Overview

• His death in Sydney was publicly confirmed on Oct. 6 by friend and TV presenter Todd Woodbridge in a social media post.
• Andrew Lloyd Webber led tributes, praising Lewis’s defining turns as the Phantom in Australia’s Love Never Dies and later in London’s The Phantom of the Opera.
• Lewis originated the Phantom in the 2011 Australian Love Never Dies, appeared as the Phantom in the West End from 2017 to 2018, and earned a Judith Johnson Award with a Helpmann nomination.
• A family GoFundMe said the cancer was discovered without symptoms after it had spread to lymph nodes and liver, and despite surgeries and multiple chemotherapy rounds it progressed further.
• He is survived by his wife, actor Melle Stewart, whom he cared for after her 2021 stroke, with public donations topping $180,000 to support treatment and the family.