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.
as Perry
as Ash Smith(3 eps)
as Peylak
as Crow (voice)
as Sherlock Holmes(8 eps)
as Hades(6 eps)
as Norbert Fagin(16 eps)
as Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
as Grail
as John Dee(4 eps)
as Memory Bank Manager (voice)(1 ep)
as Lionel St. Swithens (voice)(20 eps)
as Christopher Edwards(4 eps)
as Self (archive)
as Vic
as Ares
as Father
as Mike
as Jim
as Claude Trepagny(8 eps)
as Lawrence Hatfield(10 eps)
as Self (archive footage)
as Rodney Hallworth
as Ares
as Himself
as Shame Wizard (voice)(8 eps)
as Lionel St. Swithens (voice)(4 eps)
as Actor (voice)(1 ep)
as Sir Patrick
as Michael Stone (voice)
as Professor Kenneth Raines
as Duncan
as Inspector Goole - The Inspector
as Leslie Payne
as Sargeant Major Bradley
as Dennis Sciama
as Mickey Finn
as V.M. Vargas(10 eps)
as Dick Puck
as Norman
as Nick Davies
as Joby
as The Frog
as (archive footage)
as Lyons
as Michael Aris
as William Cecil
as Self - Remus Lupin
as Remus Lupin
as Pablo (voice)
as Remus Lupin
as Jordan
as Jim McCann
as Chuck
as Remus Lupin
as Dr. Blake
as Father
as Martin Frost
as Remus Lupin
as Keith Jennings
as Joe Jennerson / Harry Jennerson(6 eps)
as Roy Washburn
as Jonathan (segment "Jonathan")
as Wingfield
as Hospitaler
as Self - Professor Lupin
as Remus Lupin
as Mr. Twister (voice)
as Robert Doniger
as Harry Sankey
as Self - Clov (archive footage)
as Man
as Cyrus Crabb(3 eps)
as Cyrus
as Cyrus Crabb
as Hamilton Mattress (voice)
as Charlie's Dad
as Clov
as Freddie Mays
as Judas Iscariot (voice)
as Nesbit
as Dealer
as Dan Starkey
as Knox Harrington
as Jason Kinsky
as Peter Aufschnaiter
as Santini
as Self
as Douglas
as King Einon
as Earthworm (voice)
as John Pearce
as Paul Verlaine
as Oswald Martin(4 eps)
as Jerry Barker
as Johnny
as Mike Bence(1 ep)
as Franz
as Johnny(5 eps)
as Detective
as Crematorium Attendant
as Mike
as Locksmith / Tom Miller
as Terry
as Tim Shanks
as Tony
as James Jackson(2 eps)
as Nicola's Lover
as Terry Slater(1 ep)
as Doctor(3 eps)
as Tim Shanks(1 ep)
as Kevin Deakin
as Paul Simcock(6 eps)
as Ringe
as George Braddle
as Clive
as Joey
as Max(12 eps)
as Soldier(2 eps)
as Joey(1 ep)
as Terry(1 ep)
as JIM 'Grams'
as Keith(1 ep)
as Jim 'Grams' Dench(1 ep)
as Franz(1 ep)
as Stew(1 ep)