Editing Daniel Day-Lewis

{{Short description|English actor (born 1957)}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix   = [[Sir]]
| name               = Daniel Day-Lewis
| image              = Daniel Day Lewis 26 May 2013.jpg
| caption            = Day-Lewis in 2013
| birth_name         = Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1957|4|29}}
| birth_place        = London, England<!--No boroughs/neighbourhoods, just cities per format.-->
| citizenship        = {{hlist|United Kingdom|Ireland}}
| occupation         = Actor
| alma_mater         = [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]]
| years_active       = 1971–1997; 2000–2017; 2024–present
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Rebecca Miller]]|1996}}
| partner            = [[Isabelle Adjani]] (1989–1995)
| children           = 3
| father             = [[Cecil Day-Lewis]]
| mother             = [[Jill Balcon]]
| relatives          = {{Plainlist|
* [[Tamasin Day-Lewis]] (sister)
* [[Michael Balcon]] (grandfather)
* [[Miranda Shearer]] (niece)
* [[Arthur Miller]] (father-in-law)
* [[Inge Morath]] (mother-in-law)
}}
| awards             = [[List of awards and nominations received by Daniel Day-Lewis|Full list]]
}}

'''Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis''' (born 29 April 1957) is an English actor.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Appelo|first1=Tim|title=Daniel Day-Lewis Spoofs Clint Eastwood's Obama Chair Routine at Britannia Awards (Video)|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/daniel-day-lewis-spoofs-clint-387642|access-date=19 April 2013|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=8 November 2012|quote=I know as an Englishman it's absolutely none of my business.|archive-date=1 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201190125/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/daniel-day-lewis-spoofs-clint-387642|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=20 March 2006|title=Daniel Day-Lewis Q&A; -  |url=http://www.timeout.com/film/news/997/daniel-day-lewis-q-a.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115150250/http://www.timeout.com/film/news/997/daniel-day-lewis-q-a.html
 |archive-date=15 November 2011 |access-date=13 January 2024 |website=timeout.com |quote="If I really chose to look at myself, I'd say that probably the thing I'm least interested in about myself is the fact that I'm a middle-class Englishman."}}</ref> Often described as one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, he is the recipient of [[List of awards and nominations received by Daniel Day-Lewis|numerous accolades]], including three [[Academy Awards]], four [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Awards]], three [[Screen Actors Guild Awards]] and two [[Golden Globe Awards]]. In 2014, Day-Lewis received a [[Knight Bachelor|knighthood]] for services to drama.<ref name="knighthood">{{cite news |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27813303 |title= Queen's Honours: Day-Lewis receives knighthood |work= [[BBC News]] |date= 13 June 2014 |access-date= 14 June 2014 |archive-date= 8 February 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210208084540/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27813303 |url-status= live }}</ref>

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 acting|method actor]], known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles.<ref name="Tele2013" /><ref name="sojourner">{{cite news|last1=Parker|first1=Emily|title=Sojourner in Other Men's Souls|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120105413744408621|access-date=28 January 2018|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=23 January 2008|archive-date=23 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823210507/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120105413744408621|url-status=live}}</ref> Protective of his private life, he rarely grants interviews and makes very few public appearances.<ref name="Telegraph 2013">{{cite news|title=My brother Daniel Day-Lewis won't talk to me any more|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/9902698/My-brother-Daniel-Day-Lewis-wont-talk-to-me-any-more.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/9902698/My-brother-Daniel-Day-Lewis-wont-talk-to-me-any-more.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|last=Rainey|first=Sarah|work=The Telegraph|date=1 March 2013|access-date=4 June 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Day-Lewis shifted between theatre and film for most of the early 1980s, joining the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] and playing [[Romeo|Romeo Montague]] in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' and [[Francis Flute|Flute]] in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''. Playing the [[Prince Hamlet|title role]] in ''[[Hamlet]]'' at the  [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] in London in 1989, he left the stage midway through a performance after breaking down during a scene where the [[Ghost (Hamlet)|ghost of Hamlet's father]] appears before him—this was his last appearance on the stage.<ref>{{cite news|title=Did Daniel Day-Lewis see his father's ghost as Hamlet? That is the question …|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/oct/29/daniel-day-lewis-hamlet-ghost|access-date=7 January 2020|newspaper=The Guardian|date=12 October 2012|archive-date=14 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114224451/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/oct/29/daniel-day-lewis-hamlet-ghost|url-status=live}}</ref> After supporting film roles in ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'' (1982) and ''[[The Bounty (1984 film)|The Bounty]]'' (1984), he earned acclaim for his breakthrough performances in ''[[My Beautiful Laundrette]]'' (1985), ''[[A Room with a View (1985 film)|A Room with a View]]'' (1985), and ''[[The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)|The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]'' (1988).

