Background
Lewis was born in Newport Beach, California to Nancy, a nurse, and Gregory Lewis, a judge. His parents are divorced.
Lewis was born in Newport Beach, California to Nancy, a nurse, and Gregory Lewis, a judge. His parents are divorced.
In his teens he attended Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California. He attended college at San Diego State University.
He appeared on the May 2008 cover of Men"s Fitness. He has three siblings, Sean, Katie and Nicole. After college he started modeling, first in Paris and then with star status in Milan in the late 1990s for Guess?, Tommy Hilfiger and Hugo Boss, among others
Lewis appeared on Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1997, playing a love interest of character Valerie (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen).
He reprised the role in 2008"s Sex and the City: The Movie and its 2010 sequel. Lewis has appeared in several films: My Bollywood Bride, a Hollywood/Bollywood romantic comedy where Lewis plays the leading man opposite Bollywood actress Kashmira Shah, and Mr.
Brooks, a thriller, where he plays opposite Demi Moore and Kevin Costner. He is also known in Europe for playing the hunk on the Aeronautical Advert for Aeronautical Bubbles.
He signed on to do seven episodes to play Chad Barry, a closeted gay soap opera actor who finds it difficult trying to develop a relationship with Kevin while keeping his sexuality secret from the Hollywood press
He reprised the role in an episode in April 2009. He also played a soap opera actor on two episodes of House. Lewis appears and is highlighted on the cover in the limited-edition coffee table book About Face, shot by celebrity photographer John Russo and published by Pixie Press Worldwide.
Lewis is a supporter of the LGBT community.
On May 10, 2008, he attended the 19th GLAAD Media Awards, a ceremony that celebrates gay-friendly actors and actresses as well as media outlets. He starred in the 2011 Canadian film Textuality.
In addition, he appeared as Pete in the Israeli television show, Be With Her. He recently starred as Christopher Dollanganger in If There Be Thorns and Seeds of Yesterday, the third and fourth films of the Flowers in the Attic television film series based on the Dollanganger novel series by Victoria Cross Andrews.
His most prominent role to date was in Sex and the City, where he was a recurring member of the show"s cast in its final season as waiter turned emerging young actor Smith Jerrod, the one man whose sincerity got to Samantha.