Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English actor. Often described as one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, he is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2014, Day-Lewis received a knighthood for services to drama. Born and raised in London, Day-Lewis excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years. Despite his traditional training at the Bristol Old Vic, he is considered a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. Protective of his private life, he rarely grants interviews and makes very few public appearances. Day-Lewis shifted between theatre and film for most of the early 1980s, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company and playing Romeo Montague in Romeo and Juliet and Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Playing the title role in Hamlet at the National Theatre in London in 1989, he left the stage midway through a performance after breaking down during a scene where the ghost of Hamlet's father appears before him—this was his last appearance on the stage. After supporting film roles in Gandhi (1982) and The Bounty (1984), he earned acclaim for his breakthrough performances in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), A Room with a View (1985), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). He earned three Academy Awards for Best Actor for his roles as Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), an oil tycoon in There Will Be Blood (2007), and Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012). He was Oscar-nominated for In the Name of the Father (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), and Phantom Thread (2017). Other notable films include The Last of the Mohicans (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), The Crucible (1996), and The Boxer (1997). He retired from acting twice, from 1997 to 2000, when he took up a new profession as an apprentice shoemaker in Italy, and from 2017 to 2024. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Day-Lewis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Greenwich, London, England, UK, 1957-04-29

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No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Child Vandal (uncredited)	66
2	1981	Artemis '81	Library Student	40
3	1982	How Many Miles to Babylon?	Alex Moore	0
4	1982	Gandhi	Colin	76
5	1983	Dangerous Corner	Gordon Whitehouse	90
6	1984	The Bounty	John Fryer	67
7	1985	My Beautiful Laundrette	Johnny Burfoot	67
8	1986	The Insurance Man	Kafka	62
9	1986	A Room with a View	Cecil Vyse	69
10	1987	Nanou	Max	33
11	1988	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Tomas	69
12	1988	Stars & Bars	Henderson Dores	44
13	1989	My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown	Christy Brown	75
14	1989	Eversmile New Jersey	Dr. Fergus O'Connell	51
15	1992	The Last of the Mohicans	Hawkeye	74
16	1993	Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'	Self	55
17	1993	The Age of Innocence	Newland Archer	70
18	1993	In the Name of the Father	Gerry Conlon	79
19	1996	The Crucible	John Proctor	66
20	1997	The Boxer	Danny Flynn	67
21	2002	Forever Ealing	Narrator (voice)	68
22	2002	Gangs of New York	Bill "The Butcher" Cutting	73
23	2003	Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York	Self	60
24	2003	Abby Singer	Daniel Day-Lewis (uncredited)	63
25	2005	The Ballad of Jack and Rose	Jack Slavin	61
26	2007	There Will Be Blood	Daniel Plainview	81
27	2009	Nine	Guido Contini	55
28	2010	Making The Last of the Mohicans	Self	0
29	2011	A Man's Story	Self (archival)	69
30	2012	Access to the Danger Zone	Narrator (voice)	63
31	2012	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	69
32	2013	Lincoln: An American Journey	Self	55
33	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
34	2017	Spielberg	Self	76
35	2017	Phantom Thread	Reynolds Woodcock	73
36	2021	Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius	Self (archive footage)	71
37	2025	Anemone		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
2	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Gordon Whitehouse	50
3	1974	Playhouse	Alex	70
4	1979	Shoestring		68
5	1979	Shoestring	DJ	68
6	1985	My Brother Jonathan	Jonathan Dakers	50

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