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Amian Lewis is expected to receive a gong on the Queen’s birthday list of honors, according to reports.
This week, the actor, who has been mourning the death of his wife Helen McCrory, will be awarded a CBE.
It is said that honor recognizes all the good work and time that the 51-year-old has spent quietly carrying out the task of solidarity over the years.
Now a friend told The Sun: “This is well deserved for all the work Damian has done for so many people with so much done with little or no public fanfare.”
In 2014, the Homeland star received an OBE for his services to drama and received the Duke of Cambridge Award, Prince William, at Buckingham Palace.
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Last year, Lewis said he was “proud” that he and his wife, Mrs McCrory, had helped raise more than £ 1.5 million to feed NHS staff during the Covid pandemic.
In an Out to Lunch podcast before his wife’s death, he said: “We raised over £ 1.5 million and in the end we were giving 40,000 meals a day to a hundred different hospitals in the UK.
“It simply came to our notice then. can we feed
“I am very, very happy to have done so and I am full of admiration for the people who give their time working in the solidarity sector.”
A year after his wife’s death, he recently joined several stars, including Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, and Keeley Hawes, to remember her in a memorial service.
The Standard has contacted Damian Lewis representatives for further comment.