TELEVISION
2021 – A Spy Among Friends – Nicholas Elliot (in negotiations)
2016-present Billions – Bobby “Axe” Axelrod
2015 Wolf Hall – Henry VIII
2011-14 Homeland – Nicholas Brody
2013 The Vicar of Dibley: Comic Relief Special – Anglican Priest
2011 Stolen – Anthony Carter
2007-09 Life – Charlie Crews
2009 Phineas and Ferb (animation) – Agent Double 0-0
2006 Confessions of a Diary Secretary – Tony Blair
2006 Friends and Crocodiles – Paul Reynolds
2005 Much Ado About Nothing – Benedick
2005 Colditz – Nicholas McGrade
2003 Posh and Beck’s Big Impression – Simon Fuller
2003 The Forsyte Saga: Series 2 – Soames Forsyte
2002 Jeffrey Archer: The Truth – Jeffrey Archer
2002 The Forsyte Saga: Series 1 – Soames Forsyte
2001 Band of Brothers – Richard “Dick” Winters
2000 Hearts and Bones – Mark Rose
2000 Life Force – Kurt Glemser
1999 Warriors – Lt. Neil Loughrey
1996 A Touch of Frost: Deep Waters – Adam Weston
1995 Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Hickory Dickory Dock – Leonard Bateson
1993 Rik Mayall Presents: Mickey Love – Clive
OTHER TELEVISION
2020 Have I Got News For You – Guest Host
2020 BBC Breakfast (for FeedNHS) – Guest
2020 Good Morning Britain (for FeedNHS) – Guest
2019 Evening Standard Theatre Awards – CoHost
2019 LIVE Kelly and Ryan – Guest
2019 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – Guest
2019 CBS This Morning – Guest
2018 BAFTA LA’s Britannia Awards – Recipient
2018 The Late Late Show with James Corden, London Special – Guest
2018 Soccer Aid TV Special – Performer
2018 BBC’s The One Show – Guest
2018 Good Morning Britain – Guest
2018 NBC’s Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist – Guest
2018 The Today Show – Guest
2018 BRIT Awards – Presenter
2017 Game4Grenfell TV Special – Performer
2017 CBS News Sunday Morning – Guest
2017 Late Night with Seth Meyers – Guest
2016 LIVE! with Kelly – Guest
2016 CBS This Morning – Guest
2016 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – Guest
2016 The Today Show – Guest
2016 26th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards – Presenter
2016 44th Annual International Emmy Awards – Presenter
2016 SAG Foundation Conversations – Interviewee
2016 Top Gear – Special Guest
2016 Artsnight – Interviewee
2016 The 73rd Golden Globe Awards – Nominee
2015 The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards – Nominee
2015 CBS This Morning – Guest
2014 Conan – Guest
2014 CBeebies Bedtime Stories:I Got a Crocodile – Reader
2014 CBeebies Bedtime Stories:Peace at Last – Reader
2014 Have I Got News For You – Guest Host
2013 The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards – Nominee
2013 The 70th Golden Globe Awards – Nominee
2013 LIVE! with Kelly – Guest
2013 Good Morning America – Guest
2013 BAFTA TV Awards – Presenter
2013 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Presenter
2013 Arqiva British Academy Television Awards – Presenter
2013 Evening Standard Theatre Awards – Host
2013 Charlie Rose – Guest
2013 CBeebies Bedtime Stories:Too Small for My Big Bed – Reader
2013 CBeebies Bedtime Stories:The Baby in the Hat – Reader
2013 CBeebies Bedtime Stories: Monty and Milli The Totally Amazing Magic Trick – Reader
2013 Top Gear – Special Guest
2012 The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards – Nominee
2012 The 69th Golden Globe Awards – Nominee
2012 Jimmy Kimmel Live – Guest
2012 The Jonathan Ross Show – Guest
2012 The View – Guest
2012 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – Guest
2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards – Presentor
2012 Have I Got News For You – Guest Host
