David Thewlis
Birthday: 1963-03-20
Place of Birth: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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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Seven Years in Tibet
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
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Kingdom of Heaven
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching ...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Returning for his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the retur...
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a...
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The Omen
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror f...
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James and the Giant Peach
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possess...
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Basic Instinct 2
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychia...
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Gangster No. 1
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood...
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Enola Holmes 2
Now a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to...
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Damage
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obse...
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The Miracle Maker
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carp...
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Naked
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odys...
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Goodbye Charlie Bright
Following Charlie Bright and his friends over one hot summer on the South London housing estate wher...
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DragonHeart
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just a...
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Timeline
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their p...
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
A plane crash surviving attorney stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a...
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Veronika Decides to Die
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the super...
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Restoration
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and save...
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Black Beauty
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates ...
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befrie...
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Total Eclipse
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance w...
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Life Is Sweet
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy c...
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Afraid of the Dark
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions....
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Anonymous
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her...
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Divorcing Jack
He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper colum...
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Besieged
While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her impriso...
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All the Invisible Children
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist....
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Mr. Nice
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made h...
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Endgame
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father...
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London Boulevard
A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster....
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The Inner Life of Martin Frost
A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls in ...
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto p...
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The Trial
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested....
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The Making of 'DragonHeart'
This documentary was first released on the laserdisc for DragonHeart, and was then re-released on bo...
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War Horse
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his fathe...
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Resurrected
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia....
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The Lady
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relatio...
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Cheeky
Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, ...
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RED 2
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest t...
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The Zero Theorem
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work inter...
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Filipina Dreamgirls
Several men from Wales travel to the Philippines on an arranged tour to meet Filipina women for roma...
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Littlemouth
It tells the story of a computer scientist who is recruited by a tech billionaire to work on a proje...
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The Fifth Estate
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and even...
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Road
A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routine...
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The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
A 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes journey o...
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Vroom
Two young men and a sultry divorcee flee their drab hometown existence, taking to the road in a bubb...
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The New World
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the...
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Queen & Country
In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where...
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The Theory of Everything
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the...
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Macbeth
Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife ur...
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Regression
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her fathe...
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The Organ Grinder's Monkey
A cockroach with artistic aspirations follows an angst-ridden and talentless artist from pub to stud...
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Stonehearst Asylum
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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Legend
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their ...
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The Big Lebowski
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, ...
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The Short & Curlies
A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only...
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Swords at Teatime
Michael climbs on to the roof of the block of flats where he lives with his mother, and finds a worl...
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An Inspector Calls
Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only a...
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Love Story
Dave, a homeless man, shares a public toilet with narcotic users and alcoholics. Struggling to survi...
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Little Wolf's Book of Badness
He washes his paws, brushes his teeth and goes to bed early. He is packed off to Uncle Bigbad's Cunn...
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Sunday Roast
When a nervous young actor is sent to a mortuary to explore his fear of death, he is given the tour ...
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Wonder Woman
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the for...
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Journey to Knock
Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of Englan...
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American Perfekt
Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimen...
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The Mercy
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his...
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Little Dorrit
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a ...
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Hamilton Mattress
Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city....
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Dinotopia
After a plane crash strands two brothers on a lost continent where dinosaurs and humans live togethe...
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Separate We Come, Separate We Go
Separate We Come, Separate We Go is the story of a 10-year-old girl, Thea who escapes her bleak dome...
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How to Get a Head in Sculpture
From the heads of Roman Emperors to the 'blood head' of contemporary British artist Marc Quinn, the ...
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Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the ...
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Justice League
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and D...
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Eternal Beauty
When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normal...
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. L...
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Guest of Honour
Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted for. ...
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Rare Beasts
Mandy is a mother, a writer, a nihilist. Mandy is a modern woman in a crisis. Raising a son in the m...
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Skulduggery
Four lads decide to meet up and do a robbery planned by Sweeny, an angry, agressive but small young ...
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Black and Blue
When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corru...
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Athena
Chuck, a loner who had better days, runs a Halliday store in the middle of Californian desert. Custo...
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Anomalisa
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundan...
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The Amazing Maurice
Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of s...
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None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's 2015 stop-motion...
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with D...
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a r...
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Deep Red Instant Love
Budding romance and political subversion create a headache for the manager of Superstore in Rik Land...
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Discovering Dinotopia
The citizens of Waterfall City flee for the tenuous safety of Earthfarm, abandoning their city to th...
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The Thing with Feathers
After a tragic loss, a grieving father tries to raise his young sons whilst dealing with an unlikely...
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Dreamtown: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool
A revealing and often ribald look at the seaside resort where people can let their hair down, whethe...
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Radio Pictures
Intrigues and tension surround the production of a radio drama. The leading lady is unhappy with the...
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and ...
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