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Daniel Day Lewis - Biography
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Daniel Day Lewis Biography
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| Name : | Daniel Day Lewis |
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Date of Birth :
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April 29, 1957
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Place of Birth :
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London, England, UK
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Birth Name :
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Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis
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Height :
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6' 1½''
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Nationality :
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dual British and Irish citizenship
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Profession :
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Actor
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Daniel Day Lewis Trivia
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Won the Oscar (Academy Awards, USA) in 2008, in the category "Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role" (Best Actor), for movie "There Will Be Blood" (2007).
Trade Marks: In-depth and exhaustive preparations for roles.
Ranked #25 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time"
list (October 1997).
Moving to County Wicklow, Ireland, he assumed Irish citizenship (1993).
Lived together with Isabelle Adjani, who gave birth to their son Gabriel-Kane
Day-Lewis on 9 April 1995, from 1989 to 1994.
Brother of Tamasin Day-Lewis.
Chosen by People magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People"
in the world (1990).
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars" in film
history (#11) (1995).
Several times offered and turned down the role of Aragorn (Strider) in Peter
Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
Son-in-law of playwright Arthur Miller.
According to Harvey Weinstein, Day-Lewis was taking time off to work as a cobbler
in Florence, Italy when Weinstein, director Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo
DiCaprio lured him into coming back to New York "on false pretenses"
so they could persuade him to accept lead role in Gangs of New York (2002).
Describes himself as "a lifelong study of evasion."
According to Gangs of New York (2002) co-star John C. Reilly, Day- Lewis got
sick during shooting in Italy, refusing to trade his character's threadbare
coat for a warmer coat because the warmer coat did not exist in the 19th century;
doctors finally forced him to take antibiotics.
Announced that he will star in Rose and the Snake, co-written and directed
by his wife, Rebecca Miller. The film was later renamed The Ballad of Jack and
Rose (2005). (25 February 2003).
Has three sons: Gabriel-Kane Adjani (born on 9 April 1995), Ronan Cal Day-Lewis
(born on 14 June 1998) and Cashel Blake Day-Lewis (born in May 2002).
Chosen by People magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People"
in the world (2003).
Is a skilled woodworker in addition to being able to make his living as a cobbler.
He listened to Eminem to get into an angry, self-righteous frame of mind as
Bill the Butcher while shooting Gangs of New York (2002).
Not only do he and Michelle Pfeiffer share a birthday, but both were married
on the same day, albeit three years apart.
He was Jonathan Demme's first choice for the part of Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia
(1993). He turned the part down to work on In the Name of the Father (1993)
and Tom Hanks was cast in Philadelphia (1993) instead. Day-Lewis earned an Oscar
nomination for best actor in In the Name of the Father (1993), but Hanks won
the best actor Oscar for Philadelphia (1993), the part Day-Lewis turned down.
Always quiet and introverted, he said that he was not popular in school and
was mocked as an outsider while growing up in England, partially because he
was of half-Jewish/half-Irish stock. The upside was that, instead of socializing,
he developed a rich fantasy life that later helped him to delve so deeply into
his characters.
He was the first of three consecutive British actors to win the Oscar for Best
Actor in a leading role, Jeremy Irons being next and Anthony Hopkins the third.
Each of them coincidentally won at their first nomination in the Academy Awards.
In The Crucible (1996) Joan Allen plays his wife. In The Boxer (1997) Emily
Watson plays his wife. Both have played Reba McLain. Allen played the part in
Manhunter (1986), Watson played the part in the remake, Red Dragon (2002).
Was considered for the role of Jesus Christ in The Passion of the Christ (2004),
but director Mel Gibson thought he looked "too European" and the part
instead went to James Caviezel.
He lived apart from his wife Rebecca Miller while she was directing him in
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005). This is in keeping with his habit of being
isolated while in character and shooting a film, which is in part the reason
he is hesitant to take more film work.
Frequently called the "English Robert De Niro." Early in his career,
Day-Lewis recently referred to De Niro as his champion.
