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 Lee Williams
A former model, Lee Williams good looks are one attraction of 2006 legal drama New Street Law. As well as wowing audiences as Ewan in Teachers, he's appeared in The Forsyte Saga, The Debt, and the film Billy Elliot.
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Lee plays cocky young lawyer Joe Stevens in Manchester-set drama New Street Law. Joe works for barristers Jack Roper (John Hannah) and Charlie Darling (John Thomson). It's not the first legal role he's played - 2003 drama The Debt saw him play philandering brief James Hilton, whose secret affair starts to affect his whole life.
His first break into acting came with the part of Seth in 1998 low budget film The Wolves of Kromer*, about a gay werewolf couple. The role of boyband member Scott Le Tisser (the cute one) in Channel 4 series Boyz Unlimited soon followed.
Lee's best know TV roles are Jon Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga: To Let*, and hunky Head of English Ewan in series four of comedy drama Teachers*. He's also had parts in Urban Gothic* and Murder in Suburbia, and starred with Marc Warren in BBC drama No Night is too Long*.
Film roles include playing Anna Friel's boyfriend in Me Without You* and a tutor in Billy Elliot. He also played Stuart Sutcliffe in TV biopic In His Life: The John Lennon Story*.
On stage he's had parts in productions of Loot and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He's also written a play of his own, Round Robin, about a painter suffering from Altzheimer's disease, which was performed in France.
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Lee was the face of French Connection TV, and has worked as a model for designers such as Vivienne Westwood* and Calvin Klein*.
He studied Fashion at Central St Martin's College of Art and Design in London.
He auditioned for the role of baddie Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, only losing out to Christian Coulson at the last stage.
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He was born in Bangor, Wales on 3 April 1974.
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