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  • Independent.ie Interview

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      Damian Lewis has been up since 7am, but is on remarkably fine form – and has an admission to make. “You need to know I’m in my pyjamas, clasping a coffee,” he reveals, chuckling down the phone from America, where the working day’s just starting. The London native, best known for being in The…

  • Digital Spy Interview

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      One of the best and most talked-about US dramas of recent times debuts on Channel 4 this weekend – Homeland is a scintillating psychological thriller, following a US PoW who is rescued after eight years in captivity and the CIA operative (Claire Danes) who’s convinced that he’s been turned by a terrorist cell… Digital…

  • New Zealand Listener Interview

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      In Britain, Damian Lewis is known as a stage actor and star of low-key television treasures such as The Forsyte Saga and Friends and Crocodiles. But over in the US, he shot to fame in the Steven Spielberg-produced Band of Brothers. After starring in cop show Life, he was nominated for a Golden Globe…

  • Telegraph Interview – Soldiering on: Damian Lewis in Homeland

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    Damian Lewis opens our conversation with a sheepish mention of his ardent admirers. ‘I’ve a set of fans who call themselves – you’re not allowed to laugh – Damian Bunnies.’ Their name seems to be a reference to those other copper-top characters, the Duracell Bunnies. They have been following him since his 2001 breakthrough in…

  • GQ.com Interview

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    “Straight to the sore point,” sighs Damian Lewis, slouching deeper into an armchair in the library room of London’s Covent Garden Hotel. GQ has made the mistake of bringing up the Golden Globes: while Lewis’ stunning new psychological drama Homeland won Best Show at the awards ceremony last month, Lewis lost out to former Frasier…

  • Channel 4 Interview

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    Damian Lewis is sitting opposite me, drinking tea in a wood-panelled library in a discreetly opulent Central London hotel. With his clipped Old Etonian accent and understated self-confidence, he seems the epitome of Englishness. Which is why it’s surprising that so many of his highest profile roles have been Americans. His latest drama, Homeland, is…

  • More from the BAFTA Q&A

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    The audio of Monday’s BAFTA Q&A with Damian Lewis and David Harewood is now available on Youtube. You can download it here from our Media archive. The HuffPost has an article on the Q&A: “You have to have a black man and a red head”, says Damian Lewis, explaining the American success of his espionage…

  • BBC America Interview

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    Click below for a video clip of Damian at BAFTA LA’s 18th Annual Awards Season Tea Party on Jan 14th. You can download the HD version of the clip from our Media archive here.