David Thewlis
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1963-03-20 (62 years old)
Place of Birth
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
David Thewlis
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
Acting
(2025)
Avatar: Fire and Ash
as Peylak
(2025)
The Thing with Feathers
as Crow (voice)
(2022)
Enola Holmes 2
as Grail
(2022)
The Amazing Maurice
as Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
(2021)
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Ares
(2021)
Val
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
Rare Beasts
as Vic
(2020)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
as Father
(2020)
Eternal Beauty
as Mike
(2020)
Guest of Honour
as Jim
(2018)
The Mercy
as Rodney Hallworth
(2018)
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
Justice League
as Ares
(2017)
Wonder Woman
as Sir Patrick / Ares
(2017)
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
as Himself
(2016)
(2015)
Legend
as Leslie Payne
(2015)
Macbeth
as Duncan
(2015)
Anomalisa
as Michael Stone (voice)
(2015)
Regression
as Professor Kenneth Raines
(2015)
An Inspector Calls
as Inspector Goole - The Inspector
(2014)
The Theory of Everything
as Dennis Sciama
(2014)
Stonehearst Asylum
as Mickey Finn
(2014)
Queen & Country
as Sargeant Major Bradley
(2014)
Sunday Roast
as Dick Puck
(2013)
RED 2
as The Frog
(2013)
The Zero Theorem
as Joby
(2013)
The Fifth Estate
as Nick Davies
(2013)
Separate We Come, Separate We Go
as Norman
(2012)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
(2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Remus Lupin
(2011)
War Horse
as Lyons
(2011)
Anonymous
as William Cecil
(2011)
The Lady
as Michael Aris
(2011)
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
as Pablo (voice)
(2011)
(2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Remus Lupin
(2010)
London Boulevard
as Jordan
(2010)
Mr. Nice
as Jim McCann
(2010)
Athena
as Chuck
(2009)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Remus Lupin
(2009)
Veronika Decides to Die
as Dr. Blake
(2008)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
as Father
(2007)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Remus Lupin
(2007)
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
as Martin Frost
(2006)
Basic Instinct 2
as Roy Washburn
(2006)
The Omen
as Keith Jennings
(2005)
Kingdom of Heaven
as Hospitaler
(2005)
The New World
as Wingfield
(2005)
All the Invisible Children
as Jonathan (segment "Jonathan")
(2004)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Remus Lupin
(2004)
(2003)
Timeline
as Robert Doniger
(2003)
Cheeky
as Harry Sankey
(2003)
Little Wolf's Book of Badness
as Mr. Twister (voice)
(2002)
Discovering Dinotopia
as Cyrus
(2002)
Dinotopia
as Cyrus Crabb
(2002)
Hamilton Mattress
as Hamilton Mattress (voice)
(2002)
D.I.Y. Hard
as Man
(2001)
Goodbye Charlie Bright
as Charlie's Dad
(2000)
The Miracle Maker
as Judas Iscariot (voice)
(2000)
Gangster No. 1
as Freddie Mays
(2000)
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Nesbit
(2000)
Endgame
as Clov
(1999)
Love Story
as Dealer
(1998)
The Big Lebowski
as Knox Harrington
(1998)
Besieged
as Jason Kinsky
(1998)
Divorcing Jack
as Dan Starkey
(1997)
Seven Years in Tibet
as Peter Aufschnaiter
(1997)
American Perfekt
as Santini
(1997)
The Making of 'DragonHeart'
as Self
(1996)
James and the Giant Peach
as Earthworm (voice)
(1996)
DragonHeart
as King Einon
(1996)
The Island of Dr. Moreau
as Douglas
(1995)
Total Eclipse
as Paul Verlaine
(1995)
Restoration
as John Pearce
(1994)
Black Beauty
as Jerry Barker
(1994)
(1993)
Naked
as Johnny
(1993)
The Trial
as Franz
(1992)
Damage
as Detective
(1992)
Black and Blue
as Crematorium Attendant
(1992)
Swords at Teatime
as Mike
(1991)
Afraid of the Dark
as Locksmith / Tom Miller
(1991)
Skulduggery
as Tony
(1991)
Filipina Dreamgirls
as Tim Shanks
(1991)
Journey to Knock
as Terry
(1990)
Life Is Sweet
as Nicola's Lover
(1989)
Resurrected
as Kevin Deakin
(1988)
Vroom
as Ringe
(1988)
(1987)
Little Dorrit
as George Braddle
(1987)
Road
as Joey
(1987)
The Short & Curlies
as Clive
Crew
(2014)
Sunday Roast
Writer
(2003)
Cheeky
Director, Writer
(1995)
Hello, Hello, Hello
Director, Writer