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David Thewlis was born 20 March 1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. Mr. Thewlis will be portraying Professor Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter series.
For his role in Mike Leigh’s Naked David Thewlis received the National Society of Film Critics Award, the New York Film Critics Award, the London Film Critics Award and a prize at the Cannes Festival. He played the part of Johnny, who left Manchester for London only to find that he couldn’t run away from his own apocalyptic vision of mankind. He survives only by virtue of his sharp, sardonic wit which provides the comic relief in the face of the impending doom e.g. “I sent off for one of those little linguaphone packages ‘Talk Shite in a Fortnight’. It’s going very well. I haven’t quite got the hang of the transitive verbs yet.”
Maybe that role was just too perfect for him, as he appears to be suffering from Richard E. Grant syndrome (see Withnail and I), in that his one outstanding part renders all subsequent roles lightweight by comparison.
David Thewlis even made it to Hollywood in such films as The Island of Dr. Monroe (in his own words: a dreadful experience, a dreadful film) and in 7 Years in Tibet along the likes of Brad Pitt.
In the British comedy Whatever happened to Harold Smith? he had the opportunity to prove his comic talent and his impeccable dress-sense by parading round in a purple shirt and matching moustache. In Divorcing Jack, a black satiric comedy-thriller set in Belfast, he played a journalist who gets caught up in a murder and ends up being chased by all and sundry. His only ally is Rachel Griffith, who plays a gun toting nun. As you can imagine “hilarity ensues”. (source: Alternative Hollywood)
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