Shares his birthday with Uma Thurman and comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Considered doing an adaptation of "Rose and the Snake" in the early
1990s, but the project fell through. After marrying Rebecca Miller, she convinced
him to take the lead role and directed him in the adaptation The Ballad of Jack
and Rose (2005).
After Michael Madsen was found to be unavailable for the part, Day-Lewis tried
to get the role of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction (1994), one of the few times
he actively pursued a part. However, by that point in the casting, Quentin Tarantino
had John Travolta in mind for the part.
Hated being at Sevenoaks School so much that he ran away.
While filming Gangs of New York (2002) he rarely got out of character and would
talk with a New York accent the whole day and would be sharpening his knives
at lunch.
His performance as Christy Brown in _My Left Foot (1989)_ is ranked #11 on
Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
His performance as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York
(2002) is ranked #53 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All
Time (2006).
Grandson of Michael Balcon.
Born to Nicholas Blake (aka Cecil Day-Lewis) and his second wife Jill Balcon,
he lost his father at the age of 15.
Appears in the novel "That Must Be Yoshino".
Turned down leading role of Steven Soderbergh film Solaris (2002). The role
instead went to George Clooney.
While filming The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) on Prince Edward Island, Canada,
Day-Lewis lived alone in a hut on the beach, away from his wife, director Rebecca
Miller, and their children.
Late in the run of the 1989 production of Hamlet at the National Theatre in
London, he reported that he had a strange sensation that he was talking to his
father, who died of pancreatic cancer when Daniel was 15. Unnerved, he walked
off the stage and never returned. He still doesn't like to talk about it.
During The Last of the Mohicans (1992) he built a canoe, learned to track and
skin animals, and perfected the use of a 12-pound flintlock gun, which he took
everywhere he went, even to a Christmas dinner.
Dedicated his 2008 SAG Award to Heath Ledger who was one of his favorite actors.
Holds dual citizenship - British and Irish.
Was director Alex Cox's second choice for the role of Sid Vicious in Sid and
Nancy (1986). Gary Oldman got the part.
Supports Millwall Football Club.
Trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where colleagues included Miranda
Richardson and Greta Scacchi.
Owns homes in the US and Ireland.
Got to know his future wife Rebecca Miller while working on the film version
of her father Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible".
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Daniel Day Lewis Detailed Biography
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Daniel Day Lewis (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a talented actor, who won the Oscar (Academy Awards, USA) in 2008, in the category "Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role", for movie "There Will Be Blood" (2007). Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a British actor with dual British and Irish citizenship. After studying at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Day-Lewis performed in numerous plays and films that gained him two Academy Awards, three BAFTA awards, and a Golden Globe Award. From his earliest roles, Daniel Day-Lewis, impressed audiences and critics alike, moving easily from a flamboyant punk-rocker in My Beautiful Laundrette to a delightfully foppish Victorian suitor in Merchant-Ivory's A Room With A View. Together, these performances earned him 1986's New York Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor. He made his film debut in 1971 with an uncredited role as a child vandal in John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday, followed by supporting roles in both Gandhi and The Bounty.
Though Day-Lewis has continued to turn in one highly-praised performance after another, it was his role as writer, artist and Cerebral Palsy sufferer Christy Brown in My Left Foot for director Jim Sheridan which won him an Academy Award for Best Actor. He received his second Oscar nomination for In The Name Of The Father, his second collaboration with Sheridan--the true story of a man unjustly imprisoned for 15 years. His third Academy Award nomination for Gangs Of New York reunited him with acclaimed director Martin Scorsese, for whom he had played the aristocratic Newland Archer in The Age of Innocence.
His other wide-ranging roles include the early American adventurer Hawkeye in The Last Of The Mohicans, Philip Kaufman's film version of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, in which he won praise for his memorable lead role and in the Arthur Miller classic The Crucible, in which he portrayed the repressed Puritan John Proctor, opposite Winona Ryder and directed by Nicholas Hytner.
Day-Lewis trained at the Bristol Old Vic School. He then devoted over a decade in the 1970's and early 1980's to perform with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company, Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre, turning in notable performances in Another Country, Dracula, Futurists and Hamlet.
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