He earned three [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Academy Awards for Best Actor]] for his roles as [[Christy Brown]] in ''[[My Left Foot]]'' (1989), an [[oil tycoon]] in ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'' (2007), and [[Abraham Lincoln]] in ''[[Lincoln (film)|Lincoln]]'' (2012). He was Oscar-nominated for ''[[In the Name of the Father]]'' (1993), ''[[Gangs of New York]]'' (2002), and ''[[Phantom Thread]]'' (2017). Other notable films include ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' (1992), ''[[The Age of Innocence (1993 film)|The Age of Innocence]]'' (1993), ''[[The Crucible (1996 film)|The Crucible]]'' (1996), and ''[[The Boxer (1997 film)|The Boxer]]'' (1997). He retired from acting twice, from 1997 to 2000, when he took up a new profession as an apprentice [[Shoemaking|shoe-maker]] in Italy, and from 2017 to 2024.

==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"/>}}

==Career==
{{See also|List of awards and nominations received by Daniel Day-Lewis}}

===1980s===
During the early 1980s, Day-Lewis worked in theatre and television, including ''Frost in May'' (where he played an impotent man-child) and ''How Many Miles to Babylon?'' (as a [[World War I]] officer torn between allegiances to Britain and Ireland) for the [[BBC]]. Eleven years after his film debut, Day-Lewis had a small part in the film ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'' (1982) as Colin, a South African street thug who racially bullies the title character. In late 1982, he had his big theatre break when he took over the lead in ''[[Another Country (play)|Another Country]]'', which premiered in late 1981. Next, he took on a supporting role as the conflicted, but ultimately loyal, [[John Fryer (sailor)|first mate]] in ''[[The Bounty (1984 film)|The Bounty]]'' (1984). He next joined the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]], playing [[Romeo Montague|Romeo]] in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' and Flute in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''.<ref name="OnlineBio"/>

In 1985, Day-Lewis gave his first critically acclaimed performance playing a young gay English man in an [[miscegenation|interracial relationship]] with a Pakistani youth in the film ''[[My Beautiful Laundrette]]''. Directed by [[Stephen Frears]], and written by [[Hanif Kureishi]], the film is set in 1980s London during [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s tenure as Prime Minister.<ref name="Telegraph 2013"/> It is the first of three Day-Lewis films to appear in the [[British Film Institute|BFI]]'s [[BFI Top 100 British films|100 greatest British films of the 20th century]], ranking 50th.<ref>{{cite web|title=British Film Institute – Top 100 British Films|url=http://www.cinemarealm.com/best-of-cinema/top-100-british-films/|website=cinemarealm.com|access-date=26 October 2017|archive-date=12 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112022753/http://www.cinemarealm.com/best-of-cinema/top-100-british-films/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Daniel Day-Lewis - The Unbearable Lightness of Being.jpg|thumb|Day-Lewis in ''[[The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)|The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]'' (1988)]]
Day-Lewis gained further public notice that year with ''[[A Room with a View (1985 film)|A Room with a View]]'' (1985), based on the novel by [[E. M. Forster]]. Set in the [[Edwardian period|Edwardian]] period of turn-of-the-20th-century England, he portrayed an entirely different character: Cecil Vyse, the proper upper-class fiancé of the main character Lucy Honeychurch (played by [[Helena Bonham Carter]]).<ref>{{cite web |title=Daniel Day-Lewis |url=http://theoscarsite.com/whoswho7/daylewis_d.htm |website=The Oscar Site |access-date=6 January 2009 |archive-date=7 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007180639/http://theoscarsite.com/whoswho7/daylewis_d.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1987, Day-Lewis assumed leading man status by starring in [[Philip Kaufman]]'s adaptation of [[Milan Kundera]]'s ''[[The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)|The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]'', in which he portrayed a Czech surgeon whose hyperactive sex life is thrown into disarray when he allows himself to become emotionally involved with a woman. During the eight-month shoot, he learned [[Czech language|Czech]], and first began to refuse to break character on or off the set for the entire shooting schedule.<ref name="OnlineBio"/> During this period, Day-Lewis was regarded as "one of Britain’s most exciting young actors".<ref name="Hamlet"/> He and other young British actors of the time, such as [[Gary Oldman]], [[Colin Firth]], [[Tim Roth]], and [[Bruce Payne]], were dubbed the "[[Brit Pack (actors)|Brit Pack]]".<ref name="beast">{{cite web|first=Marlow|last=Stern|title=Gary Oldman Talks "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", "Batman" Retirement|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/gary-oldman-talks-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-batman-retirement|website=The Daily Beast|access-date=10 December 2013|date=8 December 2011|archive-date=30 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171130114930/https://www.thedailybeast.com/gary-oldman-talks-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-batman-retirement|url-status=live}}</ref>

