Lee Williams

For the football player of the same name see Lee Williams (football player).

Lee Williams (born April 3, 1974) is an English actor and former model. Lee was the face of French Connection TV, and has worked as a model for designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Calvin Klein.

Early life

Lee was born in Bangor, Wales he grew up in Anglesey with his single mother Elaine and a household of uncles, aunts and cousins. When Lee was eleven he and his mother moved to Shropshire and then to Warrington where his mother remarried and had his two half-sisters, Lucy and Kayleigh. Lee has only met his father once in his adult life. Because of his pretty looks Lee was often mistakened by strangers to be female rather than male. At school he was often bullied and called "Pretty Boy" to escape the teasing he filled his time with his studies and joined art and drama often staying after school to receive further lessons.

He enrolled in an art college in London, but dropped out when he was nineteen and began working at a shoe shop. He then began working in Vivienne Westwood's shop where he helped in designer shows in Paris. It was here that a photographer encouraged Lee to pursue modeling.

Modeling

Lee worked as a model for two and a half years at the time when the heroin chic look was in popular demand and was being popularized by Kate Moss, and used in Calvin Klein advertisements. Lee was tall, skinny had long hair and looked androgynous a perfect candidate to model. Lee worked in many big magazines used as model for The Face, I-D, Arena, Vogue, Elle, L'uomo. He also worked with top photographers such as Mario Testino, Bruce Webber and David Bailey. I did campaigns for Calvin Klein and shows for Versace and Dolce and Gabbana. During his modeling career he lived in Japan, New York and Paris.

Acting

Lee was encouraged by his drama teacher to pursue acting, but had instead chosen to attend an art school in London, which he had dropped out of at the age of nineteen. Because he had chosen to go to an art school rather than further pursue an acting career Lee put acting on hold when he began modelling, but with the encouragement from photographers, friends and agents he tried out for the part of a low budget movie, The Wolves of Kromer, on a whim.

To his surprise he got the role of Seth in which he portrayed a gay werewolf. Because he had become weary of modelling Lee decided to pursue acting.

Filmography

• The Waiting Room (2007) (post-production) - Brian
• New Street Law (2006) TV series (post-production) - Joe Stevens (unknown episodes)
• Popcorn (2007) (completed) - Emil
• The Trial (2006) (TV) - Clay
• No Angels - Patrick (1 episode, 2006)
• Teachers (2001) TV series - Ewan Doherty (unknown episodes, 2004)
• Murder in Suburbia - Jamie Finch (1 episode, 2004)
• The Debt (2003) (TV) - James Hilden
• The Forsyte Saga: To Let (2003) (mini) TV series - Jon Forsyte
• Doctors - Phil (1 episode, 2002
• The American Embassy - Drew Barkley (3 episodes, 2002)
• No Night Is Too Long (2002) (TV) - Tim Cornish
• Vallen (2001) - Lucas
• Me Without You (2001) - Ben
• In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000) (TV) - Stuart Sutcliffe
• Losing It (2000) (TV) - Jude
• Urban Gothic - Carter (1 episode, 2000)
• A Many Splintered Thing (2000) TV series - Simon
• Billy Elliot (2000) - Tutor 4
• Canone inverso - making love (2000) David Blau
• Mauvaise passe (1999) - Customer in Cafe
• Elephant Juice (1999) - George
• Boyz Unlimited (1999) TV series - Scott LeTissier (unknown episodes)
• Still Crazy (1998) - Young Keith
• The Wolves of Kromer (1998) - Seth
• Stalking Pete Doherty (2005) (TV) - Narrator

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