2012 Speakeasy: With Paul F. Tompkins – Performer
2012 Tavis Smiley – Guest
2012 The Graham Norton Show – Guest
2012 Michael Douglas & Friends Celebrity Golf Tournament – Performer
2011 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – Guest
2011 BBC News: Five Minutes With… – Guest
2011 BAFTA Television Awards – Presenter
2011 Breakfast – Guest
2011 Daybreak – Guest
2010 Have I Got News For You – Guest Host
2010 Soccer Aid TV Special – Performer
2009 Have I Got News For You – Guest Host
2007 4th Irish Film and Television Awards – Presenter
2007 Entertainment Tonight – Interviewee
2006 Have I Got News For You – Guest Host
2006 All Star Cup TV Special – Performer
2006 GMTV – Guest
2005 Breakfast – Guest
2005 The Daily Politics – Guest
2005 This Morning – Guest
2005 Richard & Judy – Guest
2003 Essential Poems For Christmas – Performer
2003 Parkinson – Guest
2001 Breakfast – Guest
FILM
2020 Dream Horse – Tax Accountant/Advisor Howard Davies
2019 Run This Town – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
2019 Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood – Steve McQueen
2016 Our Kind of Traitor – Hector Meredith
2015 Bill – Sir Richard Hawkins
2015 Queen of the Desert – Charles Doughty-Wylie
2014 The Silent Storm – Balor
2012 Romeo and Juliet – Lord Capulet
2012 The Sweeney – Frank Haskins
2011 Will – Gareth
2011 Your Highness – Boremont
2007 The Escapist – Rizza
2007 The Baker – Milo Shakespeare
2006 Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker – Yassen Gregorovich
2006 The Situation – Dan Murphy
2005 Chromophobia – Marcus Aylesbury
2005 An Unfinished Life – Gary Winston
2004 Brides – Norman Harris
2004 Keane – William Keane
2003 Dreamcatcher – Gary “Jonesy” Jones
1997 Robinson Crusoe – Patrick Connor
DOCUMENTARY
2019 Damian Lewis: Spy Wars – Host Reporter/Narrator
2013 Les Coulisses des Golden Globes – Performer
2012 Dick Winters: Hang Tough – Narrator
2007 The Best of Masterpiece Theatre – Participant
2007 The 50 Greatest Television Dramas – Participant
2006 Bolivia for Sale – Host Reporter/Narrator
2001 The Making of ‘Band of Brothers’ – Performer
SHORT
2013 Desire – Clark
2002 The Script – Anthony’s Boss
1996 The Ill – Mac
THEATRE
2021 Lift Me Up I Am Dying (virtual) – Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
2020 Sophocles’ Ajax and Philoctetes UK (Theater of War Productions via Zoom) – TBD
2020 The Oedipus Project UK (Theater of War Productions via Zoom) – Oedipus the King
2019 Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] – Inspector/Sleuth
2017 The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? – Martin Gray
2015 American Buffalo – Walter “Teach” Cole
2009-10 The Misanthrope – Alceste
2005-06 Pillars of the Community – Karsten Bernick
2003-04 Five Gold Rings – Daniel
2001 The Varieties of Religious Experience – Richard Kane
1998 Into the Woods – Prince/Wolf
1998 More Words – Performer
1997/98 Cymbeline – Posthumus
1996/97 Little Eyolf – Borghejm
1996/98 Much Ado About Nothing – Don John
1996 The Devil is an Ass – Wittipol
1995 Hamlet – Laertes
1994 Hamlet – Hamlet
1994 School for Wives – Horace
1994 Romeo and Juliet – Romeo
1993 94 Rope – Wyndham Brandon
MISC. VIRTUAL EVENTS
2021 The Reason I Jump – Discussion Moderator
RADIO/PODCASTS
2020 Planet Rock/Scala Radio for Prince’s Trust Day – Guest
2020 The Coronavirus Newscast Podcast (for FeedNHS) – Guest
2019 The Chris Evans Breakfast Show – Guest
2019 NPR’s Fresh Air – Guest
2019 The Moment with Brian Koppelman – Guest
2018 Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist, Podcast Special – Guest
