Day-Lewis, Daniel (1957-…), is a British-born Irish actor. He is widely respected for his ability to transform himself, taking on a wide range of movie roles. In 2013, he became the first man to win the Academy Award for best actor three times. He received the best actor Oscar in 1989 for the motion picture My Left Foot, in which he played the disabled Irish author and poet Christy Brown. He also won best actor Oscars for There Will Be Blood (2007), in which he portrayed a ruthless American oil tycoon in the early 1900’s, and for Lincoln (2012), in which he portrayed the American president Abraham Lincoln.
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis was born on April 29, 1957, in London, the son of the poet and novelist Cecil Day-Lewis (see Day-Lewis, Cecil ). Daniel attended Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He made his film debut in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971). He became an Irish citizen in 1993.
Day-Lewis’s other notable films include My Beautiful Laundrette and A Room with a View (both 1986); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988); The Last of the Mohicans (1992); In the Name of the Father (1993); Gangs of New York (2002); The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005); Nine (2009), and Phantom Thread (2017). He has also worked in theater in the United Kingdom, where he appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Day-Lewis announced in 2017 that he was retiring from acting.
