David Thewlis
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Biography
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.
Known For
Big Mouth
The Sandman
KAOS
Prime Suspect
Only Fools and Horses
Avatar: The Way of Water
Fargo
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
The Big Lebowski
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Justice League
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
James and the Giant Peach
RED 2
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Val
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Wonder Woman
The Theory of Everything
Timeline
Human Resources
Kingdom of Heaven
Basic Instinct 2
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Legend
The Fifth Estate
The Omen
DragonHeart
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Amazing Maurice
Regression
Stonehearst Asylum
Enola Holmes 2
The Artful Dodger
Landscapers
Naked
The Feed
Sherlock & Daughter
Anomalisa
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