David Thewlis

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1963-03-20 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

David Thewlis

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 (19...

Acting

1997

Seven Years in Tibet

as Peter Aufschnaiter

2005

Kingdom of Heaven

as Hospitaler

2006

The Omen

as Keith Jennings

1996

James and the Giant Peach

as Earthworm (voice)

2006

Basic Instinct 2

as Roy Washburn

2000

Gangster No. 1

as Freddie Mays

2022

1992

Damage

as Detective

2000

The Miracle Maker

as Judas Iscariot (voice)

1993

Naked

as Johnny

2001

Goodbye Charlie Bright

as Charlie's Dad

1996

DragonHeart

as King Einon

2003

Timeline

as Robert Doniger

2009

1995

Restoration

as John Pearce

1994

Black Beauty

as Jerry Barker

1995

Total Eclipse

as Paul Verlaine

1990

Life Is Sweet

as Nicola's Lover

1991

Afraid of the Dark

as Locksmith / Tom Miller

2011

Anonymous

as William Cecil

1998

Divorcing Jack

as Dan Starkey

1998

Besieged

as Jason Kinsky

2005

All the Invisible Children

as Jonathan (segment "Jonathan")

2010

Mr. Nice

as Jim McCann

2000

Endgame

as Clov

2010

1993

The Trial

as Franz

2011

War Horse

as Lyons

1989

Resurrected

as Kevin Deakin

2011

The Lady

as Michael Aris

2003

Cheeky

as Harry Sankey

2013

RED 2

as The Frog

2013

1991

Filipina Dreamgirls

as Tim Shanks

2013

The Fifth Estate

as Nick Davies

2002

1987

Road

as Joey

1988

Vroom

as Ringe

2005

The New World

as Wingfield

2014

Queen & Country

as Sargeant Major Bradley

2014

The Theory of Everything

as Dennis Sciama

2015

Macbeth

as Duncan

2015

Regression

as Professor Kenneth Raines

2011

2014

Stonehearst Asylum

as Mickey Finn

2012

2015

Legend

as Leslie Payne

1998

The Big Lebowski

as Knox Harrington

2015

An Inspector Calls

as Inspector Goole - The Inspector

1999

Love Story

as Dealer

2014

Sunday Roast

as Dick Puck

2003

Little Wolf's Book of Badness

as Mr. Twister (voice)

2017

Wonder Woman

as Sir Patrick / Ares

1991

1997

2018

The Mercy

as Rodney Hallworth

1987

Little Dorrit

as George Braddle

2002

Hamilton Mattress

as Hamilton Mattress (voice)

2002

Dinotopia

as Cyrus Crabb

2017

2020

2020

2021

1991

1992

Black and Blue

as Crematorium Attendant

2010

Athena

as Chuck

2015

Anomalisa

as Michael Stone (voice)

2022

The Amazing Maurice

as Boss Man / Rat King (voice)

2021

Val

as Self (archive footage)

2025

Production

1995

1995

2003

Cheeky

as Director

2003

Cheeky

as Writer

2014

Sunday Roast

as Writer

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