He took a brief hiatus from acting to concentrate on a music career. And that’s not the only inspiration Damian Lewis seems to have taken from his rocker girlfriend.
The star of Wolf Hall and Billions took a stroll in London’s Soho last week with The Kills singer Alison Mosshart – wearing matching his-and-hers leather jackets.
The pair, who have been together since 2022, looked completely in sync in the buttoned-up black coats with brown fleece lining, blue jeans and boots.
It’s not the first time the Eton-educated actor, 53, has revealed a more edgy side to his fashion style since his relationship with the American singer-songwriter began.
He has also been seen in skinny jeans, cowboy boots, fur-lined bomber jackets and waistcoats, with no shirt underneath.
The reinvention came after the actor was left devastated when he lost his wife of 14 years, Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory, to breast cancer in 2021.
When Helen died, he revealed in a social media post that she had urged him to find love again, telling him and their son and daughter that she wanted ‘Daddy to have lots of girlfriends’.
He wrote: ‘She died as she lived. Fearlessly. God we love her and know how lucky we are to have had her in our lives. She blazed so brightly. Go now, Little One, into the air.’
Damian Lewis took a stroll in London’s Soho last week with The Kills singer Alison Mosshart
The pair were sporting matching black leather jackets and denim jeans on their stroll
Lewis is the star of Wolf Hall and Billions, and has recently returned to acting after releasing his own music
The pair, who have been together since 2022, looked completely in sync in the buttoned-up black coats with brown fleece lining, blue jeans and boots
Romance blossomed with Alison, 46, who has fronted The Kills since 2001, the year after the death of Lewis’s late wife Helen McCroy
The happy pair seemed relaxed as they sported the his and hers leather jackets
Lewis revealed in a social media post that his late wife had urged him to find love again, telling him and their son and daughter that she wanted ‘Daddy to have lots of girlfriends’
The pair have been in a relationship for three years
Romance blossomed with Alison, 46, who has fronted The Kills since 2001, the following year. It isn’t clear how they met but it came in the same year that he announced he was to pursue his passion for music.
His debut album, Mission Creep, was released in June 2023, which gave him a ‘sense of comfort’ because it included lyrics paying tribute to his late wife.
He has since returned to acting and his latest performance, resuming his role as Henry VIII in BBC’s Wolf Hall, earned him his third Emmy nomination and fourth Golden Globe nomination.
He is also set to star in a Second World War drama, Pressure, which follows the Normandy invasion.
He will play Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, and was seen filming on Camber Sands beach in East Sussex last year.
