Daniel Day-Lewis

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…