Cast & creator

David Thewlis

1963-03-20 (age 63) Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UKIMDb

Best known for Fargo, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Big Mouth

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.

Also known as: David Wheeler

Movies

102

film credits

Series

television credits

Career

128

1981–2026 · acting roles

Credit score

6.9

average across scored titles

Signature credits

Known for

Ordered by popularity

★ 8.3

Fargo

V.M. Vargas · 2014

★ 7.6

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Peylak · 2025

★ 7.6

Big Mouth

Shame Wizard (voice) · 2017

★ 7.6

Big Mouth

Lionel St. Swithens (voice) · 2017

★ 7.6

Big Mouth

Actor (voice) · 2017

Across film & television

Filmography (133)

Showing 133 of 133 credits

Series

★ 8.3

Fargo

V.M. Vargas

David Thewlis

Known for

Fargo

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Big Mouth

Big Mouth

Big Mouth

Filmography (133)

Fargo

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Big Mouth

Big Mouth

Big Mouth

Screen Two

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Kingdom of Heaven

The Sandman

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

ScreenPlay

ScreenPlay

The Singing Detective

Wonder Woman

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Justice League

Prime Suspect

The Artful Dodger

The Big Lebowski

Only Fools and Horses

Screen One

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Human Resources

Human Resources

Sherlock & Daughter

Seven Years in Tibet

Enola Holmes 2

The Theory of Everything

The Amazing Maurice

DragonHeart

KAOS

Stonehearst Asylum

War Horse

Signal One

RED 2

Legend

The Street

James and the Giant Peach

The New World

Basic Instinct 2

The Feed

The Fifth Estate

Timeline

Frank Stubbs Promotes

Dinotopia

Damage

Landscapers

Barkskins

The Mercy

The Omen

The Zero Theorem

The Island of Dr. Moreau

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Naked

Black Beauty

Total Eclipse

Regression

The Thing with Feathers

London Boulevard

Val

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Dirty Business

Summer Season

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Anomalisa

Macbeth

A Bit of a Do

Veronika Decides to Die

How to Get a Head in Sculpture