The Theory of Everything (2014)
James Marsh's 2014 Stephen Hawking biopic. Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor.
David Thewlis won Best Actor at Cannes for Naked, playing Johnny, a man of genuine intelligence and complete cruelty who talks continuously for two hours. It is one of the most demanding lead performances in British cinema.
He then worked steadily in a range that includes Harry Potter, Wonder Woman, The Theory of Everything and Fargo, where his Varga is quietly one of the more unsettling television villains.
He voiced the puppet in Anomalisa, which requires an entire performance through animation.
He has also written two novels, and works regularly with Mike Leigh in the improvisational method that produced Naked.
Charlie CoxJames Marsh's 2014 Stephen Hawking biopic. Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor.
Brendan GleesonKingdom of Heaven is two different films. The theatrical cut is a confused 144-minute medieval action movie that critics dismissed and audiences ignored.
Ben KingsleyThe film adapts Roald Dahl's 1961 children's novel about an orphan who escapes his abusive aunts by climbing inside a magically enormous peach and floating across the Atlantic with a crew of human-sized talking insects. The film made approximately twenty-nine…
David ThewlisDennis Quaid plays Bowen, a former knight of the old code who hunts dragons for a living after his pupil grew up to be a tyrant. The film made approximately one hundred and fifteen million dollars worldwide on a fifty-seven…
Chris PineAllan Heinberg wrote the screenplay from a story by Heinberg, Zack Snyder, and Jason Fuchs. Patty Jenkins had previously directed Monster in 2003, the production that won Charlize Theron her Academy Award for Best Actress.
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