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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Signal One | 2026-06-08 | |
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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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Enola Holmes 2 | Grail | 2022-11-30 |
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The Amazing Maurice | Boss Man / Rat King (voice) | 2022-12-16 |
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Rare Beasts | Vic | 2021-05-21 |
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Zack Snyder's Justice League | Ares | 2021-03-18 |
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Eternal Beauty | Mike | 2020-08-21 |
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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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The Mercy | Rodney Hallworth | 2018-02-09 |
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-21 |
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Wonder Woman | Sir Patrick / Ares | 2017-05-30 |
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Harry Potter: A History Of Magic | Himself | 2017-10-28 |
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Justice League | Ares | 2017-11-15 |
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None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa | Self | 2016-06-07 |
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Macbeth | Duncan | 2015-09-22 |
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Regression | Professor Kenneth Raines | 2015-10-01 |
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Queen & Country | Sargeant Major Bradley | 2015-01-07 |
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Legend | Leslie Payne | 2015-09-09 |
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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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The Theory of Everything | Dennis Sciama | 2014-11-07 |
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Sunday Roast | Dick Puck | 2014-01-01 |
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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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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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Anonymous | William Cecil | 2011-10-21 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Remus Lupin | 2011-07-12 |
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War Horse | Lyons | 2011-12-25 |
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The Organ Grinder's Monkey | Pablo (voice) | 2011-06-06 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Remus Lupin | 2010-11-17 |
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Mr. Nice | Jim McCann | 2010-10-07 |
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London Boulevard | Jordan | 2010-11-10 |
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Athena | Chuck | 2010-04-21 |
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Veronika Decides to Die | Dr. Blake | 2009-05-16 |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Remus Lupin | 2009-07-15 |
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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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Les enfants invisibles | Jonathan (segment "Jonathan") | 2006-03-03 |
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Basic Instinct 2 | Roy Washburn | 2006-03-29 |
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The Omen | Keith Jennings | 2006-06-06 |
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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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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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Little Wolf's Book of Badness | Mr. Twister (voice) | 2003-12-08 |
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Timeline | Robert Doniger | 2003-11-26 |
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Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film | Self - Clov (archive footage) | 2003-02-05 |
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Cheeky | Harry Sankey | 2003-09-08 |
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D.I.Y. Hard | Man | 2002-09-30 |
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Dinotopia | Cyrus Crabb | 2002-02-12 |
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Hamilton Mattress | Hamilton Mattress (voice) | 2002-01-01 |
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Discovering Dinotopia | Cyrus | 2002-05-07 |
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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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The Big Lebowski | Knox Harrington | 1998-03-06 |
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L'assedio | Jason Kinsky | 1998-02-05 |
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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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James and the Giant Peach | Earthworm (voice) | 1996-04-12 |
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DragonHeart | King Einon | 1996-05-31 |
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The Island of Dr. Moreau | Douglas | 1996-08-23 |
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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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Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool | Self | 1994-08-29 |
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Black Beauty | Jerry Barker | 1994-07-29 |
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The Trial | Franz | 1993-06-18 |
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Naked | Johnny | 1993-08-06 |
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Swords at Teatime | Mike | 1992-04-14 |
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Black and Blue | Crematorium Attendant | 1992-09-27 |
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Damage | Detective | 1992-12-02 |
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Life Is Sweet | Nicola's Lover | 1991-03-22 |
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Filipina Dreamgirls | Tim Shanks | 1991-09-15 |
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Journey to Knock | Terry | 1991-09-17 |
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Skulduggery | Tony | 1991-06-29 |
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Afraid of the Dark | Locksmith / Tom Miller | 1991-10-10 |
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Resurrected | Kevin Deakin | 1989-03-12 |
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Deep Red Instant Love | 1988-01-01 | |
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Vroom | Ringe | 1988-11-11 |
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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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Radio Pictures | JIM 'Grams' | 1985-07-16 |
