“and you play things a little bit grotesque. I’m never concerned with making myself look good.”
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David Thewlis
David Wheeler, better known as David Thewlis, 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.
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entertainment · English actor (born 1963) · actor · voice actor · stage actor · film actor · film director · television actor · also David Thewlis, David Wheeler, Thewlis
Born 20 March 1963 · Q212790
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I’m quite private. Going to work is my social life. Especially on British film sets. There’s a lot of wonderful humour around.
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2026· 10 entries
“I’m quite private. Going to work is my social life. Especially on British film sets. There’s a lot of wonderful humour around.”
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“This character Betty becomes lost in an improvised character. She immersed herself so deeply she didn’t know who she was. So it was more about my experience on Naked – something cathartic from decades ago was coming out.”
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“I maybe used to take myself too seriously. I thought I was something I wasn’t. But I think I’m much closer to myself now, in all respects.”
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“We were with her son who hadn”
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“s husband, Michael Aris, in the film. The actor has previously starred in The Omen, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas and five of the Harry Potter films. Filmed in secret Given the controversial subject of the movie, Thewlis says they tried to keep the filming low-key. Image source, Getty Images Image caption, David Thewlis stars alongside Michelle Yeoh in The Lady”
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“We shot it in Bangkok, keeping it from the Burmese authorities. We had to enter the country under false pretences saying we were making a different film.”
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The Guardian: Signal One review – Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis ballast high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn
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Yahoo: David Thewlis Doesn't Want to Revisit “Harry Potter”: 'Sick of Talking About It, Quite Honestly'
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2025· 2 entries
TVLine: What To Watch: David Thewlis Is The CW's Sherlock Holmes, Abbott Elementary Finale And More
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collider: David Thewlis’ Highly Anticipated Sherlock Holmes Series Sets Release Date
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2023· 1 entry
Played Fagin in The Artful Dodger, and in 2024, Hades in Kaos
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2022· 1 entry
The Cheat Sheet: ‘The Sandman’: Where You’ve Seen John Dee Actor David Thewlis Before
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2021· 6 entries
The Guardian: Landscapers review – Olivia Colman and David Thewlis stun as killer couple on the run
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The Guardian: TV tonight: Olivia Colman and David Thewlis star as two killers on the run
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The Guardian: David Thewlis on new show Landscapers and the misogyny of Naked: ‘I find it much tougher to watch today’
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Yahoo: 'Landscapers' star David Thewlis wonders what real people who inspired drama would think of it
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The Guardian: Shooting Martha by David Thewlis review – clunky film-world farce
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The Guardian: David Thewlis: ‘It does get to you, spending more waking hours as a character than oneself’
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2020· 1 entry
The Film Stage: Sally Hawkins and David Thewlis Lead First Trailer for Craig Roberts’ Eternal Beauty
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2012· 1 entry
Received an International Festival of Independent Cinema Off Plus Camera Award
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2004· 1 entry
As Professor Remus Lupin in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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2000· 1 entry
And they had a daughter in 2005 before they split up in 2010
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1995· 1 entry
For which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film at the 49th British Academy Film Awards
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1994· 1 entry
“I get cast as either extremely awful, terrible and cruel – or extremely good and saintly. In Kingdom of Heaven, I’m adorable.”
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1988· 1 entry
And he starred in Paul Greengrass's anti-Falkland War drama Resurrected (1989), playing a presumed-dead soldier who returns to Britain
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-03-20.
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