Born April 29, 1957, in London, Daniel Day-Lewis studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic and made his film bow as a teenager in Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971).A decade later, a small role in Gandhi led to highly visible work in The Bounty (1984), My Beautiful Laundrette and A Room with a View (both 1985), along with a successful starring debut in 1988's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Day-Lewis followed with a stunning Oscar-winning turn in My Left Foot (1989) and scored his first U.S. hit in 1992 with The Last of the Mohicans.
The versatile actor's performances in 1993's In the Name of the Father and 2002's Gangs of New York garnered him two more Oscar nods, while his role as a greed-obsessed oil tycoon won him the award for 2007's There Will Be Blood. Two years later, Day-Lewis chalked up a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor for his part in the musical Nine.
There Will Be BloodAmbitious prospector Daniel Plainview strikes it rich when he buys the oil rights to a California family's ranch and turns a simple village into a boomtown, stoking the ire of a charismatic young preacher in this compelling indie drama. Read More
NineFilm director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) faces a midlife crisis and struggles to complete his latest movie while juggling relationships several women -- including his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penélope Cruz), a muse (Nicole Kidman), his producer (Judi Dench) and his mother... Read More
My Left FootDaniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for his emotionally and physically complex portrayal of Irish writer Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy and misdiagnosed as mentally disabled for the first 10 years of his life. The story unfolds in a series of flashbacks with Hugh O'Conor starring as the... Read More
The Last of the MohicansWhen rugged frontiersman Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) saves the Munro sisters -- two newly arrived English settlers -- from a Huron ambush, he ends up in the midst of the battle between the British and the French for control of the American colonies. Director Michael Mann's first-rate production also... Read More
Nine (2009) | PG-13 | |
There Will Be Blood (2007) | R | |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) | R | |
Gangs of New York (2002) | R | |
The Boxer (1997) | R | |
The Crucible (1996) | PG-13 | |
In the Name of the Father (1993) | R | |
The Age of Innocence (1993) | PG | |
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) | R | |
My Left Foot (1989) | R | |
R | ||
A Room with a View (1986) | NR | |
My Beautiful Laundrette (1986) | R | |
The Bounty (1984) | PG | |
PG | ||
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) | R | |
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