Daniel Day-Lewis 1957 68
Daniel Day-Lewis 1957 68
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.
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2025 Anemone Screenplay
2021 Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius as Self (archive footage)
2017 Phantom Thread as Reynolds Woodcock Script Consultant
2017 Spielberg as Self
2016 Maggie's Plan Thanks
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2013 Lincoln: An American Journey as Self
2012 Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
2012 Access to the Danger Zone as Narrator (voice)
2011 A Man's Story as Self (archival)
2010 Making The Last of the Mohicans 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 Music Score Producer
2003 Abby Singer as Daniel Day-Lewis (uncredited)
2003 Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York as Self
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
1993 Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' as Self
1992 The Last of the Mohicans as Hawkeye
1989 Eversmile New Jersey as Dr. Fergus O'Connell
1989 My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown as Christy Brown
1988 Stars & Bars as Henderson Dores
1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being as Tomas
1987 Nanou as Max
1986 A Room with a View as Cecil Vyse
1986 The Insurance Man as Kafka
1985 My Beautiful Laundrette as Johnny Burfoot
1984 The Bounty as John Fryer
1983 Dangerous Corner as Gordon Whitehouse
1982 Gandhi as Colin
1982 How Many Miles to Babylon? as Alex Moore
1981 Artemis '81 as Library Student
1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday as Child Vandal (uncredited)