2017 BBC Radio 2 The Chris Evans Breakfast Show – Guest
2017 Chalke Valley History Hit Podcast – Guest
2017 Remote Controlled with Debra Birnbaum Podcast, episode 22 – Guest
2016 BBC Radio 4 Saturday Drama: The Reserve Rope – Edward Whymper
2016 BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw – Guest
2015 BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Guest
2014 BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs – Guest Castaway
2013 BBC Radio 5 Test Cricket Match Special, Lord’s v New Zealand – Guest
2013 BBC Radio 4 Saturday Drama: The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
2013 BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime: A Delicate Truth – Reader
2012 BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Guest
2012 BBC Radio Weekend Wogan – Guest
2012 Number 10: Series 5 – Simon Laity
2011 SiriusXM Radio Ron Bennington Interviews – Guest
2011 SiriusXM Radio Geektime! – Guest
2011 Kiss 108 Radio Show Matty in the Morning – Guest
2011 London’s Magic 105.4 FM – Guest
2011 Black Sky Radio – Guest
2010 Number 10: Series 4 – Simon Laity
2010 Giovanni’s Room – David
2009 Number 10: Series 3 – Simon Laity
2008 The Small Back Room – Sammy
2008 Josephine Hart Poetry – Programme Reader
2007 Insignificance – The Ballplayer
2007 My Cousin Rachel – Ambrose
2007 Agent Zigzag – All Roles
2007 Something Wrong About the Mouth – Gene Pew
2006 Beauty & Death
2006 The James Bond Stories – All Roles
2005 The Glittering Prizes – Donald Davidson
2003 Scarlet Pimpernel – All Roles
2000 Richard II – Bolingbroke
1999 Fire in the Heart – Charles
1998 The Golden Triangle – Various
1998 Life’s Little Ironies – Shadrach
OTHER VOICE WORK/AUDIOBOOKS/VIDEO SERIES
2019 This Is Your Country Now, Too: Gustav and Franziska – Trevor Chadwick
2019 Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year – Reader
2018 FIFA World Cup Official Film – Narrator
2017 George Orwell’s Talking Statue – Voice
2017 Range Rover Velar: The Crafting of Simplicity – Narrator
2016 Charlie Rose Audiobook: A Conversation About Billions – Guest
2016 W.B. Yeats Poetry: Words – Reader
2016 Shakespeare Solos: Julius Caesar – Marc Antony
2016 The Guardian Books Podcast: Our Kind of Traitor – Reader
2014 WordTheatre: Sunday Time EFG Short Story Award Selections, Vol. 1 – Reader
2014 Benjamin Britten’s Paul Bunyan, Touring Opera – Voice
2014 Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh – Reader
2014 The Love Book – Reader
2014 Charlie Rose Audiobook: Damian Lewis & Claire Danes – Guest
2013 Phantom Pain – Narrator
2013 Charlie Rose Audiobook: Damian Lewis – Guest
2012 Diamonds Are Forever – Reader
2011 Born To Learn – Narrator
2009 Keep On Running: 50 Years of Island Records – Narrator
2007 Split Second – Reader
2005 Soldier, Husband, Daughter, Dad – Narrator
1999 Hamlet – Laertes
1999 Timon of Athens – Alcibiades
1999 Two Gentlemen of Verona – Valentine
PRODUCER
(in development) The Money Run – Flare Pictures Ltd.
(in development) Falling Stars – Flare Pictures Ltd.
2007 The Baker – Picture Farm Ltd.
2006 Normal for Norfolk – Picture Farm Ltd.
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Red Current Pictures, est 2021
2021 – A Spy Among Friends – Executive Producer (in negotiations, BritBox)
Rookery Productions, est. 2019
2019 Damian Lewis: Spy Wars (History Channel U.K., A&E Networks, Alaska TV)
BOOKS
2019 The Father Hood: Inspiration for the New Dad Generation – Quoted
2015 The Outstanding Actor: Seven Keys to Success – Foreword
ADVISOR
2019 Pure Grass Films
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