Damian Lewis is an English actor of Welsh descent. [1]. is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... St Johns Wood is a district of North London, England in the City of Westminster, near Regents Park. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Helen McCrory (born 1968) is a British actress known primarily for her stage and television work. ... is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ...

He was educated at Eton College and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1993, after which he served as a stage actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company. During his time with the RSC, he played Borgheim in Adrian Noble's production of Ibsen's Little Eyolf, as well as Posthumus in Shakespeare's Cymbeline. He has also starred in another of Ibsen's plays, Pillars of the Community. The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (privately funded and independent) for boys, founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, north of Windsor Castle, and... Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in the City of London, UK. The first Guildhall School was housed in an old warehouse in Aldermanbury, but these premises soon proved too small. ... Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a British theatre company. ... Adrian Noble was the director of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003. ... Henrik Johan Ibsen (March 20, 1828–May 23, 1906) was an extremely influential Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the rise of the modern realistic drama. ... Shakespeare redirects here. ... Dame Ellen Terry as Imogen This article is about Shakespeares play. ...

Lewis also appeared in Sam Mendes' production of Hamlet, playing Laertes opposite Ralph Fiennes' Hamlet. This production was seen by Steven Spielberg, who subsequently cast Lewis as Richard Winters in the HBO/BBC World War II miniseries Band of Brothers Sam Mendes Samuel Alexander Mendes, CBE (born August 1, 1965) is an English stage and film director born in Reading, Berkshire, England. ... Hamlet and Horatio in the cemetery by Eugène Delacroix For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation). ... Ralph Nathaniel Fiennes, (IPA: ), born 22 December 1962) is a Tony Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated and Genie Award-nominated British actor. ... Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director and producer. ... Richard D. Winters (born January 21, 1918) is a retired United States Army officer who commanded Company E (popularly referred to as Easy Company) of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), 101st Airborne Division during the Second World War. ... HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network with headquarters in New York City. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Band of Brothers is an acclaimed 10-part television miniseries set during World War II, co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. ...

Subsequently, Lewis has played Soames Forsyte in the ITV series, The Forsyte Saga (later shown as a Masterpiece Theatre miniseries). He played Jeffrey Archer in the satirical 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 Re-Told season. Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... The Forsyte Saga is the collective title of a series of novels by John Galsworthy. ... Masterpiece Theatre is a long-running anthology television series produced by WGBH which premiered on PBS on January 10, 1971. ... Not to be confused with Geoffrey Archer. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... “TV” redirects here. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Title page of the first quarto (1600) Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare. ... ShakespeaRe-Told is the umbrella title for a series of four television adaptations of William Shakespeares plays broadcast on BBC One through November 2005. ...

Lewis played the role of Yassen Gregorovich in the film Stormbreaker. Yassen Gregorovich is a contract killer in the Alex Rider series of books, written by Anthony Horowitz. ... This article is about the 2006 film. ...

In February 2006, he became a trade justice ambassador for Christian Aid, a UK charity. Activists from Christian Aid lobbying for Trade Justice Christian Aid promotion to buy goats to assist children of Rwanda Christian Aid is an agency of the major Christian churches in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ...

In 2006 he also appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's BBC drama Friends and Crocodiles. Also in 2006, he was a player for England in Soccer Aid in late May, and golfed for Europe in the All*Star Cup, in late August, both shown on ITV. On 10 November 2006, he was guest host on BBC's Have I Got News For You. Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Stephen Poliakoff Stephen Poliakoff (born December 1, 1952) is an acclaimed British playwright, director and scriptwriter, widely judged amongst Britains foremost television dramatists. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Following the success of his Emmy-winning drama The Lost Prince, the writer-director Stephen Poliakoff returned with a film charting the shifting power between a boss and his secretary as their careers rise and fall in the rapidly changing workplace of Eighties and Nineties Britain. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Soccer Aid was a British charity event held on 27 May 2006 that raised £3 million in aid of UNICEF. The event was a football match between two teams comprising celebrities and World Cup legends, one representing England and the other the Rest of the World. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... The All*Star Cup was a one off celebrity Golf match that pitted two teams of celebrities against each other in a Ryder Cup style competition, some from America and some from Europe. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show; produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been running since 1990. ...

He and his wife, the actress Helen McCrory, have a daughter named Manon (born September 2006). They are expecting their second child in late 2007. They live in Tufnell Park. Helen McCrory (born 1968) is a British actress known primarily for her stage and television work. ... Tufnell Park is a place in London which straddles the border of the London Borough of Islington and the London Borough of Camden. ...

Lewis stars as the main character in the upcoming U.S. television series Life on NBC. He stars as a police officer framed for murder and held in prison for 12 years from 1995 to 2007 before being exonerated. The show premieres in the US on September 27, 2007. Life is a forthcoming NBC television series stated to begin in Fall 2007, starring Damian Lewis as a detective for a police department, who was recently released from prison for a crime he didnt commit. ... The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...

Filmography

Warriors (1999) is a British television drama serial, written by Peter Kosminsky. ... Hearts and Bones is television drama series starring Damian Lewis, Dervla Kirwan and Sarah Parish which aired on BBC One in 2000. ... Band of Brothers is an acclaimed 10-part television miniseries set during World War II, co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. ... This article needs cleanup. ... DVD cover to The Forsyste Saga (series 1) The Forsyte Saga is a miniseries, produced by Britains Independent Television network (ITV) and later broadcast as part of Masterpiece Theatre, based on a series of novels by John Galsworthy. ... Dreamcatcher (2003) is a movie adapted from the Stephen King novel of the same name. ... Nyfes is a 2004 greek film. ... Colditz may refer to: Colditz — a city in Saxony, Germany, with famous castle and Oflag IV-C Colditz (TV series) — a 1970s BBC television programme Colditz (Doctor Who audio) — a Doctor Who audio drama Colditz, a band that released the LP Breakpoint in May 1975 Colditz, a 2005 war movie... Chromophobia is a 2005 film. ... An Unfinished Life is a 2005 film directed by Swedish director Lasse Hallström. ... Following the success of his Emmy-winning drama The Lost Prince, the writer-director Stephen Poliakoff returned with a film charting the shifting power between a boss and his secretary as their careers rise and fall in the rapidly changing workplace of Eighties and Nineties Britain. ... ShakespeaRe-Told is the umbrella title for a series of four adaptions of William Shakespeares plays broadcast on BBC One through November 2005. ... This article is about the 2006 film. ...

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