Tag: Dick Winters
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Guardian Interview: Shooting Star – March 10, 2002
Shooting star by Jay Rayner | The Guardian |Â March 10, 2002 Watching Damian Lewis leading the men of Easy Company to victory in Spielberg’s WWII epic Band of Brothers, you’d never guess he went to Eton and attended drama school with Ewan MacGregor. Now, though, he is returning to more familiar territory as the iconic…
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Man of the Month: Damian Lewis, A Brit of the Action, GQ UK November 2001
“British women are just the best,†announces Damian Lewis, who you will soon know as Lieutenant Richard Winters from BBC2′s Band of Brothers. Moments later he ruminates about getting to grips with his first pair of fake breasts in LA. “I almost let out a yelp,†he says. “I thought, ‘These are like footballs!’†One…
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Becoming an American Hero: British Actor has won Acclaim for his role in ‘Band of Brothers’, The Record, October 21, 2001
BECOMING AN AMERICAN HERO: BRITISH ACTOR HAS WON ACCLAIM FOR HIS ROLE IN `BAND OF BROTHERS’ by Virginia Rohan, The Record (Bergen County, NJ), October 21, 2001 21 October 2001 by VIRGINIA ROHAN Every day during the filming of “Band of Brothers,†Damian Lewis diligently worked with a dialect coach because he was determined to…
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Damian Lewis: “I want to work with some girls!”, Now Magazine, October 17, 2001
Damian Lewis: “I want to work with some girls!” by Jay Bowers, Now Magazine, October 17, 2001 After starring in two major war dramas, Damian’s had enough of playing soldiers Damian Lewis is the star of Steven Spielberg’s new 85 million war drama on BBC2, but his success has been marred by the death of his…
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An Officer and A Gentleman – Oct 15, 2001
Eton-Educated British Actor Damian Lewis Overcame a Near-Fatal Motorcycle Crash and a Family Tragedy on His Way to the Spotlight by Russell Scott Smith | US Weekly | October 15, 2001 IT WAS A COLD WINTERS NIGHT IN London when Damian Lewis crashed, face-first through a car’s windshield and almost died. That evening, in 1998,…
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A minute with… Damian Lewis, Woman’s Own, October 8, 2001
A minute with … Damian Lewis by Tim Oglethorpe, Woman’s Own, October 8, 2001 A former Eton schoolboy, British-born Damian is set for international stardom for his role as American war hero, Dick Winters, in Steven Spielberg’s 10-part 65 million TV series Band of Brothers. He’s currently filming an adaption of the 1960’s television hit…
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Places to go… People to meet, Daily Telegraph, October 5, 2001
Places to go… people to meet by Emily Bearn, Daily Telegraph, October 5, 2001 Damian Lewis is an Old Etonian who plays an American war hero in Spielberg’s latest epic, and dreams of being the next James Bond. Emily Bearn meets the young contender DAMIAN LEWIS (if the actor’s publicists in London, New York and…
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Command Performance, The Sunday Times, September 30, 2001
Command performance by Jeff Dawson, The Sunday Times, September 30, 2001 Jeff Dawson meets Damian Lewis, the British star of Spielberg’s Band of Brothers, the most costly TV series ever. Tony To, the executive producer of Band of Brothers, reckons Damian Lewis is like “a young Steve McQueenâ€. At the very least, the actor turns…