Lewis Ian Bray
Lewis is a genuine, gentle giant. A working class character actor with excellent comic timing. Lewis has a distinctive voice and bags of enthusiasm. He is autistic and has ADHD.
Lewis was born and grew up in Birkenhead in the North West of England UK. He attended St Mary's Catholic College in Wallasey and did a wide range of amateur stage productions when he was a child. Whilst doing this he trained as a professional improviser and toured the UK doing Long-form Improvisation with the aim of getting as much experience as possible. Lewis was a member of The Everyman Youth Theatre and he also attended The City of Liverpool College where he obtained a HND in acting. Lewis was then head hunted by the Liverpool Everyman to be their first Ignition artist where he would stay for two years as an actor in residence. His first professional play was Cartoonopolis which was a one man show about his Autistic brother Jack. Lewis wrote and performed this play in various large scale theatre's around the UK including the Dorfman Theatre at the National Theatre.
In 2018, Lewis auditioned to be a member of the BBC Radio drama company and was selected as the winner of the Norman Beaton Fellowship, where he would voice various lead roles in over 45 radio drama's. In 2019 Lewis was immediately cast in JOLT with Kate Beckinsale and went to Bulgaria to shoot the film. He then came back to Liverpool to play the Lead in the play Knee Deep In Promises on stage.
During the pandemic Lewis Co-wrote his first narrative short film Ryan Can't Read with writer director Rhys Chapman and is being produced in conjunction with Academy Award® winning film production company Slick Films. This Short is in preproduction and is being cast by Des Hamilton. Lewis will be playing the title role Ryan in this narrative short film
Lewis is soon to be working on, ITV'S on going crime drama Unforgotten.