1963-03-20 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 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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Avatar: Fire and Ash | Peylak | 2025-12-17 |
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The Thing with Feathers | Crow (voice) | 2025-10-17 |
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The Amazing Maurice | Boss Man / Rat King (voice) | 2022-12-16 |
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Enola Holmes 2 | Grail | 2022-11-30 |
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Zack Snyder's Justice League | Ares | 2021-03-18 |
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Rare Beasts | Vic | 2021-05-21 |
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things | Father | 2020-08-28 |
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Guest of Honour | Jim | 2020-07-09 |
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Eternal Beauty | Mike | 2020-08-21 |
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-21 |
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The Mercy | Rodney Hallworth | 2018-02-09 |
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Wonder Woman | Sir Patrick / Ares | 2017-05-30 |
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Justice League | Ares | 2017-11-15 |
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Harry Potter: A History Of Magic | Himself | 2017-10-28 |
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None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa | Self | 2016-06-07 |
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An Inspector Calls | Inspector Goole - The Inspector | 2015-09-13 |
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Anomalisa | Michael Stone (voice) | 2015-12-30 |
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Regression | Professor Kenneth Raines | 2015-10-01 |
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Legend | Leslie Payne | 2015-09-09 |
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Macbeth | Duncan | 2015-09-22 |
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Sunday Roast | Dick Puck | 2014-01-01 |
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The Theory of Everything | Dennis Sciama | 2014-11-07 |
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Queen & Country | Sargeant Major Bradley | 2014-09-14 |
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Stonehearst Asylum | Mickey Finn | 2014-10-23 |
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The Zero Theorem | Joby | 2013-09-20 |
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RED 2 | The Frog | 2013-07-18 |
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Separate We Come, Separate We Go | Norman | 2013-10-25 |
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The Fifth Estate | Nick Davies | 2013-10-11 |
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Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
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War Horse | Lyons | 2011-12-25 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Remus Lupin | 2011-07-12 |
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Anonymous | William Cecil | 2011-10-21 |
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The Organ Grinder's Monkey | Pablo (voice) | 2011-06-06 |
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The Lady | Michael Aris | 2011-11-30 |
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How to Get a Head in Sculpture | Self | 2011-02-23 |
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Mr. Nice | Jim McCann | 2010-10-07 |
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Athena | Chuck | 2010-04-21 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Remus Lupin | 2010-11-17 |
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London Boulevard | Jordan | 2010-11-10 |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Remus Lupin | 2009-07-15 |
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Veronika Decides to Die | Dr. Blake | 2009-05-16 |
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | Father | 2008-05-07 |
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The Inner Life of Martin Frost | Martin Frost | 2007-10-11 |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Remus Lupin | 2007-07-08 |
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The Omen | Keith Jennings | 2006-06-06 |
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Basic Instinct 2 | Roy Washburn | 2006-03-29 |
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Kingdom of Heaven | Hospitaler | 2005-05-03 |
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The New World | Wingfield | 2005-12-25 |
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Les enfants invisibles | Jonathan (segment "Jonathan") | 2005-09-01 |
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The Magic Touch of Harry Potter | Self | 2004-06-11 |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Remus Lupin | 2004-05-31 |
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Timeline | Robert Doniger | 2003-11-26 |
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Cheeky | Harry Sankey | 2003-09-08 |
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Little Wolf's Book of Badness | Mr. Twister (voice) | 2003-12-08 |
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Dinotopia | Cyrus Crabb | 2002-02-12 |
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Discovering Dinotopia | Cyrus | 2002-05-07 |
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Hamilton Mattress | Hamilton Mattress (voice) | 2002-01-01 |
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D.I.Y. Hard | Man | 2002-09-30 |
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Goodbye Charlie Bright | Charlie's Dad | 2001-05-11 |
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Endgame | Clov | 2000-09-10 |
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Gangster No. 1 | Freddie Mays | 2000-06-09 |
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | Nesbit | 2000-03-10 |
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The Miracle Maker | Judas Iscariot (voice) | 2000-03-31 |
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Love Story | Dealer | 1999-01-01 |
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Divorcing Jack | Dan Starkey | 1998-10-01 |
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L'assedio | Jason Kinsky | 1998-02-05 |
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The Big Lebowski | Knox Harrington | 1998-03-06 |
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Seven Years in Tibet | Peter Aufschnaiter | 1997-09-12 |
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American Perfekt | Santini | 1997-06-11 |
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The Making of 'DragonHeart' | Self | 1997-01-14 |
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The Island of Dr. Moreau | Douglas | 1996-08-23 |
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DragonHeart | King Einon | 1996-05-31 |
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James and the Giant Peach | Earthworm (voice) | 1996-04-12 |
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Restoration | John Pearce | 1995-12-29 |
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Total Eclipse | Paul Verlaine | 1995-11-03 |
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Black Beauty | Jerry Barker | 1994-07-29 |
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Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool | Self | 1994-08-29 |
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Naked | Johnny | 1993-08-06 |
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The Trial | Franz | 1993-06-18 |
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Damage | Detective | 1992-12-02 |
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Black and Blue | Crematorium Attendant | 1992-09-27 |
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Swords at Teatime | Mike | 1992-04-14 |
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Skulduggery | Tony | 1991-06-29 |
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Journey to Knock | Terry | 1991-09-17 |
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Filipina Dreamgirls | Tim Shanks | 1991-09-15 |
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Afraid of the Dark | Locksmith / Tom Miller | 1991-10-10 |
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Life Is Sweet | Nicola's Lover | 1990-11-15 |
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Resurrected | Kevin Deakin | 1989-03-12 |
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Vroom | Ringe | 1988-11-11 |
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Deep Red Instant Love | 1988-01-01 | |
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Road | Joey | 1987-10-07 |
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The Short & Curlies | Clive | 1987-12-01 |
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Little Dorrit | George Braddle | 1987-12-11 |
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