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person_profile-Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis Age: 67

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Daniel Day-Lewis

Date of Birth:

Apr 29, 1957

Country of birth:

UK

Biography of

Daniel Day-Lewis

    Daniel Day-Lewis, (real name Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis) born April 29, 1957 in London, is a British-Irish actor. He is the son of the poet Cecil Day-Lewis, Knight of the Order of the British Empire, born in Ireland but having lived most of his life in England where he became Poet Laureate of Queen Elizabeth II in 1967. Her mother, actress Jill Balcon, is an Ashkenazi Jew and the daughter of Michael Balcon, director of Ealing Studios. At the beginning of the 1990s, Daniel Day-Lewis met Isabelle Adjani, with whom he had a son, Gabriel-Kane, born in 1995 a few months after their separation.

    After his theater debut in Bristol, he obtained his first extra role at the age of 14, in John Schlesinger's film, Sunday Bloody Sunday, where he was not credited in the role of a young vandal. In In the Name of the Father, in 1993, in which he played Gerry Conlon, unjustly accused of an attack perpetrated by the Provisional IRA. Daniel Day-Lewis loses several kilos to prepare for the role, regains his Northern Irish accent in front of and behind the cameras; he also spent several weeks in the cell and asked to undergo a harsh interrogation session for three days, requiring technicians to throw buckets of ice water at him and insult him. Recognized for the dramatic intensity of his compositions as striking as they are diverse (aristocrat, petty thug, marginal or criminal) by directors such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Stephen Frears, Jim Sheridan, Paul Thomas Anderson and James Ivory, he is also renowned for being one of the most selective international actors, appearing in only five films between 1998 and 2010. A follower of The Actors Studio Method, Day-Lewis is famous for the extreme and constant involvement he gives to his characters, the long research he undertakes and the significant preparation time he requires for each of his roles.

    His portrayal of Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989) won him the Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Actor; he also won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor for his roles as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007) and Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012). One of the most awarded actors in contemporary cinema, he is also the only actor in the world to date to have won three Oscars for best actor, an award for which he was also nominated three times, for his roles as Gerry Conlon in In the Name of the Father (1993), William Cutting in Gangs of New York (2002) and Reynolds Woodcoks in Phantom Thread (2017).

    In 2013, he was included in Time's list of the hundred most influential people in the world. In 2014, he was elevated to the rank of Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the British arts. In December 2017, Phantom Thread was released, his second collaboration with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. On June 20, 2017, the actor declared that this was his last film and announced his retirement, after twenty films (excluding his first film, where he was uncredited) and his status as a leading actor. to win the Oscar three times.

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Daniel Day-Lewis

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Filmography of

Daniel Day-Lewis

Found 34 Movies in total

Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump

Abraham Lincoln (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

Phantom Thread

Reynolds Woodcock ( Actor )

Script Consultant

... 2017

Spielberg

Self ( Actor )

... 2017

And the Oscar Goes To...

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2014

Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln ( Actor )

... 2012

Access to the Danger Zone

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2012

A Man's Story

Self ( Actor )

... 2011

... 2010

Nine

Guido Contini ( Actor )

... 2009

There Will Be Blood

Daniel Plainview ( Actor )

... 2007

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

Jack Slavin ( Actor )

Music Score Producer

... 2005

Abby Singer

Himself ( Actor )

... 2003

Gangs of New York

William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting ( Actor )

... 2002

Forever Ealing

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2002

The Boxer

Danny Flynn ( Actor )

... 1997

The Crucible

John Proctor ( Actor )

... 1996

In the Name of the Father

Gerry Conlon ( Actor )

... 1993

The Age of Innocence

Newland Archer ( Actor )

... 1993

The Last of the Mohicans

Hawkeye ( Actor )

... 1992

Eversmile New Jersey

Dr. Fergus O'Connell ( Actor )

... 1989

... 1989

Stars & Bars

Henderson Dores ( Actor )

... 1988

... 1988

Nanou

Max ( Actor )

... 1987

The Insurance Man

Kafka ( Actor )

... 1986

A Room with a View

Cecil Vyse ( Actor )

... 1985

My Beautiful Laundrette

Johnny Burfoot ( Actor )

... 1985

The Bounty

John Fryer ( Actor )

... 1984

Dangerous Corner

Gordon Whitehouse ( Actor )

... 1983

Gandhi

Colin ( Actor )

... 1982

How Many Miles to Babylon?

Alex Moore ( Actor )

... 1982

Artemis '81

Library Student ( Actor )

... 1981

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Child Vandal (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1971