Gwilym Lee

Gwilym Lee is a Welsh-British actor famed for his stage roles at the Donmar Warehouse and the National Theatre in London and for his portrayals of Det. Charlie Nelson in three seasons (2013-2016) of the long-running British ITV series, Midsomer Murders, and of Dymov in the Hulu series, The Great (2020-2023).

Lee made his feature film debut in a small role in The Tourist (2010), directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; written by Donnersmarck, Christopher McQuarrie, and Julian Fellowes; and starring Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton, Steven Berkoff, and Rufus Sewell, and which grossed $278 million on $100 million costs for Columbia Pictures/Sony Releasing.

Lee co-starred in the British crime drama, Isle of Dogs (2010), with Barbara Nedeljakova, Edward Hogg, and Andrew Howard under Tammi Sutton’s direction. Lee joined the ensemble of writer-director Piotr Szkopiak’s British-Polish film version of Paul Szambowski’s play, The Last Witness (2018), with Alex Pettyfer, Robert Wieckiewicz, Talulah Riley, and Michael Gambon, and released by Momentum Pictures.

Gwilym Lee was cast in a major supporting role in the Bryan Singer-directed musical biopic about Freddie Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), starring Oscar-winner Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Ben Hardy, Joe Mazzello, Tom Hollander, and Mike Myers, and which won four Oscars while grossing a knockout $911 million for producer-distributor 20^th Century Fox. Lee had his first co-starring role in the Wayne Blair-directed Australian rom-com, Top End Wedding (2019), co-starring Miranda Tapsell, and released by Universal Pictures and Entertainment One after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.

Lee starred in director-writer Damian McCarthy’s paranormal horror movie, Oddity (2024), with Carolyn Brackem, Tadhg Murphy, and Caroline Menton, which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival where it won the audience award in the festival’s Midnighters section before distribution in wide release by IFC Films.

Lee played a major supporting role in co-writer (with Eric Roth)/producer/director Robert Zemeckis’s movie adaptation of Richard McGuire’s graphic novel, Here (2024), starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, and Michelle Dockery, and released by TriStar Pictures through Sony Pictures Releasing.