Jason Lewis (actor)
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.jpg/240px-Jason_Lewis_(actor).jpg) Jason Lewis, October 29, 2007 |
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| Born | June 25, 1971 Newport Beach, California, USA |
Jason Lewis (born June 25, 1971) is an American actor and former fashion model. He appeared on the May 2008 cover of Men's Fitness.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Lewis was born in Newport Beach, California, the son of Nancy, a nurse, and Gregory Lewis, a court judge;[1] the two are divorced.[2] He has two siblings, Sean and Nicole. In his teens he attended Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California. He attended college in San Diego, California, where he became a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. Fellow fraternity brothers included Marc Iadanza (son of Tony Danza) and Jack Gilardi Jr. (son of Annette Funicello and Jack Gilardi). After college he started modeling, first in Paris and then with star status in Milan in the late 1990s for some of the biggest names in fashion, including Guess?, Tommy Hilfiger and Hugo Boss.
[edit] Career
Lewis appeared on Beverly Hills 90210 in 1997, playing a love interest of character Valerie (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen), and his most prominent role to date was in Sex and the City, where he was a fairly regular member of the show's cast in its final season as emerging young actor and waiter Smith Jerrod (aka 'Absolut Hunk'), the one man whose sincerity got to Samantha. He joined the WB's supernatural drama Charmed, where he played the recurring role of Dex Lawson, a love interest (and brief husband) of Phoebe Halliwell, who is played by Alyssa Milano.
Lewis has appeared in several films: My Bollywood Bride, a Hollywood/Bollywood romantic comedy where Jason plays the leading man opposite Bollywood actress Kashmira Shah (aka. Kashmera) and Mr. Brooks, a thriller, where he plays opposite Demi Moore and Kevin Costner.
On December 5, 2006, it was announced that Jason would be guest starring on upcoming episodes of Brothers & Sisters as a possible love interest to the Matthew Rhys character Kevin Walker. He signed on to do seven episodes. He played Chad Barry, a closeted gay soap opera actor who finds it difficult trying to develop a relationship with Kevin while keeping his sexuality secret from the Hollywood press.[3] He also played a soap opera actor dissatisfied with life in the fourth season episode of House M.D "Living The Dream"
He is also known in Europe for playing the hunk on the Aero Advert for Aero Bubbles.
He also reprised his role (Smith Jerrod) from the series in Sex and the City: The Movie.
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[edit] External links
- Jason Lewis at the Internet Movie Database
- Jason Lewis at TV.com
- Sex in the City interview in Men's Fitness
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