Acting
Lewis Ian Bray
Born 1990-10-01 · Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK
Lewis Ian Bray is a neurodivergent actor and screenwriter. He starred as Ryan in the Academy Award®-qualifying short film Ryan Can't Read, which he also co-wrote, produced by Academy Award®-winning Slick Films. Praised by Ken Loach as "touching" and "important," the film earned him Best Actor at Tokyo's Short Shorts Film Festival. Screen credits include Ryan Can't Read, No.15, The Game, Patience, and Anemone, the directorial debut from Ronan Day-Lewis. He trained at the Liverpool Everyman and is now filming a new BBC drama.
Acting credits
6.5A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder of a friend.
Jolt
2021
5.9Middle-aged Jem sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother Ray. Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship—one that was forever altered by shattering events decades earlier.
Anemone
2025
Leon, an Irishman in his 70s, lives in a council block flat in the metropolitan area of Merseyside - his wife died recently, and his daughter Anna moved to Canada. His closest companion is his old colleague and best friend Saleh, of similar age who also lives alone on the same floor of the building. Leon and Saleh have been thick as thieves for years; still Leon finds it hard to talk to him about the recent plea his daughter Anna has made for him to join her and her family across the pond and start a new life in Nova Scotia.
A Town in Nova Scotia
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NRRyan, a lad from Liverpool is facing immense financial hardship and the overwhelming burden of keeping up with his bills. A lifeline is thrown his way when his friend Tyrone, offers him a chance at redemption.
Ryan Can't Read
2024
NRA documentary about the ghost story writer M.R. James.
The Haunting of M.R. James
2018