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Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis

Birthday: 1957-04-29 | Place of Birth: Greenwich, London, England, UK

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English actor with both British and Irish citizenship. His portrayals of Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007) and Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012) won Academy and BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, and Screen Actors Guild as well as Golden Globe Awards for There Will Be Blood and Lincoln. His role as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York (2002) earned him the BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Day-Lewis, who grew up in London, is the son of actress Jill Balcon and the Anglo-Irish Poet Laureate, Cecil Day-Lewis. He is a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. Often, he will remain completely in character for the duration of the shooting schedule of his films, even to the point of adversely affecting his health. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only seven films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles. Throughout his career Day-Lewis has received numerous accolades and remains the only actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor three times. In 2012, Time magazine named Day-Lewis "The World's Greatest Actor". In 2017, Day-Lewis announced his retirement from acting, with Phantom Thread (2017) being his final film role. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Day-Lewis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius

as    Self (archive footage)

2017
Phantom Thread

as    Reynolds Woodcock

2012
Lincoln

as    Abraham Lincoln

2012
Access to the Danger Zone

as    Narrator (voice)

2011
A Man's Story

as    Self

2009
Nine

as    Guido Contini

2007
There Will Be Blood

as    Daniel Plainview

2005
The Ballad of Jack and Rose

as    Jack Slavin

2002
Gangs of New York

as    Bill "The Butcher" Cutting

2002
Forever Ealing

as    Narrator (voice)

1997
The Boxer

as    Danny Flynn

1996
The Crucible

as    John Proctor

1993
In the Name of the Father

as    Gerry Conlon

1993
The Age of Innocence

as    Newland Archer

1992
The Last of the Mohicans

as    Hawkeye

1991
Eversmile New Jersey

as    Dr. Fergus O'Connell

1989
1988
Stars & Bars

as    Henderson Dores

1988
1986
A Room with a View

as    Cecil Vyse

1986
My Beautiful Laundrette

as    Johnny Burfoot

1984
The Bounty

as    John Fryer

1981
Artemis '81

as    Library Student