David Thewlis Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

David Thewlis
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

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PERSONAL DATA OF DAVID THEWLIS

Age: 58 years old
Height: 189 cm
Born in: Blackpool, Great Britain
Born on: 20/03/1963

BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID THEWLIS

David Thewlis is born David Wheeler the March 20, 1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire, where he graduated from Highfield High School in 1984. Although he had concentrated heavily on music in his teens, he enrolled at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He made his debut on the small screen, participating in an episode of the fourth season of Only Fools and Horses (1985) as a young aspiring musician, followed by episodes of other sitcoms.

In 1987 he starred in the short film The Short & Curlies of Mike Leigh and at the end of the 80s he made his debut in the cinema appearing in some films, but it is with Leigh that he receives the leading role in Naked – Naked, a comedy-drama presented in competition at the 46th Cannes Film Festival, where Thewlis won the award for Best Male Performance. This role, which has earned him many awards, was a springboard for the nineties, not only for the different jobs done on TV, but above all for what concerns the cinema. Thewlis is directed by Agnieszka Holland in Poets from Hell (1995), a film that tells the cursed love between poets Paul Verlaine, played by the British actor, and Arthur Rimbaud, who has the face of Leonardo Dicaprio. The following year he voices Mr. Earthworm in the animated film James and the giant peach (1996) of Henry Selick, is the protagonist of horror The lost island (1996) and the antagonist of Dennis Quaid in the fantastic Dragonheart (1996).

Thewlis and Brad Pitt I’m Peter Aufschnaiter and Heinrich Harrer, two Austrian climbers who were imprisoned during an expedition by some British soldiers, in the bio-pic Seven years in Tibet (1997) of Jean-Jacques Annaud, a film of a certain depth in the artist’s career, but which after its release cost him a ban on entering China. The actor, who until now had focused more on the interpretation of fantasy and historical films, in the second half of the 90s begins to take part in other genres, such as comedy The Big Lebowski (1998) of Joel Coen ed Ethan Coen and the dramatic The siege (1998) of Bernardo Bertolucci. The 2000s, which began with the role of the criminal Freddy Mays in Gangster n. 1 (2000), mark for Thewlis the entry into the cast of the saga of Harry Potter, starting with the third episode, like Remus Lupine, Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, although he initially showed up for the casting of the character of Quirinus Raptor. On TV takes part in Dinotopia (2002), TV series in which he is the perfidious Cyrus Crabb, while he continues his climb, now no longer uphill, in the world of cinema, alongside Orlando Bloom in the colossal of Ridley Scott The Crusades – Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and Colin Farrell in The New World – The new world (2005) of Terrence Malick, centered on the history of Pocahontas.

Inspector of Scotland Yard in Basic Instinct 2 (2006), a victim photographer of the Antichrist in Omen – The omen (2006), Thewlis is in 2007 the protagonist of Martin Frost’s Inner Life and in 2008 the Nazi officer Bruno’s father, the young German, in The boy in the striped pajamas. The second decade of the third millennium is full of commitments, the actor works incessantly, in addition to the last two chapters of Harry Potter, on many films; at the beginning of the decade, above all historical or biographical films, such as Mr. Nice (2010), Anonymous (2011),War Horse (2011), The fifth power (2013) and The theory of everything (2014).

However, Thewlis’ interpretations also stand out in other types of films, from the thriller Stonehearst Asylum (2014) to the literary Macbeth (2015), passing through the gangster movie Legend (2015) and again competing with the animation in Anomalisa (2015). While in 2017 his curriculum also collects a cinecomic, the first with a woman protagonist, Wonder Woman (2017), in which Ares is the god of war, and the third season of Fargo, where is one of the main characters, the businessman VM Varga. The following year supports Colin Firth is Rachel Weisz in the bio-pic, the umpteenth of his career, The Donald C., an English businessman who took part in the first edition of the Golden Globe Race in 1968.