
Acting
Community Rating
6.7
1 Ratist review
Born
March 20, 1963 (age 63)
Born in
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.
Signal One
2026

Avatar: Fire and Ash
Peylak
2025

The Thing with Feathers
Crow (voice)
2025

The Amazing Maurice
Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
2022

Enola Holmes 2
Grail
2022

Rare Beasts
Vic
2021

Zack Snyder's Justice League
Ares
2021

I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Father
2020

Eternal Beauty
Mike
2020

Guest of Honour
Jim
2020

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Self (archive footage)
2018

The Mercy
Rodney Hallworth
2018

Justice League
Ares
2017

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Himself
2017

Wonder Woman
Sir Patrick / Ares
2017

None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
Self
2016

Anomalisa
Michael Stone (voice)
2015

Regression
Professor Kenneth Raines
2015

Macbeth
Duncan
2015

An Inspector Calls
Inspector Goole - The Inspector
2015