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Lex Shrapnel

Full / Real Name: Alexander Carey Shrapnel
Born: 06 October 1979 (46 years old)
Gender: Male

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Lex Shrapnel is an English actor best known for his starring role as Ian Fowkes, Byzantium's newest agent who is still getting over his dishonorable discharge from the Royal Marines and who is not yet comfortable with the mercenary tactics his new employer is willing to use, in the mystery spy thriller television series Hunted, in 2012.

Shrapnel portrayed Gilmore Hodge in the blockbuster Captain America: The First Avenger, and appeared alongside Harrison Ford in K-19: The Widowmaker.

His other credits include Flyboys, Minder and the popular UK series Holby City.

Television Roles

Show

Character

Endeavour (2013) - Season 1

Roy Adamson

Hunted - Season 1

Ian Fowkes

The Assets - Season 1

Mitch Weaver

Transporter: The Series - Season 2

Tommy Evercroft

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