Biography - Damian Lewis

Who is Damian Lewis?

Damian Lewis is an actor as well as a producer.

Damian Lewis – Age, Parents, Siblings

Damian Lewis’s birth took place on  11 February 1971 in St John's Wood, London, England. His birth name/full name is Damian Watcyn Lewis. His mother’s name is Charlotte Mary Bowater and his father’s name is John Watcyn Lewis, a City insurance broker. His mother passed away in a fatal car accident in 2001.

He is not the only child of his parents and has three siblings - two younger brothers named Willian Lewis and Gareth Lewis and a sister named Amanda Lewis.

Education, Ethnicity

When Damian Lewis was a young boy, he used to visit his relatives who were then living in the US. For his education, Lewis attended Ashdown House School and later enrolled at Eton College. In 1993 he graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, having joined in 1990.

His ethnicity includes Welsh, English, Sephardi-Jewish, Ashkenazi-Jewish, and Scottish.

Damian Lewis – Girlfriend, Wife, Children, Divorce

Lewis has been in several high-profile relationships. He dated Katie Razzall for a year in 2001. While he and Razzall were dating, he was also in a relationship with Freya Stafford. Lewis was in a relationship with Stafford from 2001 to September 2003.

He then went on to date Kristin Davis from 2003 to 2004. He had a short fling with British actress Sophia Myles in 2005 before finally dating Helen McCrory.

Damian Lewis is now a married man. He married his girlfriend of two years, Helen McCrory, also an actress on  4 July 2007. Together with his wife, he has two children - a daughter named Manon McCrory-Lewis, who was born on 8 September 2006, and a son named Gulliver Lewis who was born on 2 November 2007.

Lewis was married for over 14 years and there had been no rumors of extra-marital affairs and divorce. The family is residing in Tufnell Park, in north London.

He became a widow after Helen McCrory passed away from cancer on April 16, 2021.

In 2024, it was reported that Damian Lewis was dating Alison Mosshart.

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Damian Lewis – Career

Early Days

Damian Lewis first decided to pursue a career in acting when he was 16 years old. But breaking into acting was not an easy task. He worked odd jobs such as selling car alarms until he landed movie roles.

In 1997, Lewis played Patrick Conner in Robinson Crusoe. In theatre, he appeared as Laertes in Jonathan Kent's production of Hamlet. His performance in the play was seen by Steven Spielberg, who cast him in the film Band of Brothers. 

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Gradually, he starred in ITV’s series The Forsyte Saga, Dreamcatcher, Keane, Jeffrey Archer: The Truth, Much Ado About Nothing (2005), Stormbreaker (2006), BBC drama Friends and Crocodiles (2006), NBC’s Life, The Baker (2007), The Escapist (2008), The Misanthrope, among others.

Since then, Damian Lewis has played in remarkable films/series such as Will (2011), Homeland (2011 to 2013), Wolf Hall (2015), Billions (2016-present). Lewis’ upcoming projects include Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) as Steve McQueen and Run This Town (2019) as Rob Ford.

Co-stars

On the set of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Lewis has worked with Dakota Fanning, Margaret Qualley, Luke Perry, Julia Butters, and Timothy Olyphant.

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Damian Lewis – Awards, Nominations

Damian Lewis has received several nominations over the years. He has been nominated for the Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming, which he won. He has had a Dorian Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Gotham Award, two Satellite Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Among all the nominations, Damian Lewis has won a Dorian Award, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Satellite Award.

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Damian Lewis – Net Worth, Salary

The net worth of Lewis is estimated to be more than  $25 million while the figure on his annual salary/income is unknown.

Damian Lewis – Instagram, Twitter, Facebook

On social media sites, Twitter and Facebook Damian Lewis is followed by over a million followers but is absent from Instagram. He also has an official website - damian-lewis.com.

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