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 (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.
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Enola Holmes 2
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English )
Artist:
Millie Bobby Brown
,
Henry Cavill
,
Louis Partridge
,
Helena Bonham Carter
,
Susan Wokoma
Director:
Harry Bradbeer
Release date:
04-11-2022
La Liga de la Justicia de Zack Snyder
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English )
Director:
Junkie XL
,
Brett Schlaman
,
Clay Enos
,
Gregor Wilson
,
Jolie Stanford
,
Theo Morton
,
Jack Jagodka
Music Director:
Chris Terrio
Release date:
18-03-2021
Justice League
(
English )
Director:
Zack Snyder
,
Joss Whedon
,
Willem Dafoe
,
Joss Whedon
,
Rebecca Sheridan
,
Lee Anne Muldoon
,
Eric Dvorsky
,
Will Handley
Music Director:
Junkie XL
,
Stephen Murphy
Release date:
17-11-2017
Legend
(
English )
Director:
Brian Helgeland
,
Bob Cryer
Music Director:
Tom Conroy
Release date:
04-12-2015
The Zero Theorem
(
English )
Director:
Pat Rushin
,
Sorina Dumitru
,
Cătălin Cățoiu
Music Director:
Nicola Pecorini
Release date:
14-03-2014
The Lady
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English )
Artist:
Jonathan Raggett
,
Jonathan Woodhouse
,
Benedict Wong
,
Susan Wooldridge
,
Flint Bangkok
Director:
Julien Rey
Music Director:
Jane Robertson
Release date:
30-12-2011
War Horse
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English )
Director:
Michael Kahn
,
Irfan Hussein
Music Director:
Neil Lamont
Release date:
25-12-2011
Anonymous
(
English )
Director:
John Orloff
Music Director:
Anna Foerster
,
Peter R. Adam
Release date:
28-10-2011
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