Editing Daniel Day-Lewis (section)

==Early life and education ==
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Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis was born on 29 April 1957 in [[Kensington]], London, the second child of the poet [[Cecil Day-Lewis]] (1904–1972) and his second wife, actress [[Jill Balcon]] (1925–2009). His older sister, [[Tamasin Day-Lewis]] (born 1953), is a television chef and food critic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=DeLjrKEf5frx%2Fn68GwLTBw&scan=1|title=Index entry|access-date=28 March 2016|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS|archive-date=27 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227121742/http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=DeLjrKEf5frx%2Fn68GwLTBw&scan=1|url-status=live}}</ref> His father, who was born in the Irish town of Ballintubbert, [[County Laois]], was of [[Protestant]] Anglo-Irish descent, lived in England from age two, and was appointed [[Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom|Poet Laureate]] in 1968.<ref>Peter Stanford (2007). [https://books.google.com/books?id=M3jUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA5 "C Day-Lewis: A Life"]. p. 5. A&C Black</ref> Day-Lewis's mother was [[British Jewish|Jewish]]; her [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi Jewish]] ancestors were immigrants to England in the late 19th century, from [[History of the Jews in Latvia|Latvia]] and [[History of the Jews in Poland|Poland]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Nick|last=Hasted|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/daniel-day-lewis-phantom-thread-paul-thomas-anderson-oscar-lincoln-my-left-foot-gangs-of-new-york-a8187306.html|title=Daniel Day-Lewis: Why Britain has just lost its De Niro|work=[[The Independent]]|date=31 January 2018|access-date=8 May 2018|archive-date=8 June 2022|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220608/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/daniel-day-lewis-phantom-thread-paul-thomas-anderson-oscar-lincoln-my-left-foot-gangs-of-new-york-a8187306.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Keren|last=David|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/the-diary/jewish-actor-daniel-day-lewis-opens-up-on-his-decision-to-quit-acting-1.449248|title=Daniel Day-Lewis opens up on his decision to quit acting|work=The Jewish Chronicle|date=29 November 2017|access-date=8 May 2018|archive-date=2 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502154355/https://www.thejc.com/news/the-diary/jewish-actor-daniel-day-lewis-opens-up-on-his-decision-to-quit-acting-1.449248|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="dlwis1">{{Cite book|last=Jackson|first=Laura|title=Daniel Day-Lewis: the biography|publisher=Blake|year=2005|page=3|isbn=1-85782-557-8|quote=Michael Balcon's family were Latvian refugees from [[Riga]] who had come to England in the second half of the 19th century. The family of his wife, Aileen Leatherman, whom he married in 1924, came from Poland.}}</ref><ref name="2007refdec">{{cite news|title=Day-Lewis gets Oscar nod for new film |work=Kent News |url=http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Day__Lewis-gets-Oscar-nod-for-new-film-newsinkent7935.aspx?news=local |date=17 December 2007 |access-date=9 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080201062513/http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Day__Lewis-gets-Oscar-nod-for-new-film-newsinkent7935.aspx?news=local |archive-date=1 February 2008 }}</ref> Day-Lewis's maternal grandfather, Sir [[Michael Balcon]], became the head of [[Ealing Studios]], helping develop the new British film industry.<ref name="refdec3">{{cite news|last=Pearlman |first=Cindy |title=Day-Lewis isn't suffering: 'It's a joy' |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=30 December 2007 |url=http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/pearlman/718435,SHO-Sunday-lewis30.article |access-date=9 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102093324/http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/pearlman/718435%2CSHO-Sunday-lewis30.article |archive-date= 2 January 2008 }}</ref> The [[BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award|BAFTA for Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema]] is presented every year in honour of Balcon's memory.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bafta.org/film/curzon-outstanding-british-contribution-to-cinema|title=Curzon &#124; Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema|date=31 January 2017|website=www.bafta.org|access-date=29 April 2020|archive-date=7 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107110834/https://www.bafta.org/film/curzon-outstanding-british-contribution-to-cinema|url-status=live}}</ref>

