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Damian Watcyn Lewis CBE (born 11 February 1971) is an English actor,[1] presenter and producer. He is best known for portraying U.S. Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. He also portrayed U.S. Marine Gunnery Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series Homeland, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.[2] His performance as Henry VIII of England in Wolf Hall earned him his third Primetime Emmy nomination and fourth Golden Globe nomination. He portrayed Bobby Axelrod in the Showtime series Billions in the first five seasons and appeared in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) as actor Steve McQueen.

Damian Lewis CBE
Lewis in 2015
Born	Damian Watcyn Lewis (1971-02-11) 11 February 1971 (age 51) St John's Wood, London, England
Alma mater	Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Occupation	Actor presenter producer
Years active	1993–present
Spouse	Helen McCrory ​ ​ (m. 2007; died 2021)​
Children	2

Early life

Lewis was born on 11 February 1971 in St John's Wood, London, the eldest son of Charlotte Mary (née Bowater) and John Watcyn Lewis, a City insurance broker with Lloyd's.[3][4][5] His paternal grandparents were Welsh.[6] His maternal grandfather was Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ian Bowater, Lord Mayor of London, and his maternal grandmother's ancestors include Bertrand, Viscount Dawson of Penn (a doctor to the Royal Family) and the eminent naval shipbuilder (see Yarrow Shipbuilders) and philanthropist Sir Alfred Yarrow, 1st Baronet, who was of partial Sephardic Jewish descent.[7] He has stated that he "went to English boarding schools and grew up around people very much like [his character] Soames and in a milieu very much like the Forsytes'".[8]

As a child, Lewis made several visits to the US to visit relatives during summer breaks.[9][10] He first decided to become an actor at the age of 16.[5] He was educated at the independent Ashdown House School in Forest Row, East Sussex, and at Eton College. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1993, after which he worked as an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

During his time with the RSC, he played Borgheim in Adrian Noble's production of Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf and Posthumus in William Shakespeare's Cymbeline. He also starred in another of Ibsen's plays, as Karsten Bernick in Pillars of the Community at the National Theatre in November 2005.[11]

Career

Lewis once worked as a telemarketer selling car alarms, a job he detested.[12] 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.[9]

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.[13] 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.[9] 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.[14][15][16]

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.[17] 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^{[clarification needed]} nightly programme, The Jay Leno Show.^{[citation needed]}

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.[18] 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.[19][20]

He played Gareth, the father of an 11-year-old Liverpool F.C. fan, in the 2011 film Will.[21]

From 2011 to 2013, Lewis had a starring role as Gunnery Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series Homeland.[22] In 2013, he narrated poetry for The Love Book App, an "interactive anthology of love literature developed by Allie Byrne Esiri".[23]

From 2016 to 2021, he starred as billionaire hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod in the Showtime series Billions.[24]

Honours

Lewis was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to drama[25] and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to drama and charity.[26]

Personal life

Lewis suffered a period of depression following a motorcycle accident in North London in 1998.[27][28]

Having previously dated Katie Razzall, Kristin Davis and Sophia Myles,[29] Lewis married actress Helen McCrory on 4 July 2007. They have a daughter, Manon (born 2006) and a son, Gulliver (born 2007).[30] McCrory died of cancer on 16 April 2021, aged 52.[31][32]

Lewis and his family left the UK in 2007 to live in Los Angeles while he worked on the NBC-TV crime drama Life. After completion of that series' final episode in 2009, they returned to the UK to live in a Victorian townhouse in Tufnell Park, north London.[33] They also have a house near Sudbury in Suffolk.[34]

In 2010, Lewis became a trade justice ambassador for the charity Christian Aid.[35] In May 2006 and June 2018, he played for England in Soccer Aid, and played golf for Europe in the All*Star Cup in August 2006, both shown on ITV.

