David Thewlis
David 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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 24.418 |
| Birthday | 1963-03-20 |
| Place of Birth | Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | 데이빗 듈리스, Дэвид Тьюлис, David Wheeler, 大卫·休里斯, |
1993
Naked
7.356/473
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
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Naked
1998
Divorcing Jack
5.964/22
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Divorcing Jack
2007
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
4/11
A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls in love with her, thinking he has found his muse, but...
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The Inner Life of Martin Frost
2003
Cheeky
6.5/6
Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a...
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Cheeky
2002
D.I.Y. Hard
8.7/3
A hostage situation takes an unusual turn.
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D.I.Y. Hard
2015
An Inspector Calls
7.435/200
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An Inspector Calls
2002
Hamilton Mattress
6.5/4
Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city.
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Hamilton Mattress
2011
How to Get a Head in Sculpture
8/1
From the heads of Roman Emperors to the 'blood head' of contemporary British artist Marc Quinn, the greatest figures in world sculpture have continual...
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2020
Guest of Honour
5.714/14
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Guest of Honour
2010
Athena
0/0
Chuck, a loner who had better days, runs a Halliday store in the middle of Californian desert. Customers are rare and he has only one regular, old Bil...
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Athena
2015
Anomalisa
7.128/1579
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
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Anomalisa
1988
Deep Red Instant Love
0/0
Budding romance and political subversion create a headache for the manager of Superstore in Rik Lander’s colourful satire on capitalism.
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Deep Red Instant Love
2009
Veronika Decides to Die
5.945/226
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Veronika Decides to Die
1995
Total Eclipse
6.418/478
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lif...
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Total Eclipse
1998
Besieged
6.7/55
When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric Engli...
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Besieged
2000
Endgame
7/5
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins....
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Endgame
2011
The Lady
6.844/228
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
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The Lady
2013
The Zero Theorem
6.094/1102
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The Zero Theorem
1991
Journey to Knock
0/0
Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.
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Journey to Knock
2013
Separate We Come, Separate We Go
6.5/1
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2020
Eternal Beauty
6.037/54
When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.
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Eternal Beauty
1997
Seven Years in Tibet
7.2/2592
Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, th...
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Seven Years in Tibet
2000
Gangster No. 1
6.445/190
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk a...
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Gangster No. 1
1996
DragonHeart
6.5/1821
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DragonHeart
1996
The Island of Dr. Moreau
4.86/476
A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to...
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
1994
Black Beauty
6.727/319
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
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Black Beauty
2011
Anonymous
6.4/681
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fac...
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Anonymous
2010
Mr. Nice
6.051/136
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as le...
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Mr. Nice
2010
London Boulevard
5.91/663
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London Boulevard
1989
Resurrected
5.654/13
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
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Resurrected
1988
Vroom
6.3/5
Two young men and a sultry divorcee flee their drab hometown existence, taking to the road in a bubblegum pink chevrolet.
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Vroom
2011
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
4/2
A cockroach with artistic aspirations follows an angst-ridden and talentless artist from pub to studio in pursuit of his dream, and comes to a sticky...
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The Organ Grinder's Monkey
2014
Stonehearst Asylum
6.848/1284
A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea...
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Stonehearst Asylum
1988
The Short & Curlies
6.375/24
A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor...
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The Short & Curlies
2015
Regression
5.577/1695
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John u...
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Regression
1997
American Perfekt
6.139/18
Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be m...
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American Perfekt
2018
The Mercy
5.925/255
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The Mercy
2015
Queen & Country
5.866/56
An Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War.
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Queen & Country
2017
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
7.217/83
A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story...
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Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
1991
Skulduggery
0/0
Four lads decide to meet up and do a robbery planned by Sweeny, an angry, agressive but small young man who is like a time bomb waiting to go off. The...
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Skulduggery
2022
The Amazing Maurice
6.96/112
Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of self-taught talking rats. When Maurice and the rode...
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The Amazing Maurice
2016
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
0/0
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's 2015 stop-motion animated drama Anomalisa.
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None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
2022
Enola Holmes 2
7.549/2162
Now a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl, as the sparks of a dangerous...
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Littlemouth
0/0
It tells the story of a computer scientist who is recruited by a tech billionaire to work on a project that could change humanity's place in the unive...
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Littlemouth
2006
The Omen
5.576/955
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
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The Omen
2005
Kingdom of Heaven
6.906/3768
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
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Kingdom of Heaven
2006
Basic Instinct 2
5.1/690
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, l...
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Basic Instinct 2
1995
Restoration
6.1/101
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel j...
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Restoration
2008
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
7.849/6537
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of t...
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
1991
Filipina Dreamgirls
8/2
Several men from Wales travel to the Philippines on an arranged tour to meet Filipina women for romance and possible marriage. None of the women are t...
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Filipina Dreamgirls
2013
The Fifth Estate
6.033/932
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the...
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The Fifth Estate
2015
Legend
7.033/3533
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using...
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Legend
2020
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
6.581/1720
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2003
Timeline
5.712/971
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century F...
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Timeline
2011
War Horse
7.3/3154
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey beg...
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War Horse
2021
Rare Beasts
5.636/22
Mandy is a mother, a writer, a nihilist. Mandy is a modern woman in a crisis. Raising a son in the midst of a female revolution, mining the pain of he...
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Rare Beasts
1990
Life Is Sweet
6.9/143
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Life Is Sweet
2014
The Theory of Everything
7.86/10064
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who fall...
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The Theory of Everything
2017
Wonder Woman
7.236/18945
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
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Wonder Woman
1993
The Trial
5.78/25
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The Trial
2005
The New World
6.5/1043
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
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The New World
2015
Macbeth
6.469/1365
Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power...
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Macbeth
2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
8.02/20025
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2025
Avatar 3
0/0
The third entry in the Avatar franchise.
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Avatar 3
2001
Goodbye Charlie Bright
6.278/18
Following Charlie Bright and his friends over one hot summer on the South London housing estate where they live. With Tommy about to join the army and...
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Goodbye Charlie Bright
2000
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
6.438/16
It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2013
RED 2
6.525/3744
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
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RED 2
2021
Val
7/131
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film a...
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Val
1997
The Making of 'DragonHeart'
7/1
This documentary was first released on the laserdisc for DragonHeart, and was then re-released on both the Collector's Edition and Franchise Collectio...
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The Making of 'DragonHeart'
1996
James and the Giant Peach
6.556/1194
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strang...
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James and the Giant Peach
1991
Afraid of the Dark
5.556/27
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
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Afraid of the Dark
1987
Road
6.846/13
A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world....
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Road
1998
The Big Lebowski
7.841/10384
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelc...
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The Big Lebowski
1992
Damage
6.593/400
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
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Damage
2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
6.091/11
Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. Learn from exclusive interviews with those who knew...
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7.697/18116
As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie wi...
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2000
The Miracle Maker
6.149/37
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spr...
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The Miracle Maker
2017
Justice League
6.098/12256
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisti...
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Justice League
2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
7.764/17770
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
7.686/18166
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Le...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
8.106/19174
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wiza...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2005
All the Invisible Children
7.1/60
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
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All the Invisible Children
1987
Little Dorrit
6.4/11
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young sea...
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Little Dorrit
2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
7.5/10
A 2004 documentary on the first three “Harry Potter” films detailing the behind-the-scenes journey of making them.
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The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
1992
Black and Blue
0/0
When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the w...
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Black and Blue
2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League
8.192/9187
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahu...
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