divorcing Jack | Dan Starkey | 1998-10-01 | He’s Irish, he’s ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country’s first election as a… |
| The Inner Life of Martin Frost | Martin Frost | 2007-10-11 | A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls in love with her, thinking he has found his muse, but… |
| Cheeky | Harry Sankey | 2003-09-08 | Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a … |
| D.I.Y. Hard | Man | 2002-09-30 | A hostage situation takes an unusual turn…. |
| An Inspector Calls | Inspector Goole – The Inspector | 2015-09-13 | Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide…. |
| Hamilton Mattress | Hamilton Mattress (voice) | 2002-01-01 | Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city…. |
| How to Get a Head in Sculpture | Self | 2011-02-23 | From the heads of Roman Emperors to the ‘blood head’ of contemporary British artist Marc Quinn, the greatest figures in world sculpture have continual… |
| Guest of Honour | Jim | 2020-07-09 | Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she’s been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting ou… |
| Athena | Chuck | 2010-04-21 | Chuck, a loner who had better days, runs a Halliday store in the middle of Californian desert. Customers are rare and he has only one regular, old Bil… |
| Anomalisa | Michael Stone (voice) | 2015-12-30 | An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence…. |
| Deep Red Instant Love | 1988-01-01 | … | |
| DragonHeart | King Einon | 1996-05-31 | In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dra… |
| Veronika Decides to Die | Dr. Blake | 2009-05-16 | After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializ… |
| Total Eclipse | Paul Verlaine | 1995-11-03 | Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lif… |
| Besieged | Jason Kinsky | 1998-02-05 | When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric Engli… |
| Endgame | Clov | 2000-09-10 | Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins…. |
| War Horse | Lyons | 2011-12-25 | Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World … |
| The Lady | Michael Aris | 2011-11-30 | The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma’s democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris…. |
| The Zero Theorem | Joby | 2013-09-20 | A computer hacker’s goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they s… |
| Journey to Knock | Terry | 1991-09-17 | Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo…. |
| Separate We Come, Separate We Go | Norman | 2013-10-25 | Separate We Come, Separate We Go is the story of a 10-year-old girl, Thea who escapes her bleak domestic life to find sanctuary in the surreal desert … |
| Eternal Beauty | Mike | 2020-08-21 | When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences…. |
| Prime Suspect 3: The Keeper of Souls | James Jackson | 1993-12-19 | Assigned to a Vice squad, Detective Jane Tennison investigates a child murder and discovers a sinister link to the police…. |
| Seven Years in Tibet | Peter Aufschnaiter | 1997-09-12 | Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, th… |
| Gangster No. 1 | Freddie Mays | 2000-06-09 | An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk a… |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | Edward Douglas | 1996-08-23 | A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to… |
| Black Beauty | Jerry Barker | 1994-07-29 | The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life…. |
| Anonymous | William Cecil | 2011-10-21 | Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fac… |
| Mr. Nice | Jim McCann | 2010-10-07 | Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as le… |
| London Boulevard | Jordan | 2010-11-10 | A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster…. |
| Resurrected | Kevin Deakin | 1989-03-12 | A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia…. |
| Vroom | Ringe | 1988-11-11 | Two young men and a sultry divorcee flee their drab hometown existence, taking to the road in a bubblegum pink chevrolet…. |
| The Organ Grinder’s Monkey | Pablo (voice) | 2011-06-06 | A cockroach with artistic aspirations follows an angst-ridden and talentless artist from pub to studio in pursuit of his dream, and comes to a sticky … |
| Stonehearst Asylum | Mickey Finn | 2014-10-23 | A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea … |
| The Short & Curlies | Clive | 1988-09-29 | A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor…… |
| Regression | Professor Kenneth Raines | 2015-10-01 | Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John u… |
| American Perfekt | Santini | 1997-06-11 | Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be m… |
| The Mercy | Rodney Hallworth | 2018-02-09 | In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in t… |
| Queen & Country | Sargeant Major Bradley | 2015-01-07 | An Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War…. |
| Harry Potter: A History Of Magic | Himself | 2017-10-28 | A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story … |
| Skulduggery | Tony | 1991-06-29 | Four lads decide to meet up and do a robbery planned by Sweeny, an angry, agressive but small young man who is like a time bomb waiting to go off. The… |
| None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa | Self | 2016-06-07 | A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s 2015 stop-motion animated drama Anomalisa…. |
| The Omen | Keith Jennings | 2006-06-06 | A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976…. |
| Basic Instinct 2 | Roy Washburn | 2006-03-29 | Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, l… |
