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David Thewlis
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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 genre…
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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.
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2026
Signal One
Movie Perry
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2026
Dirty Business
TV show Ash Smith
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2025
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Movie Peylak
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2025
The Thing with Feathers
Movie Crow (voice)
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2025
Sherlock & Daughter
TV show Sherlock Holmes
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2024
KAOS
TV show Hades
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2023
The Artful Dodger
TV show Norbert Fagin
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2022
The Amazing Maurice
Movie Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
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2022
Enola Holmes 2
Movie Grail
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2022
The Sandman
TV show John Dee
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2022
Human Resources
TV show Memory Bank Manager (voice)
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2021
Landscapers
TV show Christopher Edwards
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2021
Val
Movie Self (archive)
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2021
Rare Beasts
Movie Vic
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2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Movie Ares
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2020
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Movie Father
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2020
Eternal Beauty
Movie Mike
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2020
Guest of Honour
Movie Jim
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2020
Barkskins
TV show Claude Trepagny
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2019
The Feed
TV show Lawrence Hatfield
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2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
The Mercy
Movie Rodney Hallworth
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2017
Justice League
Movie Ares
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2017
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Movie Himself
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2017
Big Mouth
TV show Shame Wizard (voice)
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2017
Wonder Woman
Movie Sir Patrick / Ares
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2016
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
Movie Self
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2015
Anomalisa
Movie Michael Stone (voice)
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2015
Regression
Movie Professor Kenneth Raines
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2015
Macbeth
Movie Duncan
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2015
An Inspector Calls
Movie Inspector Goole - The Inspector
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2015
Legend
Movie Leslie Payne
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2015
Queen & Country
Movie Sargeant Major Bradley
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2014
The Theory of Everything
Movie Dennis Sciama
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2014
Stonehearst Asylum
Movie Mickey Finn
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2014
Fargo
TV show V.M. Vargas
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2014
Sunday Roast
Movie Dick Puck
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2013
Separate We Come, Separate We Go
Movie Norman
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2013
The Fifth Estate
Movie Nick Davies
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2013
The Zero Theorem
Movie Joby
