David Thewlis
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.
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Movies (40)
Avatar: Fire and Ash
as Peylak
2025
The Thing with Feathers
as Crow (voice)
2025
The Amazing Maurice
as Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
2022
Enola Holmes 2
as Grail
2022
Rare Beasts
as Vic
2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Ares
2021
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
as Father
2020
Eternal Beauty
as Mike
2020
Guest of Honour
as Jim
2020
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
2018
The Mercy
as Rodney Hallworth
2018
Justice League
as Ares
2017
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
as Himself
2017
Wonder Woman
as Sir Patrick / Ares
2017
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
as Self
2016
Anomalisa
as Michael Stone (voice)
2015
Regression
as Professor Kenneth Raines
2015
Macbeth
as Duncan
2015
An Inspector Calls
as Inspector Goole - The Inspector
2015
Legend
as Leslie Payne
2015
The Theory of Everything
as Dennis Sciama
2014
Stonehearst Asylum
as Mickey Finn
2014
Queen & Country
as Sargeant Major Bradley
2014
Sunday Roast
as Dick Puck
2014
Separate We Come, Separate We Go
as Norman
2013
The Fifth Estate
as Nick Davies
2013
The Zero Theorem
as Joby
2013
RED 2
as The Frog
2013
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
War Horse
as Lyons
2011
The Lady
as Michael Aris
2011
Anonymous
as William Cecil
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Remus Lupin
2011
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
as Pablo (voice)
2011
How to Get a Head in Sculpture
as Self
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Remus Lupin
2010
London Boulevard
as Jordan
2010
Mr. Nice
as Jim McCann
2010
Athena
as Chuck
2010
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Remus Lupin
2009
TV Shows (10)
Sherlock & Daughter
as Sherlock Holmes
2025
KAOS
as Hades
2024
The Artful Dodger
as Norbert Fagin
2023
The Sandman
as John Dee
2022
Human Resources
as Memory Bank Manager (voice)
2022
Landscapers
as Christopher Edwards
2021
Barkskins
as Claude Trepagny
2020
The Feed
as Lawrence Hatfield
2019
Big Mouth
as Shame Wizard (voice)
2017
Fargo
as V.M. Vargas
2014