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David Thewlis

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Also known as David Wheeler

British actor

Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • Shooting Martha
  • The Late Hector Kipling

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Film & TV

Acting · Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

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…

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  • Signal One2026
  • Dirty Business — Ash Smith2026
  • The Thing with Feathers — Crow (voice)2025
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash — Peylak2025
  • Sherlock & Daughter — Sherlock Holmes2025
  • KAOS — Hades2024
  • The Artful Dodger — Norbert Fagin2023
  • Enola Holmes 2 — Grail2022
  • The Amazing Maurice — Boss Man / Rat King (voice)2022
  • Human Resources — Memory Bank Manager (voice)2022

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1963

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2,232
Total plays
16,081

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David Thewlis (né Wheeler; born 20 March 1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire) is an English film, television and stage actor, as well as a writer. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/David+Thewlis">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Born
David Wheeler , ( 1963-03-20 ) 20 March 1963 (age 63) , Blackpool , Lancashire , England
Occupations
Actor filmmaker
Years active
1985–present
Spouses
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Partner s
Anna Friel , (2001–2010)

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Wikidata facts

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David Thewlis 2008.jpg
Height
1.89
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David Thewlis
date of birth
1963-03-20
start of work period
1985-00-00
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David Wheeler (born 20 March 1963), better known as David Thewlis (/ˈθjuːlɪs/), is an English actor and filmmaker. He has won one Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and received nominations for two BAFTA Awards, one Golden Globe Award, one Primetime Emmy Award, and one Screen Actors Guild Award.

Thewlis made his film debut in Little Dorrit (1987) and had his breakthrough with roles 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 appeared in films such as Black Beauty (1994), Restoration (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Dragonheart (1996), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998), Gangster No. 1 (2000), and as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter franchise (2004–2011). 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), Wonder Woman (2017), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), and Enola Holmes 2 (2022).

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