- Jason Lewis (actor)
Infobox actor
name = Jason Lewis
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caption = Jason Lewis, October 29, 2007
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birthdate = birth date and age|1971|6|25
birthplace = Newport Beach,California ,USA
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spouse =Jason Lewis (born
June 25 ,1971 ) is an Americanactor and formerfashion model . He appeared on the May 2008 cover ofMen's Fitness .Biography
Early life
Lewis was born in
Newport Beach, California , the son of Nancy, anurse , and Gregory Lewis, a court judge; [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20030921/ai_n12876622 Our lad's ABSOLUTly Fab | Sunday Mirror | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ] the two are divorced. [ [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1804510666/bio Jason Lewis Biography - Yahoo! Movies ] ] He has three siblings, Sean, Katie and Nicole. In his teens he attended Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California. He attended college inSan Diego, California , where he became a member of theDelta Upsilon Fraternity. Fellow fraternity brothers included Marc Iadanza (son ofTony Danza ) and Jack Gilardi Jr. (son ofAnnette Funicello andJack Gilardi ). After college he started modeling, first in Paris and then with star status inMilan in the late 1990s for some of the biggest names in fashion, includingGuess? ,Tommy Hilfiger andHugo Boss .Career
Lewis appeared on "
Beverly Hills 90210 " in 1997, playing a love interest of character Valerie (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen ), but 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 waiter turned emerging young actor Smith Jerrod, the one man whose sincerity got to Samantha. He reprised the role in .Lewis has appeared in several films: "
My Bollywood Bride ", a Hollywood/Bollywood romantic comedy where Jason plays the leading man opposite Bollywood actressKashmira Shah and "Mr. Brooks ", a thriller, where he plays oppositeDemi Moore andKevin Costner . He is also known in Europe for playing the hunk on theAero Advert for Aero Bubbles.After appearing on the WB's supernatural drama "
Charmed ", where he played the recurring role of Dex Lawson, a love interest (and brief husband) ofPhoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano ), it was announced onDecember 5 ,2006 , that he would be guest starring on upcoming episodes of "Brothers & Sisters" as a possible love interest to theMatthew Rhys character Kevin Walker. He signed on to do seven episodes to play 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. [ [http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-jasonlewisguestsonbrothersandsisters,0,3108537.story?coll=zap-news-headlines 'Brothers & Sisters' Adds a Little 'Sex' - Jason Lewis to guest on multiple episodes - Zap2it ] ] He also played a soap opera actor in the episode "Living The Dream" ofHouse M.D. Lewis is a supporter of the
GLBT community. On May 10, 2008 Lewis attended theGLAAD 19th Annual Media Awards, a ceremony that celebrates gay-friendly actors and actresses as well as media outlets. [ [http://www.glaad.org/mediaawards/19thAnnual/SFAwardsPost.php 'GLAAD' - GLAAD Awards ] ]References
External links
*imdb name|id=0507314|name=Jason Lewis
*tvtome person|id=69780|name=Jason Lewis
*Sex in the City interview in [http://www.mensfitness.com/exclusives/225?page=2 Men's Fitness]
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