David Wheeler born 20 March 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 20042011 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 Im Thinking of Ending Things 2020 and Enola Holmes 2 2022 Thewlis most notable television roles include V M Varga in the third season of FXs Fargo 2017 the voice of the Shame Wizard in the Netflix animated sitcoms Big Mouth 2017present and Human Resources 2022present 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
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