This will be Lee’s first full-time on-screen role, having made his debut as a guest star on the show back in 2011. He will begin filming at BBC Cymru Wales’ Roath Lock Studios later this year, with audiences able to catch him on screen for the first time in early 2014.
Lee said: “I’m thrilled to be joining Casualty. I really enjoyed my guest appearance in 2011, but this will be a completely different challenge. When I first read about the character Lofty I didn’t imagine I would be in the frame to play him. I am hoping he will charm audiences and they will get behind him. I can’t wait to get started and to learn all of the medical jargon!”
Lee Mead is well known as the winner of the BBC series Any Dream Will Do that led to him playing the role of Joseph from July 2007 to June 2008. He then released the songs Any Dream Will Do and Close Every Door. In 2008 Lee performed All I Ask Of You in Hyde Park to celebrate Andrew Lloyd Webber's 60th Birthday celebrations.
During the following year, he joined a host of singers at Abbey Road Studios to record All You Need Is Love in support Children in Need. Lee returned to the stage playing the title role in the national tour of Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, adapted by Trevor Baxter as a Victorian comic melodrama, from the short story by Oscar Wilde and then played the role of Fiyero in the West End musical Wicked (Apollo Victoria). He also spent three months in the West End starring as Emmett in Legally Blonde (Savoy). Lee has also toured with his own show An Evening with Lee Mead around the UK and last year toured with his band for two months, before releasing a new album in February 2012. Earlier this year Lee starred in The West End Men (Vaudeville).
Lee won the 2012 West End Frame Award for 'Most wanted West End return'.
Photo Credit: Poppy Carter
Lee won the 2012 West End Frame Award for 'Most wanted West End return'.
Photo Credit: Poppy Carter
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