Regardless, the show won a 2008 AFI Award for best television series. Only half of the first season's shows were produced. The show premiered in the US on 26 September 2007 and was affected by the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. In 2008, Lewis starred as the main character Charlie Crews in the American television series Life on NBC. He has appeared on BBC's Have I Got News for You as guest host several times on 10 November 2006,, 18 November 2010, 27 April 9 November 2012 and 31 October 2014. In 2006, he appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's BBC drama Friends and Crocodiles. Lewis played the role of Yassen Gregorovich in the film Stormbreaker. 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-Told season. He played Jeffrey Archer in the TV special Jeffrey Archer: The Truth. Despite the film's poor box-office, Lewis's performance in the role was very well reviewed. On the heels of this role, he starred in Keane as a Manhattanite with a fragile mental state who is searching for his missing daughter. The character is American but when possessed he takes on a British accent.
He returned to the US to star in Dreamcatcher, a Lawrence Kasdan film about a man who becomes possessed by an evil alien. Subsequently, Lewis portrayed Soames Forsyte in the ITV series The Forsyte Saga, which earned him positive reviews. He was in the 2000 series called Hearts and Bones as the love interest of Dervla Kirwan. This production was seen by Steven Spielberg, who later cast Lewis as Richard Winters in Band of Brothers (2001), the first role of several that required him to have a credible American accent. He appeared in Jonathan Kent's production of Hamlet, playing Laertes.
He appeared in Robinson Crusoe (1997) as Patrick Conner. His first television appearance was as a rakish student in an early episode of the drama series A Touch of Frost (1996). Lewis once worked as a telemarketer selling car alarms, a job he detested. He also starred in another of Ibsen's plays, as Karsten Bernick in Pillars of the Community at the National Theatre in November 2005. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1993, after which he worked as an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company.ĭuring his time with the RSC, he played Borgheim in Adrian Noble's production of Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf and Posthumus in William Shakespeare's Cymbeline. He was educated at the independent Ashdown House School in Forest Row, East Sussex, and at Eton College. He first decided to become an actor at the age of 16.
As a child, Lewis made several visits to the US to visit relatives during summer breaks.
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