Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1963-03-20
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Shooting Martha
- The Late Hector Kipling
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Film & TV
Acting · 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…
Known for
- Signal One2026
- Dirty Business — Ash Smith2026
- The Thing with Feathers — Crow (voice)2025
- Avatar: Fire and Ash — Peylak2025
- Sherlock & Daughter — Sherlock Holmes2025
- KAOS — Hades2024
- The Artful Dodger — Norbert Fagin2023
- Enola Holmes 2 — Grail2022
- The Amazing Maurice — Boss Man / Rat King (voice)2022
- Human Resources — Memory Bank Manager (voice)2022
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- 2,232
- Total plays
- 16,081
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David Thewlis (né Wheeler; born 20 March 1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire) is an English film, television and stage actor, as well as a writer. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/David+Thewlis">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
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- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 75,924x
- The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.
· 1986 · cited 62,811x
- Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
· 1981 · cited 60,430x
- Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
· 2009 · cited 57,832x
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Key facts
- Born
- David Wheeler , ( 1963-03-20 ) 20 March 1963 (age 63) , Blackpool , Lancashire , England
- Occupations
- Actor filmmaker
- Years active
- 1985–present
- Spouses
- Sara Sugarman ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1992 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1994 ) Hermine Poitou ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2016 )
- Partner s
- Anna Friel , (2001–2010)
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Key dates
- Born
- 20 March 1963
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Blackpool
- Spouse
- Sara Sugarman
- Occupation
- television actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- British English
- Genre
- Shakespearean comedy
Article
David Wheeler (born 20 March 1963), better known as David Thewlis (/ˈθjuːlɪs/), is an English actor and filmmaker. He has won one Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and received nominations for two BAFTA Awards, one Golden Globe Award, one Primetime Emmy Award, and one Screen Actors Guild Award.
Thewlis made his film debut in Little Dorrit (1987) and had his breakthrough with roles 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 appeared in films such as Black Beauty (1994), Restoration (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Dragonheart (1996), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998), Gangster No. 1 (2000), and as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter franchise (2004–2011). 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), Wonder Woman (2017), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), and Enola Holmes 2 (2022).
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