David Thewlis
Birthday: 1963-03-20 | Place of Birth: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UKDavid Wheeler (born 20 March 1963), better known as David Thewlis, is an English actor, director, screenwriter, and author. Thewlis rose to prominence when he starred in the film Naked (1993), for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. His most commercially successful roles have been Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter franchise (2004–2011) and Sir Patrick Morgan / Ares in Wonder Woman (2017). Other film roles include Total Eclipse (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Dragonheart (1996), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Anomalisa (2015), and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). He will appear in Enola Holmes 2 (2022) and Avatar 3 (2024). Thewlis' most notable television roles are Cyrus Crabb in the miniseries Dinotopia (2002), V. M. Varga in the third series of Fargo (2017), the voice of the Shame Wizard in the animated sitcom Big Mouth (2017–present), and Christopher Edwards in the miniseries Landscapers (2021). His performance in Fargo earned him nominations for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Critics' Choice Award.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
as Lionel St. Swithens (voice)
as Christopher Edwards
as Self (archive footage)
as Vic
as Claude Trepagny
as Father
as Jim
as Mike
as Lawrence Hatfield
as Rodney Hallworth
as Sir Patrick / Ares
as Professor Kenneth Raines
as Duncan
as Inspector Goole - The Inspector
as Leslie Payne
as Michael Stone (voice)
as Sargeant Major Bradley
as Dennis Sciama
as Joby
as Mickey Finn
as Nick Davies
as The Frog
as Michael Aris
as Jim McCann
as Lyons
as William Cecil
as Jordan
