Damian Lewis
Damian Lewis was born in St John's Wood, England, United Kingdom on February 11th, 1971 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 53, Damian Lewis biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Damian Watcyn Lewis (born 11 February 1971) is an English actor and producer.
Major Richard Winters of the United States Army appeared in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, earning him a Golden Globe nomination, as well as portrayed US Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime film Homeland (which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award).
His success in Wolf Hall earned him his third Primetime Emmy nomination and his fourth Golden Globe nomination.
In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) directed by Quentin Tarantino, he currently plays Bobby Axelrod in the showtime series Billions (2016–present) and portrayed actor Steve McQueen.
Early life
Lewis was born in St John's Wood, London, the eldest son of Charlotte Mary (née Bowater) and John Watcyn Lewis, a city insurance broker for Lloyd's, was born on February 11, 1971. His paternal grandparents were Welsh. Sir Ian Bowater, Lord Mayor of London, and Bertrand, Viscount Dawson of Penn (a surgeon to the Royal Family) and philanthropist Sir Alfred Yarrow were among his maternal ancestors, including partial Sephardic Jewish descendent Sir Alfred Yarrow. He has said he "went to English boarding schools and grew up around [his character] Soames and in a culture very similar to the Forsytes."
Lewis, a young boy, travelled to the United States repeatedly to visit relatives during summer breaks. At the age of 16, he first decided to become an actor. He was educated at both Ashdown House School in Forest Row, East Sussex, and Eton College. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1993, after which he spent time with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
He appeared in Borgheim's production of Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf and Posthumus in William Shakespeare's Cymbeline during his time in the RSC. In November 2005, he appeared in another of Ibsen's plays, as Karsten Bernick in Pillars of the Community at the National Theatre.
Personal life
Following a motorcycle crash in North London in 1998, Lewis suffered a period of depression.
Lewis married Helen McCrory on July 4, 2007 having previously dated Katie Razzall, Kristin Davis, and Sophia Myles. They have a daughter, Manon (born 2006), and a son, Gulliver (born 2007). McCrory died of cancer on April 16, 2021, at the age of 52.
Lewis and his family left the United Kingdom in 2007 to live in Los Angeles while he was on the NBC-TV crime drama Life. They returned to the United Kingdom to live in a Victorian townhouse in Tufnell Park, north London, following the conclusion of the series's last episode in 2009. They also have a house in Sudbury, Suffolk, which is located in Sudbury.
Lewis was the charity's trade justice ambassador in 2010. He competed for England in Soccer Aid in May and June 2018, and he competed golf for Europe in the All*Star Cup in August 2006. Both were broadcast on ITV.
Lewis is a fan of Liverpool FC.C.
Lewis and McCrory supported Feed NHS, a charity that would bring food from high street restaurants to NHS workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. They had raised £1 million for the charity by April 2020. Following its success, the initiative in London was launched in London, but plans were soon revealed to roll it out to other cities in the United Kingdom.
Career
Lewis once worked as a telemarketer selling car alarms, a job he detested. His first television appearance was as a rakish student in an early episode of the drama series A Touch of Frost (1996). He appeared in Robinson Crusoe (1997) as Patrick Conner. He appeared in Jonathan Kent's production of Hamlet, playing Laertes. This production was seen by Steven Spielberg, who later cast Lewis as Richard Winters in Band of Brothers (2001), the first role of several that required him to have a credible American accent.
He was in the 2000 series called Hearts and Bones as the love interest of Dervla Kirwan.
Subsequently, Lewis portrayed Soames Forsyte in the ITV series The Forsyte Saga, which earned him positive reviews. He returned to the US to star in Dreamcatcher, a Lawrence Kasdan film about a man who becomes possessed by an evil alien. The character is American but when possessed he takes on a British accent. On the heels of this role, he starred in Keane as a Manhattanite with a fragile mental state who is searching for his missing daughter. Despite the film's poor box-office, Lewis's performance in the role was very well reviewed.
He played Jeffrey Archer in the TV special Jeffrey Archer: The Truth. Since 2004, he has appeared in a number of films, as well as the 2005 BBC TV adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing, as part of the ShakespeaRe-Told season. Lewis played the role of Yassen Gregorovich in the film Stormbreaker. In 2006, he appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's BBC drama Friends and Crocodiles. He has appeared on BBC's Have I Got News for You as guest host several times; on 10 November 2006, 1 May 2009, 18 November 2010, 27 April 9 November 2012 and 31 October 2014.
In 2008, Lewis starred as the main character Charlie Crews in the American television series Life on NBC. The show premiered in the US on 26 September 2007 and was affected by the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. Only half of the first season's shows were produced. Regardless, the show won a 2008 AFI Award for best television series. Although the show received critical acclaim, when it returned the following television season, it was shuffled from night to night, and eventually cancelled by NBC to clear its time slot for the less expensive nightly programme, The Jay Leno Show.
Lewis appeared, the following year, in the lead role in The Baker, a film directed by his brother, Gareth. Damian took a supporting role of Rizza in The Escapist, which he also helped produce. He led the cast in Martin Crimp's version of Molière's comedy, The Misanthrope, which opened in December 2009 at the Comedy Theatre, London. Other cast members included Tara Fitzgerald, Keira Knightley and Dominic Rowan.
Lewis played Tory Prime Minister Simon Laity in two seasons of Number 10 on BBC Radio 4.
He played Gareth, the father of an 11-year-old Liverpool F.C. fan, in the 2011 film Will.
From 2011 to 2013, Lewis had a starring role as Gunnery Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series Homeland. In 2013, he narrated poetry for The Love Book App, an "interactive anthology of love literature developed by Allie Byrne Esiri".
From 2016 to 2021, he starred as billionaire hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod in the Showtime series Billions.