| Restoration | John Pearce | 1995-12-29 | An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel j… |
| The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | Ralf Hoess | 2008-05-07 | When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of t… |
| Filipina Dreamgirls | Tim Shanks | 1991-09-15 | Several men from Wales travel to the Philippines on an arranged tour to meet Filipina women for romance and possible marriage. None of the women are t… |
| The Fifth Estate | Nick Davies | 2013-10-11 | A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the … |
| Legend | Leslie Payne | 2015-09-09 | Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using … |
| The Amazing Maurice | Boss Man (voice) | 2022-12-15 | Every town on Discworld knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice – a street wise tomcat – leads a band of educated ratty friends (and a st… |
| I’m Thinking of Ending Things | Father | 2020-08-28 | 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…. |
| Kingdom of Heaven | Hospitaler | 2005-05-03 | After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades…. |
| Timeline | Robert Doniger | 2003-11-26 | A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century F… |
| Rare Beasts | Vic | 2021-05-21 | Mandy is a mother, a writer, a nihilist. Mandy is a modern woman in a crisis. Raising a son in the midst of a female revolution, mining the pain of he… |
| Enola Holmes 2 | 2022-11-04 | Now a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl, as the sparks of a dangerous… | |
| Life Is Sweet | Nicola’s Lover | 1990-11-15 | Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary schoo… |
| The Theory of Everything | Dennis Sciama | 2014-11-26 | The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who fa… |
| Wonder Woman | Sir Patrick / Ares | 2017-05-30 | An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict…. |
| The Trial | Franz | 1993-06-18 | Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and d… |
| The New World | Wingfield | 2005-12-25 | A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century…. |
| Macbeth | Duncan | 2015-08-16 | Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power… |
| Goodbye Charlie Bright | Charlie’s Dad | 2001-05-11 | Following Charlie Bright and his friends over one hot summer on the South London housing estate where they live. With Tommy about to join the army and… |
| Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | Nesbit | 2000-03-10 | It’s 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can’t decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker…. |
| RED 2 | The Frog | 2013-07-18 | Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device…. |
| Val | Self (archive footage) | 2021-07-23 | For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film… |
| James and the Giant Peach | Earthworm (voice) | 1996-04-12 | When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strang… |
| Afraid of the Dark | Locksmith / Tom Miller | 1991-10-10 | A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions…. |
| Road | Joey | 1987-10-07 | A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world. … |
| The Big Lebowski | Knox Harrington | 1998-03-06 | Jeffrey ‘The Dude’ Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelc… |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Remus Lupin | 2009-07-07 | As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie wi… |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Remus Lupin | 2004-05-31 | Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts… |
| Damage | Detective | 1992-12-02 | The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son’s lover…. |
| Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | (archive footage) | 2018-08-21 | Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. Learn from exclusive interviews with those who knew… |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Remus Lupin | 2007-06-28 | Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Le… |
| The Miracle Maker | Judas Iscariot | 2000-03-31 | A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spr… |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Remus Lupin | 2011-07-07 | Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wiza… |
| All the Invisible Children | Jonathan | 2005-09-01 | Seven short films – each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist…. |
| Justice League | Ares | 2017-11-15 | Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisti… |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Remus Lupin | 2010-10-17 | Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort’s bid for … |
| Avatar 3 | Peylak | 2024-12-18 | … |
| Little Dorrit | George Braddle | 1987-12-11 | A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor’s prison. There he meets a young sea… |
| Black and Blue | Crematorium Attendant | 1992-09-27 | When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the w… |
| Zack Snyder’s Justice League | Ares | 2021-03-18 | Determined to ensure Superman’s ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahu… |
David Thewlis Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Cheeky | Director | 2003-09-08 | Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a … |
| Hello, Hello, Hello | Director | 1995-01-01 | … |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Cheeky | Writer | 2003-09-08 | Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a … |
| Hello, Hello, Hello | Writer | 1995-01-01 | … |
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