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Daniel Day-Lewis
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, he is best known for intense method acting portrayed with eccentric characters in auteurs' films. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a record three Academy Awards for Best Actor, as well as four BAFTAs, three Actor Awards and two Golden Globes. In 2014,…
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Born 29 April 1957 · Q166389
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 11 entries
The Guardian: Daniel Day-Lewis defends Paul Dano after Tarantino criticism
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The Guardian: Anemone review – Daniel Day-Lewis is endlessly watchable as ex-soldier living with guilt
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The Guardian: ‘Handbags at dawn’: Daniel Day-Lewis discusses his method acting conflict with Brian Cox
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The Guardian: ‘Theatre is an elitist artform for privileged people’: Daniel Day-Lewis talks class, cinema and his crush on Mary Poppins
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The Guardian: Daniel Day-Lewis is cross that people equate method acting with ‘behaving like a lunatic’. That’s exactly why we love it
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The Guardian: Anemone review – Daniel Day-Lewis returns for a bleak and painfully serious misfire
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The Guardian: Daniel Day-Lewis says he ‘never intended to retire, really’
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The Guardian: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Mescal, Lynne Ramsay and George Clooney set for London film festival
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The Guardian: First trailer released for Daniel Day-Lewis’s comeback film, Anemone
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The Guardian: Drink it up! All 21 Daniel Day-Lewis films – ranked
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Starred in and co-wrote Anemone, directed by his son Ronan
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: Traffic wardens issue tickets for vehicles on Daniel Day-Lewis film set
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The Guardian: Daniel Day-Lewis’s return to acting is welcome news – but being directed by his son might prove tricky | Peter Bradshaw
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The Guardian: Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting after seven years
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2017· 2 entries
Became a patron of the Wilfred Owen Association
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“I need to believe in the value of what I”
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2015· 1 entry
Day-Lewis became the honorary president of the Poetry Archive
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Bachelor (2014).
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Day-Lewis received a knighthood for services to drama
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Lincoln (2013).
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There was much debate about Day-Lewis's standing among the greatest actors in film history
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor (2012).
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Donated to the University of Oxford papers belonging to his father, the poet Cecil Day-Lewis, including early drafts of the poet's work and letters from actor John Gielgud and literary figures such as W
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2010· 1 entry
Day-Lewis received an honorary doctorate in letters from the University of Bristol, in part because of his attendance of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in his youth
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2009· 1 entry
Day-Lewis starred in Rob Marshall's musical adaptation Nine as film director Guido Contini
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for There Will Be Blood (2008).
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When he received the Academy Award for Best Actor from Helen Mirren, who was on presenting duty having won the previous year's Best Actress Oscar for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, Day-Lewis knelt before her
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2007· 1 entry
Day-Lewis starred alongside Paul Dano in Paul Thomas Anderson's loose film adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel Oil
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2005· 2 entries
He wrote a piece titled "Gaza, Authors in the Frontline: Daniel Day-Lewis" (published in The Sunday Times, April 2005) in which he describes conditions in Gaza, including references to demolitions, checkpoints and psychological impact, commenting: "In the Gaza Strip the Israeli army reacts to stone-throwing with bullets".
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Day-Lewis visited the Gaza Strip with the charity Médecins Sans Frontières, and criticised the occupation as "a state of apartheid"
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1997· 1 entry
Starred in Jim Sheridan's The Boxer alongside Emily Watson, playing a former boxer and IRA member recently released from prison
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1996· 1 entry
Day-Lewis starred in the film adaptation of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, starring alongside Paul Scofield and Joan Allen and reuniting with Winona Ryder
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1995· 2 entries
Day-Lewis visited the home of Arthur Miller – the playwright of the play from which the film was adapted – where he met Miller's daughter, Rebecca
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In New York City a few months after the relationship ended
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1993· 1 entry
Playing Newland Archer in Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel The Age of Innocence
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for My Left Foot (1990).
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1989· 3 entries
With his performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot
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To work with Richard Eyre, as the title character in Hamlet at the National Theatre, London, but during a performance collapsed during the scene where the ghost of Hamlet's father appears before him
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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
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1987· 1 entry
Day-Lewis assumed leading man status by starring in Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in which he portrayed a Czech surgeon whose hyperactive sex life is thrown into disarr
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1985· 1 entry
Day-Lewis gave his first critically acclaimed performance playing a young gay English man in an interracial relationship with a Pakistani youth in the film My Beautiful Laundrette
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1975· 1 entry
Day-Lewis's unruly attitude had diminished and he needed to make a career choice
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1972· 1 entry
The Day-Lewis family lived at Lemmons, the north London home of Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard
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1968· 1 entry
Day-Lewis's parents, finding his behaviour to be too wild, sent him as a boarder to the independent Sevenoaks School in Kent
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-04-29.
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