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Daniel Day-Lewis

British actor

  • Fame71.8
  • Momentum3.7
  • Wikipedia230.4K
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    94 languages
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  • Age
    69
    Born 1957
  • Known for
    There Will Be Blood
    2007
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

Three Oscars for Best Actor — a record no one else holds — and a habit of vanishing between roles, once to make shoes in Italy. He's the actor other actors study: total immersion, no interviews, and a stage exit mid-Hamlet that closed the theatre chapter for good.

Biography

About

Born in London on 29 April 1957, Day-Lewis trained at the Bristol Old Vic and spent the early 1980s moving between the Royal Shakespeare Company and film. In 1989, playing Hamlet at the National Theatre, he broke down mid-performance when his father's ghost appeared onstage and never returned to the stage. His breakout came with My Beautiful Laundrette, A Room with a View, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being in the mid-eighties. He won his first Oscar for My Left Foot in 1989, his second for There Will Be Blood in 2007, his third for Lincoln in 2012 — the only actor to take Best Actor three…

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In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis
said
The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
— Rolling Stone interview, 8 February 1990
Daniel Day-Lewis
said
You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film—you give over your life!
— City Limits (London, 7 April 1988)
Daniel Day-Lewis
said
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence—the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
— City Limits (London, 7 April 1988)
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Filmography

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TV credits

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Awards

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  • Knight Bachelor
  • Academy Award for Best Actor
  • Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor
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Fame
Stable
71.8
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Score components
Momentum3.7
Historical32.3
Now attention14.3
Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
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  • Wikipedia
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
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