1957-04-29 ( 68 years old ) in Greenwich, London, England, UK
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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Movies
Anemone
2025-10-03
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
2021-10-10
Phantom Thread
2017-12-25
Spielberg
2017-10-05
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
Lincoln: An American Journey
2013-01-16
Lincoln
2012-11-09
Access to the Danger Zone
2012-06-01
A Man's Story
2011-10-08
Making The Last of the Mohicans
2010-10-03
Nine
2009-12-03
There Will Be Blood
2007-12-26
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
2005-02-25
Abby Singer
2003-10-28
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
2003-07-01
Gangs of New York
2002-12-14
Forever Ealing
2002-12-05
The Boxer
1997-12-31
The Crucible
1996-11-27
In the Name of the Father
1993-12-12
The Age of Innocence
1993-09-10
The Last of the Mohicans
1992-08-26
Eversmile New Jersey
1989-09-11
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989-04-07
Stars & Bars
1988-03-18
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988-02-05
Nanou
1987-02-27
A Room with a View
1986-03-07
The Insurance Man
1986-02-22
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985-11-16
The Bounty
1984-05-04
Dangerous Corner
1983-05-22
Gandhi
1982-12-01
How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982-02-26
Artemis '81
1981-12-29
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971-07-01
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