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Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis

Highest Rated: 100% A Room With a View (1986)

Lowest Rated: 39% Nine (2009)

Birthday: Apr 29, 1957

Birthplace: London, England, UK

Unpredictable and famously reserved about his private life to the point of being secluded, actor Daniel Day-Lewis proved time and again his considerable onscreen talents in roles befitting the highly complex actor. Though often compared to fellow Brit Laurence Olivier, Day-Lewis instead took his cues from the raw, aggressive loners of 1970s American cinema, namely Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro, in adapting a Method-style of acting. After gaining notice with his performances in "My Beautiful Laundrette" (1985) and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1988), Day-Lewis developed a reputation for fully delving into his characters, often to the point of making their experiences his own - like staying in a wheelchair all day and being spoon fed like the real-life Christy Brown, the Irish writer and painter with cerebral palsy, in "My Left Foot" (1989). While he may have learned to track animals to play a frontiersman in "Last of the Mohicans" (1993) and lived in a prison cell to play an accused IRA bomber in "In the Name of the Father" (1993), it was highly doubtful Day-Lewis turned into a savage murderer for his Oscar-nominated turn as Bill the Butcher in "Gangs of New York" (2002). Nonetheless, Day-Lewis' focus on craft was palpable onscreen - again evidenced in his acclaimed leading performance in "Lincoln" (2012) - earning him yet another Oscar and the respect of all actors for being one of the most deeply committed thespians of his generation. Famously conflicted about life as a thespian, Day-Lewis claimed that "Phantom Thread" (2017), his second film with "There Will Be Blood" (2007) director Paul Thomas Anderson, would be his last movie.

Highest rated movies

100% A Room With a View
98% My Left Foot
98% My Beautiful Laundrette
94% In the Name of the Father 91% Phantom Thread 91% There Will Be Blood
90% Lincoln
88% The Age of Innocence

Photos

Daniel Day-Lewis at arrivals for AFI FEST 2012 Closing Night Premiere of LINCOLN, Grauman''s Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles, CA November 8, 2012. Photo By: Emiley Schweich/Everett Collection Daniel Day-Lewis at arrivals for AFI FEST 2012 Closing Night Premiere of LINCOLN, Grauman''s Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles, CA November 8, 2012. Photo By: Emiley Schweich/Everett Collection THE BOXER, Daniel Day-Lewis, 1997, © Universal THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, Daniel Day-Lewis, 1988. (c) Orion Pictures. LINCOLN, Daniel Day-Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln, 2012. ph: David James/TM and Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, 1985, (c) Orion MY LEFT FOOT, Daniel Day-Lewis, 1989. (c) Miramax Films. NINE, from left: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, 2009. Ph: David James/©Weinstein Company THE BOXER, Daniel Day-Lewis, 1997, © Universal NINE, Daniel Day-Lewis, 2009. Ph: David James/©Weinstein Company MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis, 1985. ©Orion THE BOXER, Daniel Day-Lewis, 1997, © Universal NINE, Daniel Day-Lewis, 2009. Ph: David James/©Weinstein Company NINE, Daniel Day-Lewis, 2009. ph: David James/©Weinstein Company MY LEFT FOOT, Brenda Fricker, Daniel Day-Lewis, 1989. (c) Miramax. MY LEFT FOOT, Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, 1989 MY LEFT FOOT, Ruth McCabe, Daniel Day-Lewis, 1989 MY LEFT FOOT, Daniel Day-Lewis, 1989 MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis, 1985 THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, Daniel Day-Lewis, 1992. ©20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, TM & Copyright

Filmography

Movies

Credit
91% 70% Phantom Thread Reynolds Woodcock (Character) $20.9M 2017
91% 90% Spielberg Self - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Access to the Danger Zone Narrator - 2012
90% 80% Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (Character) $182.2M 2012
39% 37% Nine Guido Contini (Character) $19.7M 2009
91% 86% There Will Be Blood Daniel Plainview (Character) $40.2M 2007
47% 61% The Ballad of Jack and Rose Jack (Character) $712.3K 2005
73% 81% Gangs of New York Bill "The Butcher" Cutting (Character) - 2002
81% 74% The Boxer Danny Flynn (Character) $5.8M 1997
70% 66% The Crucible John Proctor (Character) $7.3M 1996
94% 95% In the Name of the Father Gerry Conlon (Character) $24.6M 1993
88% 75% The Age of Innocence Newland Archer (Character) $31.9M 1993
88% 88% The Last of the Mohicans Hawkeye/Nathaniel Poe (Character) $72.2M 1992
98% 92% My Left Foot Christy Brown (Character) $14.5M 1989
No Score Yet 57% Eversmile New Jersey Dr. Fergus O'Connell (Character) - 1989
87% 84% The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tomas (Character) $9.3M 1988
No Score Yet 42% Stars and Bars Henderson Dores (Character) $14.9K 1988
100% 85% A Room With a View Cecil Vyse (Character) $12.0M 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Insurance Man Kafka (Character) - 1985
98% 74% My Beautiful Laundrette Johnny (Character) - 1985
74% 72% The Bounty John Fryer (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet How Many Miles to Babylon Alex (Character) - 1981