Two years after Day-Lewis's birth, he moved with his family to [[Croom's Hill]] in [[Greenwich]] via [[Port Clarence]], [[County Durham]]. He and his older sister did not see much of their older two half-brothers, who had been teenagers when Day-Lewis's father divorced their mother.<ref name="WashingtonPost">{{cite news|last1=Segal|first1=David|title=Daniel Day-Lewis, Behaving Totally In Character|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14557-2005Mar30.html|access-date=28 January 2018|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=31 March 2005|archive-date=11 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111020035/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14557-2005Mar30.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Living in Greenwich (he attended Invicta and Sherington Primary Schools),<ref name="InfoSoc">{{cite web|title=Things You Might Not Have Done In Greenwich: Go on a Daniel Day-Lewis Tour|url=http://www.informationsociety.co.uk/things-you-might-not-have-done-in-greenwich/|website=Information Society|access-date=19 January 2017|archive-date=31 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131192938/http://www.informationsociety.co.uk/things-you-might-not-have-done-in-greenwich/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Day-Lewis had to deal with tough south London children. At this school, he was bullied for being both Jewish and "posh".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/where-did-you-go-to-my-lovely-1278973.html|title=Where did you go to, my lovely?|date=16 February 1997|website=The Independent|access-date=9 May 2019|archive-date=9 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509122112/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/where-did-you-go-to-my-lovely-1278973.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="dashing">{{cite magazine|first=Richard|last=Corliss|title=Cinema: Dashing Daniel|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980338,00.html|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=28 January 2018|date=21 March 1994|archive-date=11 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411100332/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980338,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He mastered the local accent and mannerisms, and credits that as being his first convincing performance.<ref name="dashing"/><ref name="Fires"/> Later in life, he has been known to speak of himself as a disorderly character in his younger years, often in trouble for shoplifting and other petty crimes.<ref name="Fires">Jenkins, Garry. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000R9II4O ''Daniel Day-Lewis: The Fires Within''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227131041/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000R9II4O |date=27 February 2020 }}. St. Martin's Press, 1994, ASIN B000R9II4O</ref><ref name="OnlineBio">{{cite web|title=Daniel Day-Lewis – Biography|url=http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/daniel-day-lewis/biography/24|website=TalkTalk|access-date=26 February 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016233306/http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/daniel-day-lewis/biography/24|archive-date=16 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1968, Day-Lewis's parents, finding his behaviour to be too wild, sent him as a boarder to the independent [[Sevenoaks School]] in Kent.<ref name="OnlineBio"/> At the school, he was introduced to his three most prominent interests: woodworking, acting, and fishing. However, his disdain for the school grew, and after two years at Sevenoaks, he was transferred to another independent school, [[Bedales School|Bedales]] in [[Petersfield, Hampshire]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Tatler List |url=http://www.tatler.com/the-tatler-list |website=Tatler|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205224814/http://www.tatler.com/the-tatler-list|archive-date=5 February 2016}}</ref> His sister was already a student there, and it had a more relaxed and creative ethos.<ref name="OnlineBio"/> He made his film debut at age 14 in ''[[Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)|Sunday Bloody Sunday]]'', in which he played a vandal in an uncredited role. He described the experience as "heaven" for getting paid £2 to vandalise expensive cars parked outside his local church.<ref name="WashingtonPost"/>

For a few weeks in 1972, the Day-Lewis family lived at [[Lemmons]], the north London home of [[Kingsley Amis]] and [[Elizabeth Jane Howard]]. Day-Lewis's father had [[pancreatic cancer]], and Howard invited the family to Lemmons as a place they could use to rest and recuperate. His father died there in May that year.<ref>{{cite news|first=Ian|last=Sansom|title=Great dynasties of the world: The Day-Lewises|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/03/great-dynasties-day-lewis-amis|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=3 April 2010|access-date=8 February 2018|archive-date=27 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827215149/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/03/great-dynasties-day-lewis-amis|url-status=live}}</ref> By the time he left Bedales in 1975, Day-Lewis's unruly attitude had diminished and he needed to make a career choice. Although he had excelled on stage at the [[National Youth Theatre]] in London, he applied for a five-year apprenticeship as a cabinet maker. He was turned down due to a lack of experience.<ref name="OnlineBio"/> He was accepted at the [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]], which he attended for three years along with [[Miranda Richardson]], eventually performing at the [[Bristol Old Vic]] itself.<ref name="OnlineBio"/> At one point he played understudy to [[Pete Postlethwaite]], with whom he would later co-star in the film ''In the Name of the Father'' (1994).<ref>{{cite news|last1=Wolf|first1=Matt|title=FILM; Pete Postlethwaite Turns a Prison Stint Into Oscar Material|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/movies/film-pete-postlethwaite-turns-a-prison-stint-into-oscar-material.html|access-date=6 January 2009|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=13 March 1994|archive-date=8 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108225203/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/movies/film-pete-postlethwaite-turns-a-prison-stint-into-oscar-material.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

John Hartoch, Day-Lewis's acting teacher at Bristol Old Vic, recalled:
{{blockquote|There was something about him even then. He was quiet and polite, but he was clearly focused on his acting—he had a burning quality. He seemed to have something burning beneath the surface. There was a lot going on beneath that quiet appearance. There was one performance in particular, when the students put on a play called ''[[Class Enemy (play)|Class Enemy]]'', when he really seemed to shine—and it became obvious to us, the staff, that we had someone rather special on our hands.<ref name="Hartoch"/>}}