Daniel Day-Lewis
Year Title Role Director
1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday Child Vandal John Schlesinger
1982 Gandhi Colin Richard Attenborough
1984 The Bounty John Fryer Roger Donaldson
1985 My Beautiful Laundrette Johnny Stephen Frears
1985 A Room with a View Cecil Vyse James Ivory
1986 Nanou Max Conny Templeman
1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tomas Philip Kaufman
1988 Stars and Bars Henderson Dores Pat O'Connor
1989 My Left Foot Christy Brown Jim Sheridan
1989 Eversmile , New Jersey Fergus O'Connell Carlos Sorín
1992 The Last of the Mohicans Hawkeye ( Nathaniel Poe ) Michael Mann
1993 The Age of Innocence Newland Archer Martin Scorsese
1993 In the Name of the Father Gerry Conlon Jim Sheridan
1996 The Crucible John Proctor Nicholas Hytner
1997 The Boxer Danny Flynn Jim Sheridan
2002 Gangs of New York William Bill the Butcher Cutting Martin Scorsese
2005 The Ballad of Jack and Rose Jack Slavin Rebecca Miller
2007 There Will Be Blood Daniel Plainview Paul Thomas Anderson
2009 Nine Guido Contini Rob Marshall
2012 Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Steven Spielberg
Filmography -- Film
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a retired English actor. One of the most respected actors of his generation, he has also been hailed as one of the greatest actors in cinema history. He has received numerous awards throughout his career, including three Academy Awards for Best Actor, making him the only male actor to have three wins in the Best Actor category and one of only three male actors to win three Oscars. He won four BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. In June 2014, he received a knighthood for services to drama. Born and raised in London, Day-Lewis excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years. Despite his traditional training at the Bristol Old Vic, he is considered a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. Displaying a mercurial intensity, he would often remain completely in character throughout the shooting schedules of his films, even to the point of adversely affecting his health. He is one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only six films since 1998, with as many as five years between roles. Protective of his private life, he rarely gives interviews, and makes very few public appearances. Day-Lewis shifted between theatre and film for most of the early 1980s, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company and playing Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream, before appearing in the 1984 film The Bounty. He starred in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), his first critically acclaimed role, and gained further public notice with A Room with a View (1985).