“Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.”

English actor and filmmaker

David Thewlis, born David Wheeler, is an English actor and filmmaker. He is known for his screen work and for a career that has brought him major festival recognition and several award nominations. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and was nominated for two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. His work is associated with acting first, with filmmaking also part of his professional identity.