David Thewlis (born David Wheeler March 20, 1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England) is an English actor.

Thewlis exposed at a Guildhall School of Drama around London. His number one major film role wwhen as a rambling street philosopher Johnny around Naked (1993; dir. Mike Leigh), for which he was named better actor per New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics (United States), a London Critics Circle, the Evening Standard, and a Cannes Film Festival. A equivalent month he appeared within television when a intimate predator James Jackson in Prime Suspect 3, opposite Helen Mirren and Ciaran Hinds.

Through the Nineties, Thewlis appeared within the kind of films, mostly fantasy and period, including Restoration (1995), Total Eclipse (1995) with Leonardo DiCaprio, Dragonheart (1996), and Seven Years in Tibet (1997), opposite Brad Pitt (because of this film, Thewlis is barred from typing China). He was nominated for the British Independent Film Award for Divorcing Jack (1998), and played Clov in a (2000) television film of Samuel Beckett's Endgame. Notable appearances as well include Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged (1998) and Paul McGuigan's Gangster No. 1 (2000), opposite Malcolm McDowell. Within 2004 he starred as Remus Lupin in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (dir. Alfonso Cuaron), and he is placed to pop up inside Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005), and Terrence Malick's The New World (2005).

As the director, he was nominated for a BAFTA for best short film for How-do-you-do, How-do-you-do, Hi (1995); he has also written, directed & starred in the feature Brash (2003).

Around 1992 he married director Sara Sugarman; they divorced inside 1993. He is presently dwelling by using a actress Anna Friel. Their girl Gracie was natural in 9 July 2005 in London, England.

Selected Filmography
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction (2006) The New World (2005) Kingdom of Heaven (2005) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) Timeline (2003) Gangster No. 1 (2000) The Miracle Maker (2000) (TV) (voice) Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999) Divorcing Jack (1998) The Big Lebowski (1998) Seven Years in Tibet (1997) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) Dragonheart (1996) James and the Giant Peach (1996) (voice) Restoration (1995) Total Eclipse (1995) Black Beauty (1994) Prime Suspect3 (1993) (TV) Naked (1993) Life Is Sweet (1990) Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (1990) (TV) Little Dorrit (1988) The Singing Detective (1986) (miniseries)