[4] During the Second World War, she was evacuated to her grandmother's farm in County Leix, Ireland, where she later spent many holidays.
[4] Her father, E. W. B. Lewis, was with the Royal Air Force and later worked in finance at Westinghouse International.
[4] In 1949, her family moved to Forest Hills, Queens, where she attended high school, and trained at a teachers' college in New Paltz, New York.
[5] In 1963, Lewis appeared on Broadway opposite Albert Finney in Luther by John Osborne.
[citation needed] She retired from acting in the late 1980s and entered the priesthood, having been ordained as a Deacon Curate in 2003 in the parish of Wye in Kent, England.