David Thewlis

Birthday: 1963-03-20
Birthplace: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Drafted: 446
Drafted By: Goutbreak
Owned By: Goutbreak
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 0
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0

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.

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Transaction History

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Credits

Year Title Character
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2025-12-17 Avatar: Fire and Ash Peylak
2022-12-16 The Amazing Maurice Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
2022-11-30 Enola Holmes 2 Grail
2021-05-21 Rare Beasts Vic
2021-03-18 Zack Snyder's Justice League Ares
2020-08-28 I'm Thinking of Ending Things Father
2020-08-21 Eternal Beauty Mike
2020-07-09 Guest of Honour Jim
2018-02-09 The Mercy Rodney Hallworth
2017-11-15 Justice League Ares
2017-05-30 Wonder Woman Sir Patrick / Ares
2015-12-30 Anomalisa Michael Stone (voice)
2015-10-01 Regression Professor Kenneth Raines
2015-09-22 Macbeth Duncan
2015-09-13 An Inspector Calls Inspector Goole - The Inspector
2015-09-09 Legend Leslie Payne
2015-01-07 Queen & Country Sargeant Major Bradley
2014-11-26 The Theory of Everything Dennis Sciama
2014-10-23 Stonehearst Asylum Mickey Finn
2014-01-01 Sunday Roast Dick Puck
2013-10-25 Separate We Come, Separate We Go Norman
2013-10-11 The Fifth Estate Nick Davies
2013-09-20 The Zero Theorem Joby
2013-07-18 RED 2 The Frog
2011-12-25 War Horse Lyons
2011-11-30 The Lady Michael Aris
2011-10-21 Anonymous William Cecil
2011-07-12 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Remus Lupin
2011-06-06 The Organ Grinder's Monkey Pablo (voice)
2010-11-17 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Remus Lupin
2010-11-10 London Boulevard Jordan
2010-10-07 Mr. Nice Jim McCann
2010-04-21 Athena Chuck
2009-07-15 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Remus Lupin
2009-05-16 Veronika Decides to Die Dr. Blake
2008-05-07 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Father
2007-10-11 The Inner Life of Martin Frost Martin Frost
2007-07-08 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Remus Lupin
2006-06-06 The Omen Keith Jennings
2006-03-29 Basic Instinct 2 Roy Washburn
2005-12-25 The New World Wingfield
2005-09-01 All the Invisible Children Jonathan (segment "Jonathan")
2005-05-03 Kingdom of Heaven Hospitaler
2004-05-31 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Remus Lupin
2003-12-08 Little Wolf's Book of Badness Mr. Twister (voice)
2003-11-26 Timeline Robert Doniger
2003-09-08 Cheeky Harry Sankey
2002-09-30 D.I.Y. Hard Man
2002-02-12 Dinotopia Cyrus Crabb
2002-01-01 Hamilton Mattress Hamilton Mattress (voice)
2001-05-11 Goodbye Charlie Bright Charlie's Dad
2000-09-10 Endgame Clov
2000-06-09 Gangster No. 1 Freddie Mays
2000-03-31 The Miracle Maker Judas Iscariot (voice)
2000-03-10 Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? Nesbit
1999-01-01 Love Story Dealer
1998-10-01 Divorcing Jack Dan Starkey
1998-03-06 The Big Lebowski Knox Harrington
1998-02-05 Besieged Jason Kinsky
1997-09-12 Seven Years in Tibet Peter Aufschnaiter
1997-06-11 American Perfekt Santini
1996-08-23 The Island of Dr. Moreau Douglas
1996-05-31 DragonHeart King Einon
1996-04-12 James and the Giant Peach Earthworm (voice)
1995-12-29 Restoration John Pearce
1995-11-03 Total Eclipse Paul Verlaine
1994-07-29 Black Beauty Jerry Barker
1993-11-05 Naked Johnny
1993-06-18 The Trial Franz
1992-12-02 Damage Detective
1992-09-27 Black and Blue Crematorium Attendant
1992-04-14 Swords at Teatime Mike
1991-10-10 Afraid of the Dark Locksmith / Tom Miller
1991-09-17 Journey to Knock Terry
1991-09-15 Filipina Dreamgirls Tim Shanks
1991-06-29 Skulduggery Tony
1990-11-15 Life Is Sweet Nicola's Lover
1989-03-12 Resurrected Kevin Deakin
1988-11-11 Vroom Ringe
1988-01-01 Deep Red Instant Love
1987-12-11 Little Dorrit George Braddle
1987-12-01 The Short & Curlies Clive
1987-10-07 Road Joey