Day-Lewis progressed his personal version of [[method acting]] in 1989 with his performance as [[Christy Brown]] in [[Jim Sheridan]]'s ''[[My Left Foot]]''. It won him numerous awards, including the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] and [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor]]. Brown, known as a writer and painter, was born with [[cerebral palsy]], and was able to control only his left foot.<ref name="Telegraph 2008"/> Day-Lewis prepared for the role by making frequent visits to [[Sandymount|Sandymount School Clinic]] in Dublin, where he formed friendships with several people with disabilities, some of whom had no speech.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Good Samaritans – Memoir of a Biographer |first= Anthony J.| last= Jordan |publisher= Westport Books |year= 2008 |isbn= 978-0-9524447-5-6 |page=40}}</ref> During filming, he again refused to break character.<ref name="OnlineBio"/> Playing a severely paralysed character on screen, off-screen Day-Lewis had to be moved around the set in his wheelchair, and crew members would curse at having to lift him over camera and lighting wires, all so that he might gain insight into all aspects of Brown's life, including the embarrassments.<ref name="Fires"/> Crew members were also required to [[spoon-feed]] him.<ref name="Telegraph 2008"/> It was rumoured that he had broken two ribs during filming from assuming a hunched-over position in his wheelchair for so many weeks, something he denied years later at the 2013 [[Santa Barbara International Film Festival]].<ref name="Makingof">''An Inspirational Journey: The Making of My Left Foot'' DVD, Miramax Films, 2005</ref>

[[File:Royal National Theatre (2017).jpg|thumb|right|Day-Lewis played Hamlet in [[Richard Eyre]]'s 1989 production of ''Hamlet'' at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]], London (pictured), his final appearance on the stage]]
Day-Lewis returned to the stage in 1989 to work with [[Richard Eyre]], as the [[Prince Hamlet|title character]] in ''[[Hamlet]]'' at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]], London, but during a performance collapsed during the scene where the [[Ghost (Hamlet)|ghost of Hamlet's father]] appears before him.<ref name="OnlineBio"/> He began sobbing uncontrollably, and refused to go back on stage; he was replaced by [[Jeremy Northam]], who gave a triumphant performance.<ref name="Hamlet">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-18-ca-254-story.html|title=A Punishing System's Stress Chews Up Another Hamlet|access-date=1 August 2020|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|first=John|last=Vidal|date=18 September 1989|archive-date=25 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125231813/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-18-ca-254-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Ian Charleson]] formally replaced Day-Lewis for the rest of the run.<ref>[[John Peter (critic)|Peter, John]]. "A Hamlet Who Would Be King at Elsinore". ''[[Sunday Times]]''. 12 November 1989.</ref> Earlier in the run, Day-Lewis had talked of the "demons" in the role, and for weeks he threw himself passionately into the part.<ref name="Hamlet"/> Although the incident was officially attributed to exhaustion, Day-Lewis claimed to have seen the ghost of his own father.<ref name="OnlineBio"/><ref name="timeout">{{cite web|title=Daniel Day-Lewis Q&A|url=http://www.timeout.com/film/news/997/daniel-day-lewis-q-a.html|website=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]|access-date=28 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116203841/http://www.timeout.com/film/news/997/daniel-day-lewis-q-a.html|archive-date=16 January 2013|date=20 March 2006}}</ref> He later explained that this was more of a metaphor than a hallucination. "To some extent I probably saw my father’s ghost every night, because of course if you’re working in a play like ''Hamlet'', you explore everything through your own experience."<ref name="method master">{{cite news |title=Daniel Day-Lewis: 10 defining roles from the method master |date=31 January 2018 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3YyMsjqxVBMgJDfvPRFZtpb/daniel-day-lewis-10-defining-roles-from-the-method-master |access-date=21 May 2020 |agency=BBC |archive-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112013623/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3YyMsjqxVBMgJDfvPRFZtpb/daniel-day-lewis-10-defining-roles-from-the-method-master |url-status=live }}</ref> He has not appeared on stage since.<ref>{{cite news |title=Daniel Day-Lewis Quits Acting: A History of His Fascinating Retirement Attempts |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/06/daniel-day-lewis-acting-hollywood |access-date=17 July 2020 |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |first=Julie |last=Miller |date=20 June 2017 |archive-date=4 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204055148/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/06/daniel-day-lewis-acting-hollywood |url-status=live }}</ref> The media attention following his breakdown on-stage contributed to his decision to eventually move from England to Ireland in the mid-1990s, to regain a sense of privacy amidst his increasing fame.<ref>{{cite news |title=Daniel Day-Lewis |author=Jessica Winter |newspaper=[[The Observer Magazine]] |date=20 January 2013 }}</ref>

