Daniel Day-Lewis is read about 10,209 times a day, in 94 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
Mr. ScorseseSeries
AnemoneFilm, 2025Writer, Producer2017
Phantom ThreadFilm, Reynolds Woodcock2014Knight BachelorAward2013Academy Award for Best ActorAward2012Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best ActorAward
Access to the Danger ZoneFilm, 2012Narrator (voice)2010
Making The Last of the MohicansFilm2008Academy Award for Best ActorAward2007
There Will Be BloodFilm, Daniel Plainview2004
ParkinsonSeries2003
Abby SingerFilm, Daniel Day-Lewis (uncredited)1997
The BoxerFilm, Danny Flynn1996
The CrucibleFilm, John Proctor1992
The Last of the MohicansFilm, Hawkeye1990“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.”In their words8 February 1990Rolling Stone interview, 8 February 1990Academy Award for Best ActorAward1988“You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life!”In their words7 April 1988City Limits (London, 7 April 1988)“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.”In their words7 April 1988City Limits (London, 7 April 1988)
Stars & BarsFilm, 1988Henderson Dores1986
A Room with a ViewFilm, Cecil Vyse1985
My Brother JonathanSeries, Jonathan Dakers1984
The BountyFilm, John Fryer1982
Frost in MaySeries, Archie Hughes-Follett
GandhiFilm, 1982Colin1979
ShoestringSeries, DJ1974
PlayhouseSeries, Alex1971
Sunday Bloody SundayFilm, Child Vandal (uncredited)1965
BBC Play of the MonthSeries, Gordon Whitehouse1957Born29 April 1957Also in Deutsch
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In their own words 3
, 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.
You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life!
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.
Filmography 36
ANAnemone
DGDaniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood GeniusPTPhantom Thread
SPSpielberg
LJLincoln: An American Journey
LILincolnAZAccess to the Danger Zone
ASA Man's StoryMMMaking The Last of the Mohicans
NINineTBThere Will Be Blood
TRThe Ballad of Jack and RoseASAbby Singer
UYUncovering the Real Gangs of New York
GYGangs of New York
FEForever EalingTBThe BoxerTCThe Crucible
IFIn the Name of the Father
TIThe Age of Innocence
IIInnocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'TMThe Last of the Mohicans
MBMy Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
EJEversmile New Jersey
TBThe Unbearable Lightness of BeingSBStars & Bars
NANanouAVA Room with a View
TMThe Insurance Man
MLMy Beautiful LaundretteTBThe Bounty
DCDangerous CornerGAGandhi
HBHow Many Miles to Babylon?
ARArtemis '81SSSunday Bloody Sunday49 credits on file
Television 8
MSMr. ScorsesePAParkinsonMJMy Brother JonathanFMFrost in MaySHShoestringPLPlayhouseBMBBC Play of the Month
TOThe OscarsAwards
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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 times. He retired in 1997 to apprentice as a shoemaker in Italy, returned in 2000, then retired again in 2017 after Phantom Thread. In 2025 he came back for Anemone, a film he co-wrote with his son Ronan, who directed.
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