LEE MEAD

In between those 600 performances, he managed to squeeze in a documentary (The Winner's Story), a charity 

single for Children in Need that went to #2 on the UK singles chart, an eponymous CD that went double 

gold and an appearance at Wembley Stadium at the Concert for Diana where he performed the song 'Any 

Dream Will Do' with previous Josephs, Jason Donovan and Donny Osmond.

 

Guest concert performances and appearances followed one after the other and many offers of similar musical 

theatre roles came in after Joseph. However, Lee had always wanted to be a straight actor and so decided to 

go to New York City where he attended the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute to hone his 

craft. Upon his return to the UK, he embarked on a national tour as the lead in "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime", a 

play in the Victorian melodramatic style adapted by Trevor Baxter from an Oscar Wilde short story.

 

Shortly after the completion of that tour, Lee returned to his musical theater roots, first in the highly coveted 

role of Fiyero in "Wicked!", then as Emmett in "Legally Blonde: The Musical", and finally in the concert-style 

musical,  "West End Men". And still he found time to release two more albums and do concert tours in support 

of each one.

 

Again, though, he wanted to push himself and his career into straight acting. He gave a strong debut on an 

episode of the supernatural television series, ‘Bedlam’. Then, after a guest appearance on the series 'Casualty', 

the producers decided they wanted Lee back and so wrote a part especially for him to debut during the 28th 

season. The new nurse, Ben “Lofty” Chiltern, was described as "a slightly less posh Hugh Grant". We might 

describe him more as an intuitive, somewhat mystical, even mysterious character with a heart of gold and eyes 

that melt your heart. How amazing it was to have him visit us in our homes nearly every Saturday night! 

However, after two years, Lofty rode off into the sunset . . . perhaps to return . . . perhaps not.

 

But definitely not to be forgotten as we have all of Lofty’s “bits” preserved on this website’s Casualty page 

 

But for Lee Mead, leaving 'Casualty' meant time to release his fourth album, ‘Some Enchanted Evening’, to go 

on a concert tour to support it, and in the midst of it all, to star as Caractacus Potts in the UK tour of "Chitty 

Chitty Bang Bang".  At last Lee will be back in musical theatre!

 

For further information about Lee’s career, see the Chronology below. And for even more detail on everything, 

- literally everything! - Lee has done since 2007, and most likely earlier, please head over to