Daniel Day-Lewis
Acteur, Componist, Producer, Schrijver
29 april 1957 (68 years)
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English and Irish actor. Often described as one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, he is best known for intense method acting portrayed with eccentric characters in auteur films. He is the recipient of numerous accolades including a record three Academy Awards for Best Actor as well as four BAFTAs, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globes. 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 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), oil tycoon Daniel Plainview 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 shoe-maker in Italy, and from 2017 to 2024. In 2025, he starred in and co-wrote Anemone, directed by his son Ronan.
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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 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), oil tycoon Daniel Plainview 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 shoe-maker in Italy, and from 2017 to 2024. In 2025, he starred in and co-wrote Anemone, directed by his son Ronan.
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Known For
Cinematografie
| 2025 | Anemone · as Ray Stoker |
| 2022 | Bonnie · as Hawkeye |
| 2020 | Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump · as Abraham Lincoln |
| 2018 | Phantom Thread: Deleted Scenes - For the Hungry Boy · as Reynolds Woodcock |
| 2017 | Phantom Thread · as Reynolds Woodcock |
| 2012 | Lincoln · as Abraham Lincoln |
| 2012 | Access to the Danger Zone · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2009 | Nine · as Guido ContiniOp Plex |
| 2008 | Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián · as Daniel Plainview |
| 2008 | Strictly Courtroom · as Gerry Conlon |
| 2007 | There Will Be Blood · as Daniel Plainview |
| 2007 | Here's Looking at You, Boy · as Johnny |
| 2005 | The Ballad of Jack and Rose · as Jack Slavin |
| 2003 | Abby Singer · as Daniel Day-Lewis (uncredited) |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York · as Bill 'the Butcher' Cutting |
| 2002 | Forever Ealing · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | I Love the '80s (UK) · as Johnny |
| 2000 | Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years · as Hawkeye |
| 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 |
| 1989 | Eversmile New Jersey · as Dr. Fergus O'connellOp Plex |
| 1989 | My Left Foot · as Christy Brown |
| 1988 | Stars and Bars · as Henderson Dores |
| 1988 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being · as Tomas |
| 1986 | Nanou · as Max |
| 1986 | A Room with a View · as Cecil Vyse |
| 1985 | The Insurance Man · as Kafka |
| 1985 | My Beautiful Laundrette · as Johnny Burfoot |
| 1985 | My Brother Jonathan · as Jonathan Dakers |
| 1984 | Screen Two · as Kafka |
| 1984 | The Bounty · as John Fryer |
| 1982 | Gandhi · as Colin |
| 1981 | Artemis 81 · as Library Student |
| 1979 | Shoestring · as Dj |
| 1973 | Playhouse · as Alex |
| 1971 | Sunday Bloody Sunday · as Child Vandal (uncredited)Op Plex |
| 1965 | Play of the Month · as Gordon Whitehouse |
| 2005 | The Ballad of Jack and Rose · as Music Score Producer |
| 2025 | Anemone · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 |
| 2017 | Phantom Thread · as Script Consultant |