David Thewlis was born David Wheeler on 20 March 1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire, the second of three children of Maureen (née Thewlis) and Alec Raymond Wheeler. His most commercially successful roles to date have been of Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series and Ares in Wonder Woman. Other notable performances include the films Naked (for which he won the Best Actor award at Cannes Film Festival), Dragonheart, Seven Years in Tibet, The Big Lebowski, Kingdom of Heaven, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, War Horse, The Theory of Everything, and Macbeth. He has also done voice work in the films James and the Giant Peach (1996), The Miracle Maker (2000), and Anomalisa (2015). Thewlis has combined major motion picture work with prominent television roles, including playing Cyrus Crabb in the television miniseries Dinotopia and antagonist V.M. Varga in the third season of Fargo.

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