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'Boarding school made me an angry person': Damian Lewis says leaving home as an eight-year-old caused his temper as an adult

Published: 10:28 EST, 1 February 2017 | Updated: 10:51 EST, 1 February 2017

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Damian Lewis says his time in boarding school has made him an angry adult.

The Homeland actor attended the revered prep school Ashdown House School and later Eton College, where previous alumni include the likes of Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston - and Damian admits the experience shaped him as a person.

He explained to the Evening Standard newspaper: 'I do have a temper. There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age.'

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Anger issues: Damian Lewis told The Evening Standard that going to Boarding school from a young age has made him 'angry' as an adult

'I was eight and I loved it over the five years. But I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.

'But if you learn a mechanism that early to deal with situations that are foreign to you - trying to find your place within a group - you naturally suppress a lot of your own instincts. And I think exercising that amount of control is very clearly related to outbursts of anger later on.'

Damian has been married to fellow star Helen McCrory since 2007 and the couple - share a daughter called Manon, 11, and a son called Gulliver, nine.

Happily married: Damian and actress Helen McCrory have been married for nine years

However, he's previously been adamant that his own children won't be sent away to school.

'I went at eight and I think that's very hard. You go through something which, at that age, defines you and your ability to cope,' he told the Sunday Times Magazine last year.

'There's a sudden lack of intimacy with a parent, and your ability to get through that defines you emotionally for the rest of your life.

'It's a very violent experience in those first few weeks. It's just, boom! And you deal with it.'

Controversy: Damian's appearance at Acland Burghley school last year prompted a petition from a pupil who objected to his privileged background

The son of a City broker, he also claimed that he would take great pride when at school discos he would speak to girls in his 'unconvincing mockney' accent and they would tell him he didn't sound like an Etonian.

And even at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and as he pursued a successful acting career afterwards, he was reluctant to tell people that he went to Eton because he was conscious of attitudes towards privilege.

It was only in the wake of 2001 series Band of Brothers that he 'self-consciously' announced his past because he knew it would impress Americans.

And the actor's perception of people's attitudes towards Eton proved true when the Wolf Hall actor was invited to switch on a laser display to mark a state school's 50th anniversary earlier this year

Big role: Damian in U.S. series Homeland which won him an Emmy

A former pupil of Acland Burghley's in Tufnell Park, north London, tried to block the his appearance claiming his privileged background made him unsuitable.

The petition - which only attracted 124 signatures - said the school had a 'long and proud tradition in comprehensive education' whereas Eton 'represents the reproduction of privilege and inequality in the UK'.

Of Damian, it added: 'We have nothing against him as an actor or local resident, but he is a wholly inappropriate choice for this celebration of a wonderful local comprehensive school.'

But the actor, 'surprised' by the petition, said the pupil missed the point of the occasion, which was about community and celebration.