ACTOR

David Thewlis

1963 - Today

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David Wheeler (born 20 March 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Thewlis has received more than 11,976,681 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). David Thewlis is the 1,132nd most popular actor (down from 1,124th in 2019), the 1,219th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,250th in 2019) and the 162nd most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 12M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of David Thewlis by language

Over the past year David Thewlis has had the most page views in the with 1,373,917 views, followed by German (150,516), and Russian (117,156). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (285.49%), Kurdish (Sorani) (168.82%), and Sundanese (107.06%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, David Thewlis ranks 1,132 out of 13,578. Before him are Pedro Alonso, Robert Shaw, Pietro Germi, Nicole Garcia, Lee Majors, and Michael Fassbender. After him are Billy Dee Williams, Michel Bouquet, Otto Sander, Dana Elcar, Adrienne Lecouvreur, and Ciarán Hinds.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, David Thewlis ranks 65. Before him are Lolo Ferrari, Luis Arce, Junji Ito, Liu Cixin, Andrej Kiska, and Satoshi Kon. After him are Kevin Mitnick, Gaspar Noé, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steven Soderbergh, Jennifer Beals, and Seal.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Thewlis ranks 1,219 out of 8,785. Before him are Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763), Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1375), Alistair MacLean (1922), Ruth Rendell (1930), Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (1480), and Henry Thomas Buckle (1821). After him are Alasdair Gray (1934), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Black (1962), Stephen Hales (1677), Dave Evans (1953), and Jimmy Savile (1926).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, David Thewlis ranks 162. Before him are Robert Hardy (1925), Glenda Jackson (1936), Stephen Fry (1957), Emily Blunt (1983), Ray Stevenson (1964), and Robert Shaw (1927). After him are Ciarán Hinds (1953), James Faulkner (1948), Anthony Daniels (1946), Frances de la Tour (1944), Scott Adkins (1976), and Clive Owen (1964).

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