David Thewlis

Actor

Born: March 20, 1963 (age 63)
From: 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…

Filmography (97)

Signal One (2026)
Perry
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
Peylak
The Thing with Feathers (2025)
Crow (voice)
The Amazing Maurice (2022)
Boss Man / Rat King (voice)
Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
Grail
Rare Beasts (2021)
Vic
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Ares
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Father
Eternal Beauty (2020)
Mike
Guest of Honour (2020)
Jim
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal (2018)
Self (archive footage)
The Mercy (2018)
Rodney Hallworth
Justice League (2017)
Ares
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic (2017)
Himself
Wonder Woman (2017)
Sir Patrick / Ares
None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa (2016)
Self
Anomalisa (2015)
Michael Stone (voice)
Regression (2015)
Professor Kenneth Raines
Macbeth (2015)
Duncan
An Inspector Calls (2015)
Inspector Goole - The Inspector
Legend (2015)
Leslie Payne
Queen & Country (2015)
Sargeant Major Bradley
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Dennis Sciama
Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
Mickey Finn
Sunday Roast
Sunday Roast (2014)
Dick Puck
Separate We Come, Separate We Go (2013)
Norman
The Fifth Estate (2013)
Nick Davies
The Zero Theorem (2013)
Joby
RED 2 (2013)
The Frog
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
(archive footage)