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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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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June 5th, 2026 | Signal One | TBD | TBD | |
December 17th, 2025 | Avatar: Fire and Ash | Peylak | 7.5 | |
October 17th, 2025 | The Thing with Feathers | Crow (voice) | 6.5 | |
December 16th, 2022 | The Amazing Maurice | Boss Man / Rat King (voice) | 6.7 | |
November 4th, 2022 | Enola Holmes 2 | Grail | 7.4 | |
May 21st, 2021 | Rare Beasts | Vic | 5.5 | |
March 18th, 2021 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | Ares | 8.1 | |
August 28th, 2020 | I'm Thinking of Ending Things | Father | 6.6 | |
August 21st, 2020 | Eternal Beauty | Mike | 6.2 | |
July 9th, 2020 | Guest of Honour | Jim | 5.4 | |
August 21st, 2018 | Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Self (archive footage) | 5.4 | |
February 9th, 2018 | The Mercy | Rodney Hallworth | 5.9 | |
November 15th, 2017 | Justice League | Ares | 6.1 | |
October 28th, 2017 | Harry Potter: A History Of Magic | Himself | 7.3 | |
May 30th, 2017 | Wonder Woman | Sir Patrick / Ares | 7.2 | |
June 7th, 2016 | None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa | Self | TBD | |
December 30th, 2015 | Anomalisa | Michael Stone (voice) | 7.1 | |
October 1st, 2015 | Regression | Professor Kenneth Raines | 5.6 | |
September 22nd, 2015 | Macbeth | Duncan | 6.4 | |
September 13th, 2015 | An Inspector Calls | Inspector Goole - The Inspector | 7.4 | |
September 9th, 2015 | Legend | Leslie Payne | 7.1 | |
January 7th, 2015 | Queen & Country | Sargeant Major Bradley | 6.1 | |
November 7th, 2014 | The Theory of Everything | Dennis Sciama | 7.8 | |
October 23rd, 2014 | Stonehearst Asylum | Mickey Finn | 6.8 | |
January 1st, 2014 | Sunday Roast | Dick Puck | TBD | |
October 25th, 2013 | Separate We Come, Separate We Go | Norman | 6.5 | |
October 11th, 2013 | The Fifth Estate | Nick Davies | 6 | |
September 20th, 2013 | The Zero Theorem | Joby | 6.1 | |
July 18th, 2013 | RED 2 | The Frog | 6.5 | |
February 4th, 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 7.5 | |
December 25th, 2011 | War Horse | Lyons | 7.3 | |
November 30th, 2011 | The Lady | Michael Aris | 6.8 | |
October 21st, 2011 | Anonymous | William Cecil | 6.4 | |
July 12th, 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Remus Lupin | 8.1 | |
June 6th, 2011 | The Organ Grinder's Monkey | Pablo (voice) | 5 | |
February 23rd, 2011 | How to Get a Head in Sculpture | Self | 8 | |
November 17th, 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Remus Lupin | 7.7 | |
November 10th, 2010 | London Boulevard | Jordan | 5.9 | |
October 7th, 2010 | Mr. Nice | Jim McCann | 6.1 | |
April 21st, 2010 | Athena | Chuck | TBD | |
July 15th, 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Remus Lupin | 7.7 | |
May 16th, 2009 | Veronika Decides to Die | Dr. Blake | 5.9 | |
May 7th, 2008 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | Father | 7.8 | |
October 11th, 2007 | The Inner Life of Martin Frost | Martin Frost | 4.5 | |
July 8th, 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Remus Lupin | 7.7 | |
June 6th, 2006 | The Omen | Keith Jennings | 5.7 | |
March 29th, 2006 | Basic Instinct 2 | Roy Washburn | 5 | |
March 3rd, 2006 | All the Invisible Children | Jonathan (segment "Jonathan") | 7 | |
December 25th, 2005 | The New World | Wingfield | 6.5 | |
May 3rd, 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | Hospitaler | 7 | |
June 11th, 2004 | The Magic Touch of Harry Potter | Self | 7.7 | |
May 31st, 2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Remus Lupin | 8 | |
December 8th, 2003 | Little Wolf's Book of Badness | Mr. Twister (voice) | 8 | |
November 26th, 2003 | Timeline | Robert Doniger | 5.7 | |
September 8th, 2003 | Cheeky | Harry Sankey | 6.6 | |
February 5th, 2003 | Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film | Self - Clov (archive footage) | 10 | |
September 30th, 2002 | D.I.Y. Hard | Man | 9 | |
May 7th, 2002 | Discovering Dinotopia | Cyrus | 6.4 | |
February 12th, 2002 | Dinotopia | Cyrus Crabb | 8.2 | |
January 1st, 2002 | Hamilton Mattress | Hamilton Mattress (voice) | 6.9 | |
May 11th, 2001 | Goodbye Charlie Bright | Charlie's Dad | 6.1 | |
September 10th, 2000 | Endgame | Clov | 7.3 | |
June 9th, 2000 | Gangster No. 1 | Freddie Mays | 6.4 | |
March 31st, 2000 | The Miracle Maker | Judas Iscariot (voice) | 6.1 | |
March 10th, 2000 | Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | Nesbit | 6.3 | |
January 1st, 1999 | Love Story | Dealer | 9 | |
October 1st, 1998 | Divorcing Jack | Dan Starkey | 6 | |
March 6th, 1998 | The Big Lebowski | Knox Harrington | 7.8 | |
February 5th, 1998 | Besieged | Jason Kinsky | 6.7 | |
September 12th, 1997 | Seven Years in Tibet | Peter Aufschnaiter | 7.2 | |
June 11th, 1997 | American Perfekt | Santini | 6.5 | |
January 14th, 1997 | The Making of 'DragonHeart' | Self | 7.3 | |
August 23rd, 1996 | The Island of Dr. Moreau | Douglas | 4.9 | |
May 31st, 1996 | DragonHeart | King Einon | 6.6 | |
April 12th, 1996 | James and the Giant Peach | Earthworm (voice) | 6.6 | |
December 29th, 1995 | Restoration | John Pearce | 6.1 | |
November 3rd, 1995 | Total Eclipse | Paul Verlaine | 6.4 | |
August 29th, 1994 | Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool | Self | TBD | |
July 29th, 1994 | Black Beauty | Jerry Barker | 6.7 | |
August 6th, 1993 | Naked | Johnny | 7.3 | |
June 18th, 1993 | The Trial | Franz | 6 | |
December 2nd, 1992 | Damage | Detective | 6.6 | |
September 27th, 1992 | Black and Blue | Crematorium Attendant | 9 | |
April 14th, 1992 | Swords at Teatime | Mike | 9 | |
October 10th, 1991 | Afraid of the Dark | Locksmith / Tom Miller | 5.6 | |
September 17th, 1991 | Journey to Knock | Terry | 10 | |
September 15th, 1991 | Filipina Dreamgirls | Tim Shanks | 7.3 | |
June 29th, 1991 | Skulduggery | Tony | TBD | |
March 22nd, 1991 | Life Is Sweet | Nicola's Lover | 7 | |
March 12th, 1989 | Resurrected | Kevin Deakin | 6.4 | |
November 11th, 1988 | Vroom | Ringe | 6.5 | |
January 1st, 1988 | Deep Red Instant Love | TBD | TBD | |
December 11th, 1987 | Little Dorrit | George Braddle | 6.4 | |
December 1st, 1987 | The Short & Curlies | Clive | 6.4 | |
October 7th, 1987 | Road | Joey | 7.2 | |
July 16th, 1985 | Radio Pictures | JIM 'Grams' | TBD |