Gwilym Lee

Gwilym Lee is a British actor who started performing with a drama group as a teenager, then appeared in a television adaptation of the Animal Ark books and, at sixteen, worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company on Richard III. Born in Bristol and raised in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, he trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he won its Gold Medal in 2008. On stage he was commended at the 2008 Ian Charleson Awards for Oedipus, played Laertes opposite Jude Law in Hamlet, and took first prize at the 2011 Ian Charleson Awards for King Lear. His screen work includes Land Girls, Midsomer Murders as DS Charlie Nelson, Jamestown, Top End Wedding (2019), and The Great as Grigor Dymov, while he played guitarist Brian May in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), earning a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination with its cast.