David Thewlis

Acting · Born 1963-03-20 in 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…

Filmography

• Seven Years in Tibet as Peter Aufschnaiter
• Kingdom of Heaven as Hospitaler
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Remus Lupin
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Remus Lupin
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Remus Lupin
• Enola Holmes 2 as Grail
• Naked as Johnny
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Remus Lupin
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Remus Lupin
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as Father

TV

• Only Fools and Horses as Stew
• Fargo as V.M. Vargas
• The Sandman as John Dee
• The Artful Dodger as Norbert Fagin
• Big Mouth as Shame Wizard (voice)
• Big Mouth
• Prime Suspect as James Jackson
• Landscapers as Christopher Edwards
• A Bit of a Do
• Dandelion Dead as Oswald Martin