Lee Williams (actor)

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Lee Williams (born 3 April 1974) is a British actor, Voice Over artist, director, screenwriter and former model from Bangor, Wales.

He was discovered by Steven Meisel in Paris when he was working for Vivienne Westwood. Represented by Models One, he went on to model with top photographers Mario Testino, Bruce Webber, David Bailey, Paolo Roversi, Meisel, Nick Knight - who shot him for the album cover 'Coming up' for the band Suede. He was the 'it' male model of the 90's, where he modelled with Kate Moss for W magazine, as well as numerous appearances in The Face, Sky, Elle, Vogue, Vogue Homme, L'uomo Vogue and Runway Shows and Campaigns for CK Jeans, Versace, D&G, Dries Van Notes, Yohji Yamamoto, Thierry Mugler, Lagerfeld, Anne Demeulemeester, Raf Simmons. He was friends with Alexander McQueen and featured in his first two fashion shows wearing the infamous 'bumsters', and the mannequin company 'Adele Rootstein' immortalised him as a shop mannequin where he was seen in the windows of Liberty, Selfridges and Harvey Nichols.

As an actor he's best known for playing Jon Forsyte in 'The Forsyte Saga', Ewan in Channel 4's 'Teachers', Jack the manager of 'Hotel Babylon', as well as starring roles in numerous other tv shows. He was nominated for a Gemini award ( Canadian equivalent of an Oscar) for best Lead Actor in 'No Night is Too Long' alongside Marc Warren.

Williams most recently directed an adaptation of Kafka's 'The Trial' at the Edinburgh Festival and has been part of the writers programme at The Marlow Theatre in Canterbury, where his first play won a competition and they commissioned him to write a new original piece called 'SNUFF'. He has numerous television and film scripts in development.