Jason Lewis Biography

Fast Facts

• Worked as a plumbing contractor and waiter after high school to earn money to travel to Europe for modeling jobs
• Began his modeling career in the early 1990s, working for Guess?, Hugo Boss and Tommy Hilfiger
• Acting career began with a role in the short-lived 1995 series High Sierra Search and Rescue
• Was nominated for Male Model of the Year at the 1997 VH1 Fashion Music Awards Had his breakout role as Jerry "Smith" Jerrod on Sex and the City, playing a model dating Samantha Jones; reprised the role in the 2008 film adaptation of the show
• In 2004, sued Absolut Spirits Co
• for using a fictitious ad (which featured him wearing only a vodka bottle) from Sex and the City as an actual advertisement without his permission