| Name |
Daniel
Day-Lewis |
|
| Birth
Name |
Daniel
Michael Blake Day-Lewis |
| Profession |
Actor |
| Date
of Birth |
29 April 1957 |
| Birth
Place |
London, England, UK |
| Height |
6' 1½" (1.87 m) |
| Commented
as |
Consummate
Professional, English Robert De Niro |
| Education |
* Sevenoaks School in Kent
* Studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic School.
|
| Family |
Father :
Cecil Day-Lewis
(a) Nicholas Blake (Poet Laureate of England)
Mother : Jill Balcon (Actress)
Elder sister : Tamasin Day-Lewis (documentary
filmmaker)
Maternal grandfather : Sir Michael Balcon
(head of Ealing Studios)
Wife : Rebecca Miller
Sons : Gabriel-Kane Adjani, Ronan Cal Day-Lewis,
Cashel Blake Day-Lewis
Fatherinlaw : Arthur Miller (playwrighter) |
| Marriage
date |
13 November 1996 |
| Ex-
girlfriend |
Isabelle Adjani (French actress) |
| TV
shows |
* How Many Miles to Babylon? (1971)
* Frost in May (1982) |
| Noticeable
theatrical performances |
* Another Country (1982-83)
* Dracula (1984)
* The Futurists (1986) |
| Debut |
Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1971) |
| Unique
qualities |
In-depth
and exhaustive preparations for roles |
| Early
days champion |
De
Niro |
| Bollywood |
very interested
to appear in one of India's spectacular song-and-dance
movies. |
| Publicist |
Stan Rosenfield
|
| Friends |
Mark Wahlberg (Actor), Tommy Hinkley (Actor),
Richard Kind (Actor) |
| Career |
* He did his debut film at the age of 14
* He acted on stage with the Bristol Old Vic and
Royal Shakespeare Companies and did not appear
on screen again until 1982.
* He acted in a small part in Gandhi (1982) after
11 years of his first movie.
* He did his first major supporting role in The
Bounty (1984). |
| Acclamation |
* He was ranked #25 in Empire (UK) magazine's
"The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list (October
1997)
* He was chosen by People magazine as one of the
"50 Most Beautiful People" in the world (1990).
* He was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the
"100 Sexiest Stars" in film history (#11) (1995).
* He was chosen by People magazine as one of the
"50 Most Beautiful People" in the world (2003).
* He was ranked #11 on Premiere Magazine's 100
Greatest Performances of All Time (2006) for his
performance in My Left Foot (1989).
* He was ranked as #53 on Premiere Magazine's
100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006) in
Gangs of New York (2002) for his performance in
"The Butcher". |
| Films |
* Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
* How Many Miles to Babylon? (1982)
* Gandhi (1982)
* The Bounty (1984)
* My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
* A Room with a View (1985)
* The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
* Stars and Bars (1988)
* Eversmile, New Jersey (1989)
* My Left Foot (1989)
* The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
* The Age of Innocence (1993)
* In the Name of the Father (1993)
* The Crucible (1996)
* The Boxer (1997)
* Gangs of New York (2002)
* The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
* There Will Be Blood (2007) |
|
Facts |
* He was wild when he was a kid, so he was sent
to boarding school.
* He got introduced to woodworking & acting
in his boarding school.
* He is a skilled woodworker as well as a cobbler.
* His and Michelle Pfeiffer’s birthdates are
same and were married on the same day also.
* He appeared in the novel "That Must Be Yoshino".
* He denied the leading role of Steven Soderbergh
film Solaris (2002).
* His father died of pancreatic cancer when
he was 15.
* He dedicated 2008 SAG Award to Heath Ledger
( his favorite actor).
* He hold dual citizenship - British and Irish.
* He became an Irish citizen in 1993.
* He supports Millwall Football Club.
* He was trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre
School and his colleagues were Miranda Richardson
(actress) and Greta Scacchi (actress).
* He liked to play middle-aged middle-class
Englishmen as there's a quality of wildness
which coincides with utter solitude.
* He owns homes in the US and Ireland.
* He met his wife Rebecca Miller while working
on the film version of her father Arthur Miller's
play "The Crucible".
* He was the first of three consecutive British
actors to win the Oscar for Best Actor in a
leading role.
* He has starred in only four movies in the
last ten years. |
| Owns |
* Film and television production company, Maysville
Pictures.
* He and Grant Heslov founded production company
Smoke House after closing his earlier production
company Section Eight. |
| Controversy |
Filed case against the paparazzi by boycotting
"Entertainment Tonight" (1981), the
sister show of "Hard Copy" (1989), which
had filmed Clooney without his permission. |
| About
Him |
Nick Clooney (his father)
- "I spent the first part of my life being
referred to as Rosemary Clooney’s brother, and
now I am spending the last part of my life being
referred to as Daniel Day-Lewis’s dad." |
| Awards |
Academy Awards :
Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Syriana (2005).
Academy
Awards (Best Actor) :
* My Left Foot (1989)
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
BAFTA
Awards (Best Actor in a Leading Role):
* My Left Foot (1989)
* Gangs of New York (2002)
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
Golden
Globe Awards (Best Actor):
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
Screen
Actors' Guild Awards : (Outstanding Performance
by a Male Actor in a Leading Role)
* Gangs of New York (2002)
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
BSFC
Award (Best Actor) :
* In the Name of the Father (1993)
Broadcast
Film Critics Association Awards/Critics Choice
Award (Best Actor) :
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
* Gangs of New York (2002)
COFCA
Award (Best Actor):
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
* Gangs of New York (2002)
CFCA
Award (Best Actor) :
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
* Gangs of New York (2002)
DFWFCA
Award (Best Actor) :
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
Empire
Awards, UK (Best Actor) :
* Gangs of New York (2002)
European
Film Award (Best Actor) :
* My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
Evening
Standard British Film Award (Best Actor) :
* The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
* My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
FFCC
Award (Best Actor) :
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
* Gangs of New York (2002)
KCFCC
Award (Best Actor) :
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
* Gangs of New York (2002)
Sierra
Award (Best Actor) :
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
* Gangs of New York (2002)
ALFS
Award:
* The Last of the Mohicans (1992) [British Actor
of the Year]
* My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
[Actor of the Year]
LAFCA
Award (Best Actor) :
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
* Gangs of New York (2002)
* My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
Marrakech
International Film Festival (Best Actor) :
* The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) |
|
About Himself |
"A lifelong study of evasion." |
|
Quotes |
About
acting :
"If I weren't allowed this outlet, there wouldn't
be a place for me in society."
About
his days in acting school :
For a few years at school I tried to play the
roles they wanted me to play, but it became less
and less interesting to ponce around the place.
Even now, when I sometimes think of doing a play,
I think of rehearsal rooms and people hugging
and everyone talking over cups of coffee because
they are nervous. It's both very touching and
it makes me a little nauseous and claustrophobic.
Too much talk. I don't rehearse at all in film
if I can help it. In talking a character through,
you define it. And if you define it, you kill
it dead. |
|
Biography about him |
* "Daniel Day-Lewis: The Fire Within, " by Garry
Jenkins. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1994.
* Jackson, Laura. "Daniel Day-Lewis: The Biography."
London: Smith Gryphon, 1995 |
