Gwilym Lee

Gwilym Lee is an acclaimed British star of stage and screen.

Gwilym Lee recently starred as Gareth Southgate in Dear England at the National Theatre in London, and The Lowry in Manchester.

Gwilym Lee’s theatre credits include Diminished (Hampstead Theatre), Versailles (Donmar Warehouse), The Promise (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios), King James Bible Readings (National Theatre), Othello (Sheffield Crucible), King Lear (Donmar Warehouse), Danton’s Death (National Theatre), The Fairy Queen (Opera-Comique, Paris/Off-Broadway), Hamlet (Elsinore and Broadway), Hamlet (Donmar Warehouse), About Tommy (Southwark Playhouse), and Oedipus (National Theatre), Richard III (RSC).

Gwilym is best known for playing legendary Queen guitarist Brian May in the award-winning movie Bohemian Rhapsody opposite Rami Malek.

His film credits also include Robert Zemeckis’ latest film Here with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, plus Oddity (Director: Damian McCarthy), Top End Wedding (Director: Wayne Blair), The Last Witness (Director: Piotr Szkopiak), The Tourist (Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck), and Isle of Dogs (Director: Tammi Sutton).

Gwilym’s TV credits include playing Grigor Dymov in The Great (Hulu), and forthcoming season 2 of SAS: Rogue Heroes (BBC). His other TV credits include: The Man (ITV), Jamestown (Carnival/Sky 1), A Song for Jenny (BBC), Midsomer Murders Series 16, 17 & 18 (ITV), Restless (BBC), Fresh Meat Series 2 (Channel 4), Cloud Chamber (Windelov/Lassen Interactive), Monroe Series 2, Episode 3 (ITV), Henry V (BBC/Shakespeare Productions Ltd), Land Girls Series 3 (BBC), Doctors Series 21 (BBC), Ashes to Ashes Series 2 (BBC), Waterloo Road (BBC), Lewis (LWT), Mutual Friends (BBC), and Animal Ark (Zenith North/HTV).

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Interview'My teeth pinged out': Gwilym Lee on playing Gareth Southgate in Dear England (Nick Curtis, The Evening Standard, 10 March 2025) - Read more