Biography
Trained at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Birmingham Repertory Company, Lewis gained prominence in the U.S. with an utterly convincing performance as a stalwart G.I. in the heralded miniseries "Band of Brothers" (HBO, 2001). Unfortunately, his first leading role in a major motion picture, the bizarre adaptation of Stephen King's "Dreamcatcher" (2003), failed to carry the momentum. Regardless of the material, Lewis' …
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Career Milestones
2011 | Co-starred with Claire Danes on Showtime drama thriller "Homeland" | |
2007 | Starred in the NBC series "Life" as a former police officer who returns to the force after having been wrongly imprisoned for years | |
2007 | Cast opposite Connie Nielsen in the Iraq war drama "The Situation" | |
2006 | Cast in "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker" based on Stormbreaker, the first novel in the Alex Rider series | |
2005 | Played an abusive husband in Lasse Hallström's "An Unfinished Life" | |
2003 | First leading role in a feature in Stephen King's "Dreamcatcher" | |
2002 | Starred as Soames Forsyte in the British TV remake of "The Forsyte Saga" | |
2001 | Headed the ensemble of the WWII miniseries "Band of Brothers" (HBO) as Major Richard Winters | |
2000 | Cast in the BBC miniseries "Hearts and Bones" | |
1999 | Portrayed a British soldier stationed in Bosnia in the BBC series "Warriors" opposite Ioan Gruffudd (retitled "Peacekeepers" when aired on BBC America) | |
| Cast as Cinderella's Prince and the Wolf in the Donmar staging of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical "Into the Woods" | ||
1998 | Reprised RSC role of Posthumous in "Cymbeline" at the Kennedy Center (DC) | |
1998 | Injured in a motorcycle accident; suffered a concussion in the frontal lobe of his brain; returned to performing three weeks later as Don Juan in "Much Ado About Nothing" | |
1997 | Acted in the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of "Little Eyolf" and "Much Ado About Nothing" | |
1996 | Feature film debut, supporting Pierce Brosnan in "Robinson Crusoe" | |
1995 | Again appeared in "Hamlet", this time as Laertes to Ralph Fiennes' Melancholy Dane | |
1994 | Played title role in "Hamlet" at Regent's Park | |
1994 | First major TV role, in the Hickory Dickory Dock episode of the series "Poirot" playing a medical student who becomes a murder suspect | |
1993 | British TV debut in bit part in "Rik Mayell Presents: Mickey Love" (Granada Television) | |
1993 | Joined the Birmingham Repertory; acted in "Rope" and "Romeo and Juliet" | |
| Raised in St John's Wood area of London | ||
Awards
2012 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in Homeland |
2011 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama in Homeland |
2001 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television in Band of Brothers |