“I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.”

English actor and musician

Damian Lewis is an English actor and musician. He rose to prominence on television for playing U.S. Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. He later won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his role as Nicholas Brody in Homeland, and was also nominated for his performance as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall. He played Bobby Axelrod in Billions for six of its seven seasons, and appeared in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 2019 as Steve McQueen.