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Damian Lewis Biography

Damian Watcyn Lewis, OBE (born 11 February 1971) is an English actor and producer. He played U.S. Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, and also portrayed U.S. Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series Homeland (which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award). His performance as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall earned him his third Primetime Emmy nomination and fourth Golden Globe nomination.

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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

Conversation, National, Shows, Succeed

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

Assuming, Man, Men, People, Seeing, Terrorist

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L. A. and do a big network show.

Big, Bigs, Intention, Mean, Network

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

Butterflies, Butterfly, Feeling, Night, Sleep

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Foreign Policy, Government, Long, Played, Terms

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it. '

Film, Job, Jobs, Morally, Vacuous, Writing

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

Natural, Patience, Producers, Temperamentally

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

Like, Movie, People, Scared, Tension, Thinking

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

Actor, Actors, Interesting, Posh, Rough, Thinking

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

Dealing, Home, Morning, Mornings, Years

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

Anywhere, Glamour, Growing Up, Height, Swim

It was pretty daunting. Normally, I never go to a gym, but before we started shooting, I thought I'd better. I reckoned I was in really good shape, and then I looked around and I was half the size of everyone else. A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

American, Daunting, Men, Misplaced, Running, Views

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

Already, Creating, Rereading, Tudors

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

Eye, Lucky, People, Repressed, Roles

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

Good, Latin, Oscar, Party, Running, Tradition

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

Good Life, Class, Long, Management, Abusive

My parents were incredibly inclusive.

Inclusive, Incredibly, Parent, Parents

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

Creating, Enjoy, Rehearsal, Stories, Story

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

Conceal, Dramatically, Interesting, Reveal, Things

I love playing sport.

Love, Playing, Playing Sports, Sport, Sports

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