Lewis is a supporter of Liverpool F.C.[36]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lewis and McCrory supported Feed NHS, a fundraiser to give food from high street restaurants to NHS staff. By April 2020, they had raised £1m for the charity. The initiative started in London, but following its success, plans were announced to roll it out to other cities in the UK.[37]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Robinson Crusoe	Patrick
2003	Dreamcatcher	Gary "Jonesy" Jones
2004	Keane	William Keane
	Brides	Norman Harris	Original Greek Title: Νύφες
2005	Chromophobia	Marcus Aylesbury
	An Unfinished Life	Gary Winston
2006	The Situation	Dan Murphy
	Stormbreaker	Yasha "Yassen" Gregorovich	Released in the US as Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
2008	The Baker	Milo "The Baker" Shakespeare	Also producer; also known as Assassin in Love
	The Escapist	Rizza
2011	Your Highness	Boremont
	Will	Gareth
2012	The Sweeney	Detective Chief Inspector Frank Haskins
2013	Romeo & Juliet	Lord Capulet
2014	The Silent Storm	Balor McNeil
2015	Queen of the Desert	Lt. Colonel Charles Doughty-Wylie, VC
	Bill	Sir Richard Hawkins
2016	Our Kind of Traitor	Hector
2019	Run This Town[38]	Rob Ford
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Steve McQueen
2020	Dream Horse	Howard Davies

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Micky Love	Clive	Television movie
1995	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Leonard Bateson	Episode: "Hickory Dickory Dock"
1996	A Touch of Frost	Adam Weston	Episode: "Deep Waters"
1999	Warriors	Lt. Neil Loughrey	Television movie
2000	Life Force	Kurt Glemser	2 episodes
	Hearts and Bones	Mark Rose	8 episodes
2001	Band of Brothers	Maj. Richard D. Winters	Miniseries
2002–2003	The Forsyte Saga	Soames Forsyte	10 episodes
2002	Jeffrey Archer: The Truth	Jeffrey Archer	Television movie
2003	The Forsyte Saga: To Let	Soames Forsyte	Television movie
2005	Colditz	Cpl / Lt. Nicholas McGrade	2 episodes
	Friends and Crocodiles	Paul	Television movie
	Much Ado About Nothing	Benedick	Television movie
2006–2020	Have I Got News for You	Presenter	7 episodes
2007–2009	Life	Charlie Crews	32 episodes
2011	Stolen	D.I. Anthony Carter	Television movie
2011–2014	Homeland	Nicholas Brody	38 episodes
2015	Wolf Hall	Henry VIII of England	Miniseries
2016–2021	Billions	Bobby Axelrod	60 episodes
2020	Spy Wars	Host	Current
TBA	A Spy Among Friends[39]	Nicholas Elliott	TV series; filming. Also acts as producer

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Theatre
1994	The School for Wives	Horace	Almeida Theatre
1995	Hamlet	Laertes	Belasco Theatre
1998	Much Ado About Nothing	Don John	Barbican Theatre
2003–2004	Five Gold Rings	Daniel	Almeida Theatre
2009	The Misanthrope	Alceste	Comedy Theatre
2015	American Buffalo	Teach	Wyndham's Theatre
2017	The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?	Martin Gray	Theatre Royal Haymarket

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Damian Lewis at IMDb
• Interview with Charlie Rose—A compilation of Rose's interviews with Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, the stars of the hit drama Homeland. 2 January 2014.

На других языках

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[de] Damian Lewis

Damian Watcyn Lewis OBE (* 11. Februar 1971 in St. John’s Wood, London) ist ein britischer Schauspieler.

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- [en] Damian Lewis

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[es] Damian Lewis

Damian Watcyn Lewis (St. John's Wood, Inglaterra, 11 de febrero de 1971), conocido como Damian Lewis, es un actor y productor británico, ganador del Globo de Oro, recordado por su trabajo como el sargento Nicholas Brody, en la serie Homeland, el mayor Richard Winters en la miniserie ganadora del Emmy de la HBO Band of Brothers y como Soames Forsyte en la miniserie de la ITV The Forsyte Saga. También protagonizó al detective Charlie Crews en la serie de la NBC Life, cancelada en mayo de 2009.[1]

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[ru] Льюис, Дэмиэн

Дэ́миэн Уо́ткин Лью́ис (англ. Damian Watcyn Lewis, род. 11 февраля 1971) — британский актёр и продюсер. Прежде всего он известен в роли детектива Чарли Крюса в драме «Жизнь как приговор» и майора Ричарда Уинтерса в мини-сериале «Братья по оружию».

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