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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
Sheldon Hoffman
for Sheldon Hoffman in The Confession
Suggested by sepanta_kazemi
On a freezing winter night, a mysterious hitman known as The Confessor steps into a quiet church and demands that a priest hear his confession. What begins as a tense, uneasy exchange quickly turns into a psychological duel as the two men argue about guilt, punishment, morality, and faith. Through fragmented glimpses of the hitman’s past, it becomes clear that he has lived a life shaped by violence but also unexpected moments of restraint. The priest challenges him, searching for a spark of remorse, while the hitman pushes back, determined to expose uncomfortable truths about human nature—and about the priest himself. As the night unfolds, their conversation grows darker and more personal, building toward a revelation that forces both men to confront the deepest parts of who they are. By the time the confession ends, neither the priest nor the confessor will leave the encounter unchanged.
