![]() ![]() ![]() He appeared in Robinson Crusoe (1997) as Patrick Conner. He also appeared as a rakish student in an early episode of the drama series A Touch of Frost (1996). His first television appearance was as a medical student in "Hickory Dickory Dock", an episode of Poirot, broadcast in 1995. Lewis once worked as a telemarketer selling car alarms, a job he detested. He also starred in another of Ibsen's plays, as Karsten Bernick in Pillars of the Community at the National Theatre in November 2005. ĭuring 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 graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1993, after which he worked as an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was educated at the independent Ashdown House School in Forest Row, East Sussex, and at Eton College. He first decided to become an actor at the age of 16. Īs a child, Lewis made several visits to the US to visit relatives during summer breaks. Lewis has said that he "went to English boarding schools and grew up around people very much like Soames and in a milieu very much like the Forsytes '". 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 and philanthropist Sir Alfred Yarrow, 1st Baronet (see Yarrow Shipbuilders), who was of partial His paternal grandparents were Welsh, and he says he considers himself "London Welsh". 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. 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. Marine Gunnery Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series Homeland, and nominations for both for his performance as Henry VIII of England in Wolf Hall. He won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of U.S. ![]() Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. Damian Watcyn Lewis CBE (born 11 February 1971) is a British actor, presenter and producer. ![]()
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