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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 20, 1963
Place of Birth
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Also Known As
- 데이빗 듈리스
- David Wheeler
David Thewlis
5.5 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
7.4
Peylak
Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025
7.4
Crow (voice)
The Thing with Feathers
2025
6.8
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock & Daughter
2025
7.2
Hades
KAOS
2024
8.0
Norbert Fagin
The Artful Dodger
2023
6.7
Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
The Amazing Maurice
2022
7.3
Grail
Enola Holmes 2
2022
7.9
John Dee
The Sandman
2022
6.5
Memory Bank Manager (voice)
Human Resources
2022
6.5
Lionel St. Swithens (voice)
Human Resources
2022
Credits
Avatar: Fire and Ash
as Peylak
2025
7.4
The Thing with Feathers
as Crow (voice)
2025
7.4
Sherlock & Daughter
as Sherlock Holmes
2025
6.8
KAOS
as Hades
2024
7.2
The Artful Dodger
as Norbert Fagin
2023
8.0
The Amazing Maurice
as Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
2022
6.7
Enola Holmes 2
as Grail
2022
7.3
The Sandman
as John Dee
2022
7.9
Human Resources
as Memory Bank Manager (voice)
2022
6.5
Human Resources
as Lionel St. Swithens (voice)
2022
6.5
Landscapers
as Christopher Edwards
2021
6.8
Rare Beasts
as Vic
2021
5.5
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Ares
2021
8.1
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
as Father
2020
6.6
Eternal Beauty
as Mike
2020
6.2
Guest of Honour
as Jim
2020
5.4
Barkskins
as Claude Trepagny
2020
6.3
The Feed
as Lawrence Hatfield
2019
6.7
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
2018
5.4
The Mercy
as Rodney Hallworth
2018
5.9
Justice League
as Ares
2017
6.1
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
as Himself
2017
7.3
Big Mouth
as Shame Wizard (voice)
2017
7.6
Big Mouth
2017
7.6
Wonder Woman
as Sir Patrick / Ares
2017
7.2
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
as Self
2016
0.0
Anomalisa
as Michael Stone (voice)
2015
7.1
Regression
as Professor Kenneth Raines
2015
5.6
Macbeth
as Duncan
2015
6.5
An Inspector Calls
as Inspector Goole - The Inspector
2015
7.4
Legend
as Leslie Payne
2015
7.1
Queen & Country
as Sargeant Major Bradley
2015
6.1
The Theory of Everything
as Dennis Sciama
2014
7.8
Stonehearst Asylum
as Mickey Finn
2014
6.9
Fargo
as V.M. Vargas
2014
8.3
🎬
Sunday Roast
as Dick Puck
2014
0.0
Separate We Come, Separate We Go
as Norman
2013
6.5
The Fifth Estate
as Nick Davies
2013
6.0
The Zero Theorem
as Joby
2013
6.1
RED 2
as The Frog
2013
6.5
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
7.6
War Horse
as Lyons
2011
7.3
The Lady
as Michael Aris
2011
6.8
Anonymous
as William Cecil
2011
6.4
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Remus Lupin
2011
8.1
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
as Pablo (voice)
2011
5.0
How to Get a Head in Sculpture
as Self
2011
8.0
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Remus Lupin
2010
7.7
London Boulevard
as Jordan
2010
5.9
Mr. Nice
as Jim McCann
2010
6.1
Athena
as Chuck
2010
0.0
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Remus Lupin
2009
7.7
Veronika Decides to Die
as Dr. Blake
2009
5.9
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
as Father
2008
7.8
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
as Martin Frost
2007
4.3
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Remus Lupin
2007
7.7
The Omen
as Keith Jennings
2006
5.7
The Street
as Joe Jennerson / Harry Jennerson
2006
7.7
Basic Instinct 2
as Roy Washburn
2006
5.0
All the Invisible Children
as Jonathan (segment "Jonathan")
2006
7.0
The New World
as Wingfield
2005
6.5
Kingdom of Heaven
as Hospitaler
2005
7.0
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
2004
7.7
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Remus Lupin
2004
8.0
Little Wolf's Book of Badness
as Mr. Twister (voice)
2003
7.5
Timeline
as Robert Doniger
2003
5.7
Cheeky
as Harry Sankey
2003
6.4
D.I.Y. Hard
as Man
2002
8.7
Dinotopia
as Cyrus Crabb
2002
6.4
Discovering Dinotopia
as Cyrus
2002
6.3
Dinotopia
as Cyrus Crabb
2002
5.8
Hamilton Mattress
as Hamilton Mattress (voice)
2002
6.3
Goodbye Charlie Bright
as Charlie's Dad
2001
6.1
Endgame
as Clov
2000
6.8
Gangster No. 1
as Freddie Mays
2000
6.4
The Miracle Maker
as Judas Iscariot (voice)
2000
6.1
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Nesbit
2000
6.1
Love Story
as Dealer
1999
0.0
Divorcing Jack
as Dan Starkey
1998
5.9
The Big Lebowski
as Knox Harrington
1998
7.8
Besieged
as Jason Kinsky
1998
6.6
Seven Years in Tibet
as Peter Aufschnaiter
1997
7.2
American Perfekt
as Santini
1997
6.3
The Making of 'DragonHeart'
as Self
1997
6.5
The Island of Dr. Moreau
as Douglas
1996
4.9
DragonHeart
as King Einon
1996
6.5
James and the Giant Peach
as Earthworm (voice)
1996
6.6
Restoration
as John Pearce
1995
6.0
Total Eclipse
as Paul Verlaine
1995
6.4
Dandelion Dead
as Oswald Martin
1994
8.0
Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool
as Self
1994
0.0
Black Beauty
as Jerry Barker
1994
6.7
Naked
as Johnny
1993
7.2
Frank Stubbs Promotes
as Mike Bence
1993
6.0
The Trial
as Franz
1993
5.9
Damage
as Detective
1992
6.6
🎬
Black and Blue
as Crematorium Attendant
1992
0.0
Swords at Teatime
as Mike
1992
0.0
Afraid of the Dark
as Locksmith / Tom Miller
1991
5.4
🎬
Journey to Knock
as Terry
1991
0.0
Filipina Dreamgirls
as Tim Shanks
1991
7.3
🎬
Skulduggery
as Tony
1991
0.0
Prime Suspect
as James Jackson
1991
7.7
Life Is Sweet
as Nicola's Lover
1990
7.0
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
as Doctor
1990
6.5
Resurrected
as Kevin Deakin
1989
5.8
A Bit of a Do
1989
5.9
Vroom
as Ringe
1988
6.1
Deep Red Instant Love
1988
0.0
Little Dorrit
as George Braddle
1987
6.5
The Short & Curlies
as Clive
1987
6.3
Road
as Joey
1987
7.2
Valentine Park
as Max
1987
0.0
The Singing Detective
as Soldier
1986
7.5
Radio Pictures
as JIM 'Grams'
1985
0.0
Screen Two
as Franz
1985
6.8
Only Fools and Horses
as Stew
1981
8.0
🎬
Littlemouth
N/A
0.0