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Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born April 29, 1957) is an English/Irish
actor.
Although born in London, England he holds an Irish passport as his father
was the Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of England. His
mother is Jill Balcon, an English Jewish actress, daughter of Sir Michael
Balcon, head of Ealing Studios.
Daniel Day Lewis in the 1988 film The Unbearable Lightness of BeingDaniel
Day-Lewis is considered to be one of the most gifted actors of his
generation. He is known for his total devotion to the role he plays, before
filming Gangs of New York he reportedly became a butcher for several months.
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Before starring in 1997's The Boxer he trained for six months with former
boxing world champion Barry McGuigan. Outside of the movie industry he is a
talented cobbler and carpenter. He was trained on the stage, in Bristol, but
he made his film debut in Sunday Bloody Sunday in 1971. He then went back to
the stage in both Bristol and London, and did not return to movies until
appearing in a bit part in Gandhi in 1982.
In 1984 he had a supporting role in The Bounty, but came to public notice as
half of a gay biracial couple in My Beautiful Laundrette. This role was
followed by a completely different character in A Room with a View in 1986,
where he played a snobbish, clumsy upper-class-dandy. The latter two films
opened in New York City on the same day. In 1987 he assumed leading man
status in Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being co-starring
Juliette Binoche which was nominated for two Oscars and won four other
awards and five nominations.
His performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot (1989) won
him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for best actor. He returned
to the stage to work again with Richard Eyre, as Hamlet at the National
Theater, but was forced to leave the production close to the end of its run
suffering from exhaustion, and has not appeared on stage since.
Other film roles have included The Age of Innocence co-starring Michelle
Pfeiffer, In the Name of the Father, The Crucible with Winona Ryder, Last of
the Mohicans, Gangs of New York with Leonardo DiCaprio and The Ballad of
Jack and Rose.
Daniel Day-Lewis is married to actress and director Rebecca Miller, daughter
of Inge Morath and Arthur Miller (author of The Crucible). They live in
Ireland and have two sons. Day-Lewis also has a son from a former
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