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David Thewlis (David Wheeler) was born on 20 March, 1963 in Blackpool, England, is an English actor (born 1963). Discover David Thewlis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

Popular As David Wheeler
Occupation Actor, filmmaker
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 20 March 1963
Birthday 20 March
Birthplace Blackpool, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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David Thewlis Height, Weight & Measurements

At 60 years old, David Thewlis height is 189 cm .

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Height 189 cm
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Who Is David Thewlis's Wife?

His wife is Sara Sugarman (m. 1992-1994) Hermine Poitou (m. 2016)

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Wife Sara Sugarman (m. 1992-1994) Hermine Poitou (m. 2016)
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Children 1

David Thewlis Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is David Thewlis worth at the age of 60 years old? David Thewlis’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated David Thewlis's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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1963

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 was born David Wheeler in Blackpool on 20 March 1963, the son of Maureen (née Thewlis) and Alec Raymond Wheeler.

His parents ran a toy and wallpaper shop.

He has an older and a younger sibling.

As a teenager, he played in a rock band called QED and played lead guitar with a punk rock band called Door 66.

He was educated at Highfield High School in Blackpool's Marton area.

1984

He later enrolled in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, graduating in 1984.

He changed his surname to Thewlis, his mother's maiden name, after attempting to register with the actors' union and discovering that his birth name was already being used by someone else.

His first professional role after doing so was in the play Buddy Holly at the Regal in Greenwich and in a commercial for Kellogg's Bran Flakes.

In theatre, Thewlis has starred in Sam Mendes' The Sea at the Royal National Theatre, Max Stafford-Clark's Ice Cream at the Royal Court Theatre, The Ruffian on the Stairs/The Woolley at Farnham, and The Lady and the Clarinet at the King's Head Theatre.

1985

He went on to play small roles in high-profile series such as BBC's Only Fools and Horses in 1985 and The Singing Detective in 1986, before being offered a more significant part in Alan Clarke's Road and in the ITV sitcom Valentine Park in 1987.

That same year Thewlis made his film debut in Little Dorrit.

1987

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.

1988

His first big-screen leading role was opposite Clive Owen in the little-seen Vroom directed by Beeban Kidron in 1988, and he then starred in Paul Greengrass's anti-Falklands drama Resurrected in 1989, playing a presumed-dead soldier who returns to Britain.

1990

He also collaborated with Mike Leigh on Life Is Sweet in 1990, in which he played Jane Horrocks' character's lover, licking chocolate sauce off her naked body.

During the 1990s, Thewlis appeared in a variety of films, mostly fantasy and period, including Restoration (1995), Black Beauty (1994), Total Eclipse (1995) with Leonardo DiCaprio, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), Dragonheart (1996), and Seven Years in Tibet (1997), opposite Brad Pitt.

1992

He continued playing low-key supporting roles in films such as Damage in 1992, directed by Louis Malle and The Trial in 1993 directed by David Hugh Jones.

1993

Thewlis's breakout role was 1993's Naked, as the main character, Johnny, a homeless, highly intelligent, embittered, rambling street philosopher, for which Thewlis was established as one of the great actors of his generation and named Best Actor by the National Society of Film Critics (United States), the London Film Critics Circle, the Evening Standard, the New York Film Critics' Circle and the Cannes Film Festival.

That same year, he appeared on television as a sexual predator named James Jackson in Prime Suspect 3, opposite Helen Mirren and Ciarán Hinds.

1994

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).

1998

He was nominated for a British Independent Film Award for Divorcing Jack (1998), and played Clov in a television film of Samuel Beckett's Endgame (2000).

Notable appearances also include Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged (1998), the Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski (1998), and Paul McGuigan's Gangster No. 1 (2000), opposite Paul Bettany and Malcolm McDowell.

He auditioned for the role of Quirinus Quirrell in the Chris Columbus directed film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but the part went to Ian Hart.

2004

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).

Despite missing out on the first film, he was cast in 2004 as Professor Remus Lupin in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

He did not have to audition as he was director Alfonso Cuarón's first choice for the role.

Thewlis reprised the role in four other films in the series.

He appeared as an SS Commandant of a Nazi death camp and father of the main character in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which was well received.

2005

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).

Other credits include Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Terrence Malick's The New World (2005), and The Omen (2006).

Thewlis played the late Dr Michael Aris, husband of Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma, with Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh as Suu Kyi, in the biopic The Lady directed by Luc Besson.

2012

In 2012, he received an International Festival of Independent Cinema Off Plus Camera Award.

In the same year, he also played in Separate We Come, Separate We Go, directed by Harry Potter co-star Bonnie Wright.

2015

In June 2015, Thewlis was reported to be filming scenes for a Donald Crowhurst biopic, The Mercy, on the beach at Teignmouth, Devon, playing Donald Crowhurst's press agent, Rodney Hallworth, while Colin Firth would play Donald Crowhurst.

He also starred in Regression, a thriller released in autumn 2015.

In September 2015, Thewlis starred as Inspector Goole in Helen Edmundson's BBC TV adaptation of J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls.

2017

Thewlis's 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 (2022–2023), Christopher Edwards in the HBO miniseries Landscapers (2021), John Dee in the Netflix drama series The Sandman (2022), and Fagin in the Disney+ tv series The Artful Dodger (2023).

His performance in Fargo earned him nominations for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Critics' Choice Award.