David Thewlis
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.
120 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 120
Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025
Damage
1992
Fargo
2014
The Sandman
2022
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Big Mouth
2017
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
Screen Two
1985
Kingdom of Heaven
2005
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
Wonder Woman
2017
Prime Suspect
1991
The Artful Dodger
2023
Justice League
2017
Only Fools and Horses
1981
The Big Lebowski
1998
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008
Screen One
1989
Sherlock & Daughter
2025
Human Resources
2022
Legend
2015
KAOS
2024
ScreenPlay
1986
The Street
2006
War Horse
2011
RED 2
2013
Enola Holmes 2
2022
Seven Years in Tibet
1997
The Theory of Everything
2014
The Feed
2019
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020
DragonHeart
1996
Basic Instinct 2
2006
Stonehearst Asylum
2014
Landscapers
2021
Dinotopia
2002
The Omen
2006
Naked
1993
The Singing Detective
1986
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Timeline
2003
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
The Mercy
2018
Barkskins
2020
The New World
2005
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993
Anomalisa
2015
Regression
2015
Black Beauty
1994
The Amazing Maurice
2022
The Zero Theorem
2013
A Bit of a Do
1989
Signal One
2026
Anonymous
2011
Dirty Business
2026
The Island of Dr. Moreau
1996
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990
Restoration
1995
Total Eclipse
1995
Macbeth
2015
The Fifth Estate
2013
The Thing with Feathers
2025
Dandelion Dead
1994
Queen & Country
2015
London Boulevard
2010
Gangster No. 1
2000
The Lady
2011
Mr. Nice
2010
An Inspector Calls
2015
The Miracle Maker
2000
All the Invisible Children
2006
Life Is Sweet
1991
Eternal Beauty
2020
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
Veronika Decides to Die
2009
Vroom
1988
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
Little Dorrit
1987
The Trial
1993
Cheeky
2003
Discovering Dinotopia
2002
Afraid of the Dark
1991
Besieged
1998
Dinotopia
2002
Resurrected
1989
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000
Rare Beasts
2021
Goodbye Charlie Bright
2001
Valentine Park
1987
Divorcing Jack
1998
American Perfekt
1997
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
2011
Road
1987
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
2016
Athena
2010
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003
Guest of Honour
2020
Black and Blue
1992
The Short & Curlies
1987
Skulduggery
1991
Little Wolf's Book of Badness
2003
The Making of 'DragonHeart'
1997
Endgame
2000
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
2007
Love Story
1999
Separate We Come, Separate We Go
2013
Journey to Knock
1991
D.I.Y. Hard
2002
Hamilton Mattress
2002
Filipina Dreamgirls
1991
How to Get a Head in Sculpture
2011
Radio Pictures
1985
Sunday Roast
2014
Swords at Teatime
1992
Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool
1994
Deep Red Instant Love
1988
