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David Wheeler (born March 20, 1963), better known as David Thewlis, is an English actor and filmmaker. He is known as a character actor and has appeared in a wide variety of genres in both film and television. He has received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and nominations for two BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Award, Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Thewlis made his film debut in Little Dorrit (1987) and acted in the Mike Leigh films Life is Sweet (1990) and Naked (1993), winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for the latter. He then appeared in films such as Black Beauty (1994), Restoration (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Dragonheart (1996), and Seven Years in Tibet (1997). He became more widely known to film audiences for his roles as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter franchise (2004–2011) and Ares / Sir Patrick Morgan in Wonder Woman (2017). Other film roles include Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Anomalisa (2015), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), and Enola Holmes 2 (2022). Thewlis' most notable television roles include V. M. Varga in the third season of FX's Fargo (2017), the voice of the Shame Wizard in the Netflix animated sitcoms Big Mouth (2017–present) and Human Resources (2022–present), Christopher Edwards in the HBO miniseries Landscapers (2021), and John Dee in the Netflix drama series The Sandman (2022). His performance in Fargo earned him nominations for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Critics' Choice Award.
David Thewlis
Professor X
for Professor X in Fancasting the X-Men for the MCU
Suggested by george_warner
Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr know each other from protests to abolish the Jim Crow laws like the march on Washington. Charles and Erik are both African Americans with Charles being from New York and Erik from Georgia. Erik suffered greatly from the harsh racism of the american south and Charles did not, but Charles always wants to help a cause he believes in. After Brown v Board of Education America moved on to another thing to blame their problems on... THE MUTANTS. Erik saw this as a sign that humanity would never get better and will always find another thing to hate and that a more evolved species of humans wouldn't have such prejudices, knowing he and Charles were both mutants he went to Charles and asked him to join him when Charles declines Erik uses his mutant ability to control metal and Charles uses his powerful telepathy and they fight but it is no use because in the end Erik paralyzes Charles and leaves him. Charles later founded a school for mutants where he and some fellow mutants like Dr. Hank McCoy educate the young mutants so they can learn to control their powers and so that they are not discriminated against by their non-mutant peers. Erik has been planning an attack on the governments of the world so that mutants can take their place as "Homo Superior" The X-Men fight and win and boom we have an X-men movie.
