Lee Mead
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Lee Stephen Mead (born 14 July 1981) is an English musical theatre and television actor best known for winning the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 2007 and the BBC TV cast show Any Dream Will Do.
Mead has pursued a career in music, as well as in subsequent West End roles in Wicked, Legally Blonde: The Musical and The West End Men, releasing three solo albums and appearing on tour shows in the United Kingdom and Japan. He appeared in the cast of BBC One's Casualty, playing Ben 'Lofty' Chiltern, and he continued to tour the UK with his band during filming duties.
In the United Kingdom Tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Bang, Caractacus Potts returned to the stage in May 2016 as Caractacus Potts.
He returned to Lofty in 2017, but not in Casualty's sibling drama, The BBC One drama Holby City.
At the Annual Remembrance Day commemoration service at The Royal Albert Hall on November 9th, 2019, Lee performed Morning Has Broken.
Personal life
Mead was born in Southend-on-Sea to Joan (née Horning) and Stephen Mead. Casey Michael Mead, his younger brother, is four years old.
Any Dream Will Do judge Denise van Outen started dating in November 2007. The couple married on April 25th, 2009, and their daughter was born on May 1st. In July 2013, the couple released a joint statement announcing that they had split.
Mead is patron of The Mushroom Theatre Company, which is based in Rayleigh, Essex, and aims to unite able-bodied and disabled people to socialize and perform together.
In 2008, he served as the ambassador for Vodafone's 2008 Cut It Out Campaign, which aimed to eliminate bullying. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat were shot on set in the West End. During Anti-Bullying Week, children were encouraged to design their own 'dreamcoat' and the winning entries were later performed on stage by Mead.
Early career
Mead's first professional stage appearance in cabaret came as a cruise ship singer on the Portsmouth to Bilbao ferry and then in the summer at the Bridlington Spa Theatre, after studying at the performing arts college. In 2004, he went into musical theatre, playing both Levi and the Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat's UK touring production. Joseph, Mead appeared on the UK tours of Tommy (ensemble and first cover Tommy) and Miss Saigon (ensemble and first coverage Chris), before joining the Phantom of the Opera as an ensemble player and understudie for the role of Raoul.
Post-Joseph career
Mead attended a short course at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City before embarking on his first major performance in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime in the United Kingdom. Trevor Baxter's adaptation of a short story by Oscar Wilde opened at the Theatre Royal Windsor on January 10, 2010 and then lasted at the Theatre Royal Bath on April 24, 2010. Mead starred in the title role alongside established actors including Gary Wilmot, Kate O'Mara, David Ross, and Derren Nesbitt.
Mead continued to perform in Fiyero's London production Wicked, from 10 May 2010 to 5 February 2011, opposite Rachel Tucker as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch Of the West, and Galinda, the Good Witch. Mead was nominated for the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Takeover in a Role for this role.
Mead took over the role of Emmett in Legally Blonde in the West End from 20 June to October 11, 2011. In August 2011, he made his television appearance debut on BBC One as newly employed teaching assistant Harry Timms He also appeared in the second series of the science fiction drama "Belam" as Scott, the title character's brother, in the episode "Jude." In December 2012, he appeared in his first pantomime as the title character "Jack" in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, alongside Julian Clary and Nigel Havers.
Mead returned to the West End in May 2013 as The West End Men, starring Matt Willis, Glenn Carter, Stephen Rahman-Hughes, and David Thaxton. In December 2013, he appeared in his second pantomime as "Robin" in Robin Hood at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth.
Ben "Lofty" Chiltern appeared in the BBC drama series Casualty on March 1, 2014. Mead was named Favourite Newcomer in the 2014 TV Times Awards and shortlisted as the Best Newcomer in the 2015 National Television Awards for this role. Mead, along with Casualty, is on tour in the United Kingdom with his band. In Cinderella's third pantomime, "Prince Charming" appeared as "Present Charming" in the New Theatre, Cardiff, December 2014, and "Aladdin" in Aladdin at the Hippodrome, Birmingham, 2015.
Mead's quit Casualty in 2016 for "Caractacus Potts" and finished the year in Cinderella at the London Palladium. He appeared in Holby City in 2017 reprising his Casualty role. He remained a series regular until his last episode, which aired on December 17, 2019.
In 2019, he made a guest appearance in the second series of BBC sitcom Motherland.