David Thewlis is known as a character actor and has appeared in a wide variety of genres in both film and television.
30 Facts About David Thewlis
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David Thewlis has received Cannes Film Festival Award and nominations for two BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Award, Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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David Thewlis then appeared in films such as Black Beauty, Restoration, James and the Giant Peach, Dragonheart, and Seven Years in Tibet.
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David Thewlis has an older sibling and a younger sibling.
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David Thewlis was educated at Highfield High School in Blackpool's Marton area.
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David Thewlis later enrolled in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, graduating in 1984.
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David Thewlis 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.
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David Thewlis 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 sitcom ITV's Valentine Park in 1987.
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Seame year David Thewlis made his film debut in Little Dorrit.
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David Thewlis collaborated with Mike Leigh on Life Is Sweet in 1990, in which he played Jane Horrocks' character lover, licking chocolate sauce off her naked body.
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David Thewlis 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.
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David Thewlis was nominated for a British Independent Film Award for Divorcing Jack, and played Clov in a television film of Samuel Beckett's Endgame.
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David Thewlis 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.
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David Thewlis did not have to audition as he was director Alfonso Cuaron's first choice for the role.
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David Thewlis reprised the role in four other films in the series.
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David Thewlis 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.
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David 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.
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In June 2015, David 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 is playing Donald Crowhurst.
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David Thewlis starred in Regression, a thriller released in autumn 2015.
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In September 2015, Thewlis starred as Inspector Goole in Helen Edmundson's BBC TV adaptation of J B Priestley's An Inspector Calls.
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David Thewlis portrayed Ares in Wonder Woman, the DC Comics film featuring the character of the same name.
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David Thewlis briefly reprised his role as Ares in Justice League.
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David Thewlis's performance was critically acclaimed, and earned him nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award, Critics' Choice Television Award and Golden Globe Award as a supporting actor.
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David Thewlis starred in the Netflix film I'm Thinking of Ending Things, the HBO miniseries Landscapers, and the Netflix drama series The Sandman, Enola Holmes 2 and voiced in The Amazing Maurice.
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David Thewlis directed Hello, Hello, Hello in 1995, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film.
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David Thewlis wrote, directed and starred in the feature Cheeky.
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David Thewlis was married to Welsh director and actress Sara Sugarman from 1992 until 1994.
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David Thewlis then had a relationship with the English actress Kate Hardie for 3 years.
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David Thewlis was in a relationship with the English actress Anna Friel from 2001 until late 2010.
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David Thewlis married the French designer and artist Hermine Poitou on 5 August 2016.