Damian Watcyn Lewis (born 11 February, 1971) is an English actor and producer, who is best known for portraying Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and Soames Forsyte in the ITV miniseries The Forsyte Saga. He recently starred as Detective Charlie Crews in the NBC drama Life.
Lewis was born in St. John's Wood, Westminster, the son of Charlotte Mary (née Bowater) and J. Watcyn Lewis, a City broker. His paternal grandparent...
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Damian Watcyn Lewis (born 11 February, 1971) is an English actor and producer, who is best known for portraying Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and Soames Forsyte in the ITV miniseries The Forsyte Saga. He recently starred as Detective Charlie Crews in the NBC drama Life.
Lewis was born in St. John's Wood, Westminster, the son of Charlotte Mary (née Bowater) and J. Watcyn Lewis, a City broker. His paternal grandparents were Welsh. His maternal grandfather was Lord Mayor of London Ian Frank Bowater and his maternal grandmother's ancestors include Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn (a doctor to the royal family) and philanthropist Alfred Yarrow. Lewis was brought up an Anglican.
Lewis made several visits to the United States to visit relatives during his summers as a child. He first decided to become an actor at age 16. He was educated at the independent Ashdown House School in the village of Forest Row in East Sussex and at Eton College and...
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