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Lewis
Rae was born in Lerwick the main town of the Shetland Islands,
Scotland. His
early acting experience began with the Scottish Youth theatre
prior to training at the Arts Education School in London. Film
and television work includes the role of Roger in the comedy
series Captain Butler (Channel 4); the lead role of Euan in the
feature film Chasing The Deer (Cromwell Films); Nini in Nini's
Treehouse (GMTV); Jimmy Charles the Jockey in a one hour special
The Wrong Horse, for The Bill (Thames Television); and Jeff Dexter
in the drama documentary Marc Bolan - The Last Twenty Four Hours. He
has had extensive theatre experience which include playing Mole in
Alan Bennett's adaptation of Wind In The Willows at the Bristol Old
Vic, Scrub in Rogues To Riches and Charlie Brown in Snoopy for
both the Watermill Theatre, Newbury and has spent a season with
The New Shakespeare Company playing Snug in A Midsummer Nights
Dream, Reynaldo in Hamlet and The Boy in The Card (Regents Park
Open Air Theatre, UK tour and Moscow). Other
theatre work includes Colin in The Condos (Gilded Balloon,
Edinburgh), The Balladeer in Stephen Sondheims Assassins (Komedia,
Brighton), Andy in Someone Like You for The Cambridge Theatre
Company (Strand Theatre, London), Gideon in Seven Brides For Seven
Brothers (Haymarket, Leicester), Dill in To Kill A Mocking Bird
(Theatre Royal York), Icarus in The Challenge (Shaw, London and
original cast recording), Vernand Alves in Judy (Oldham Coliseum)
and Dandelion in Watership Down (Redgrave, Farnham). Lewis
also played the juvenile lead in David Essexs' Robinson Crusoe,
and the title roles in several pantomimes throughout the country
including Aladdin and Peter Pan. He has done several voice overs
and can be heard playing the role of Marcus Reid in Arrangements
Of War, the BBC Doctor Who Audio Series. Throughout
summer
2006,
Lewis
performed
in
the
following
productions:
Inside
Job,
Relatively
Speaking,
Dames
At
Sea
and
Don't
Dress
For
Dinner
at
the
Sheringham
Little
Theatre,
Norfolk. In
December
2006
Lewis
played
the
role
of
Bob
Cratchit
in
A
Christmas
Carol. Lewis
is
currently
in
rehearsal
readings
playing
the
role
of
William
Wilberforce
in
AN
AFRICAN'S
BLOOD
at
various
dates.
Lewis
also
appears
on
the
Premiere
Studio
Recording
of
SOMEONE
LIKE
YOU
that
was
recently
released
by
Sepia
Records. HEIGHT:
5' 5" | EYES: BLUE | HAIR: BROWN | SPOTLIGHT NO:
5842 |
