Damian Lewis, born in 1971, is a British actor and musician raised in London, though his family is of Welsh heritage.

Attending boarding schools before eventually going to the esteemed Eton College, he later enrolled at Guildhall School of Music and Drama after deciding to pursue acting aged 16.

After a string of one-off roles in shows including A Touch of Frost and Robinson Crusoe, Lewis started working with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1990s.

While performing in a production of Hamlet in the role of Laertes, he was spotted by Stephen Speilberg, who cast him in his breakout role of Band Of Brothers in 2001.

Since then, Lewis has been a star of stage and screen, appearing in highly-esteemed dramas including Homeland and Billions.

In 2007, Lewis married the late Helen McCrory, a beloved actress known for Peaky Blinders, the Harry Potter franchise and Skyfall.

In 2020, the pair helped support the launch of Feed NHS by restaurant Leon during the Covid-19 lockdowns in the UK, helping raise over £1million. The initiative helped provide food for care workers on the front line during the height of the pandemic.

McCrory died in 2021 from cancer at the age of 52.

Together, the pair had two children, daughter Manon (born 2006) and son, Gulliver (born 2007).

Lewis was awarded an OBE in Queen Elizabeth’s 2014 birthday honours in recognition of his services to drama, and a CBE in the 2022 Birthday Honours for his services to drama and charity.

Damian Lewis is doing double duty in The Radleys, playing vampire twin brothers Peter and Will.

To the outside world, Peter lives a normal life with his wife Helen (Kelly Macdonald) and his children Rowan and Clara, with the family living a “vegan” vampire lifestyle.

However, Will is the other side of the coin - a proud practising vampire who enjoys the hedonistic lifestyle it affords him.

So when he arrives back in Peter’s life, Peter is forced to fight against his very nature.

Find out more about Lewis’s co-star Kelly Macdonald here.

The series follows lawyer Thomas Cromwell, and his ascent to political power after his predecessor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, fails to annul King Henry VIII’s marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

Across the course of the series, we see Cromwell become a force within the British kingdom as King Henry begins his mission to find a way to wed Anne Boleyn.

Set in 1963, Lewis stars as Nicholas Elliott, an intelligence officer for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service.

However, life as he knows it changes forever when he discovers his long-time friend and colleague Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) has been working as a double agent for the KGB.

As his former friend defects to the Soviet Union, Elliott is tasked with interviewing him in this retelling of a true story.

The series is based on the book A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and The Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre.

Damian leads the cast in this long-running series, which follows Bobby Axelrod as a cut-throat hedge fund manager as he does what it takes to advance his career.

Known as Axe to most of the people around him, he has an innate ability to stay two steps ahead of the competition and lead his team to success – though he’s definitely not a man to cross.

His aggressive tactics soon earn the attention of U.S. Attorney for New York Chuck Roades (Paul Giamatti), who becomes his nemesis.

Soon the pair start using their smarts and influence to one up each other in the ultimate battle of wits.

Find out more about Billions here.