David Thewlis

Highest Rated:
100% Life Is Sweet (1990)
Lowest Rated:
7% Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Birthday:
Mar 20, 1963
Birthplace:
Blackpool, UK
Bio:
The second of three children, David Thewlis grew up in an apartment above his family's combination toy store and wallpaper shop. He received his training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. A veteran of the London stage and English television (Prime Suspect 3), Thewlis found his particular…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 7% - 100%
Number of Movies: 52
Box Office Since 2001: $1752.1M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 Red 2
  • Actor
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2013 The Fifth Estate
  • Actor
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2013 Untitled Wikileaks/HBO Project
  • Actor
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2012 Endgame
  • Actor
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2012 33% The Lady
  • Michael Aris
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2011 33% London Boulevard
  • Jordan
$10.5k
2011 77% War Horse
  • Lyons
$79.9M
2011 47% Anonymous
  • William Cecil
$4.5M
2011 96% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
  • Remus Lupin
$381.0M
2010 55% Mr. Nice
  • Jim McCann
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2010 78% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1
  • Remus Lupin
$295.0M
2009 84% Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Remus Lupin
$301.9M
2009 Veronika Decides to Die
  • Actor
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2008 63% The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas)
  • Bruno's Father
$9.0M
2007 10% The Inner Life of Martin Frost
  • Martin Frost
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2007 79% Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Remus Lupin
$292.0M
2006 27% The Omen
  • Keith Jennings
$54.5M
2006 7% Basic Instinct 2
  • Det. Roy Washburn
$5.9M
2005 All the Invisible Children
  • Actor
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2005 39% Kingdom of Heaven
  • Hospitaler
$47.3M
2005 61% The New World
  • Capt. Edward Wingfield
$12.5M
2004 91% Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Remus Lupin
$249.4M
2003 Cheeky
  • Screenwriter
  • Actor
  • Director
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2003 12% Timeline
  • Robert Doniger
$19.4M
2002 Dandelion Dead
  • Oswald
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2001 Divorcing Jack
  • Actor
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2001 Hamilton Mattress
  • Actor
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2001 Goodbye Charlie Bright
  • Charlie's Dad
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2000 73% Gangster No. 1
  • Freddie Mays
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2000 The Miracle Maker
  • Actor
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1999 40% Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
  • Nesbit
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1998 75% Besieged
  • Jason Kinsky
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1998 Divorcing Jack
  • Dan Starkey
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1998 80% The Big Lebowski
  • Knox Harrington
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1997 American Perfekt
  • Santini
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1997 61% Seven Years in Tibet
  • Peter Aufschnaiter
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1996 Dragonheart: 2 Legendary Tales
  • Actor
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1996 93% James and the Giant Peach
  • Earthworm
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1996 69% Restoration
  • John Pearce
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1996 23% The Island of Dr. Moreau
  • Douglas
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1995 25% Total Eclipse
  • Paul Verlaine
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1994 78% Black Beauty
  • Jerry Barker
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1993 33% The Trial
  • Franz
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1993 88% Naked
  • Johnny
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1992 Afraid of the Dark
  • Tom Miller/Locksmith
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1992 80% Damage
  • Detective
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1990 100% Life Is Sweet
  • Nicola's Lover
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1988 Resurrected
  • Kevin Deakin
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1988 Little Dorrit (Nobody's Fault) (Little Dorrit's Story)
  • George Braddle
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1988 Vroom
  • Ringe
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1987 The Short & Curlies
  • Actor
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1986 50% Dragonheart
  • King Einon
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David Thewlis Trivia

Was banned from entering China because of his role in "Seven Years in Tibet".
- submitted by Lindsay Elizabeth M (2 years ago)

Quotes from David Thewlis's Characters

    1. Earthworm: You said you've been to Bora-Bora.
    2. Centipede: Well not Bora-Bora per se.
    3. Spider: What about the shores of Tripoli?
    4. Centipede: Did I say Tripoli? I meant the Halls of of Montezuma.
    From James and the Giant Peach. Submitted by Miles F (10 months ago)
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