===1990s===
Day-Lewis starred in the American film ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' (1992), based on a [[The Last of the Mohicans|novel]] by [[James Fenimore Cooper]]. Day-Lewis's character research for this film was well-publicised; he reportedly underwent rigorous weight training and learned to live off the land and forest where his character lived, camping, hunting, and fishing.<ref name="OnlineBio"/> Day-Lewis also added to his wood-working skills, and learned how to make canoes.<ref>{{cite news |first=Geoffrey |last=Macnab |title=The madness of Daniel Day-Lewis – a unique Method that has led to a deserved third Oscar |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-madness-of-daniel-daylewis--a-unique-method-that-has-led-to-a-deserved-third-oscar-8510704.html |access-date=2 September 2013 |date=25 February 2013 |archive-date=6 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206073157/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-madness-of-daniel-daylewis--a-unique-method-that-has-led-to-a-deserved-third-oscar-8510704.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He carried a [[long rifle]] at all times during filming to remain in character.<ref name="OnlineBio"/><ref name="tcm">{{cite web |title=Daniel Day-Lewis |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/45745%7C183579/Daniel-Day-Lewis/ |website=Turner Classic Movies |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |access-date=7 January 2010 |archive-date=7 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607020418/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/45745%7C183579/Daniel-Day-Lewis/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

{{Quote box|width=30%|align=right|quote=Stories of his immersion in roles are legion. Playing [[Gerry Conlon]] in ''In the Name of the Father'', Day-Lewis lived on [[Prison food|prison rations]] to lose 30 lb, spent extended periods in the jail cell on set, went without sleep for two days, was interrogated for three days by real policemen, and asked that the crew hurl abuse and cold water at him. For ''[[The Boxer (1997 film)|The Boxer]]'' in 1997, he trained for weeks with the former world champion [[Barry McGuigan]], who said that he became good enough to turn professional. The actor's injuries include a broken nose and a damaged disc in his lower back.|source={{mdash}}"Daniel Day-Lewis aims for perfection". Article published in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' on 22 February 2008<ref name="Telegraph 2008"/>}}
He returned to work with Jim Sheridan on ''[[In the Name of the Father]]'' in which he played [[Gerry Conlon]], one of the [[Guildford Four]], who were wrongfully convicted of a bombing carried out by the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]]. He lost 2[[Stone (unit)|st]] 2&nbsp;lb (30&nbsp;lb or 14&nbsp;kg) for the part, kept his [[Ulster English|Northern Irish accent]] on and off the set for the entire shooting schedule, and spent stretches of time in a prison cell.<ref name="tcm"/> He insisted that crew members throw cold water at him and verbally abuse him.<ref name="tcm"/> Starring opposite [[Emma Thompson]] (who played his lawyer [[Gareth Peirce]]), and [[Pete Postlethwaite]], Day-Lewis earned his second Academy Award nomination, third BAFTA nomination, and second Golden Globe nomination.<ref>{{cite news|last=Fox |first=David J. |title=Oscar's Favorite 'List' : The Nominations : 'Schindler's' Sweeps Up With 12 Nods : 'The Piano' and 'The Remains of the Day' both receive eight nominations; 'Fugitive,' 'In the Name of the Father' earn seven |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-10-ca-21449-story.html |access-date=10 March 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=10 February 1994 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203080052/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-02-10/entertainment/ca-21449_1_oscar-nominations |archive-date=3 December 2013 }}</ref>

Day-Lewis returned to the US in 1993, playing Newland Archer in [[Martin Scorsese]]'s [[The Age of Innocence (1993 film)|adaptation]] of the [[Edith Wharton]] novel ''[[The Age of Innocence]]''. Day-Lewis starred opposite [[Michelle Pfeiffer]], and [[Winona Ryder]]. To prepare for the film, set in America's [[Gilded Age]], he wore 1870s-period [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocratic]] clothing around New York City for two months, including [[top hat]], cane, and cape.<ref>{{cite web |title=Daniel Day-Lewis |url=http://www.helloonline.com/profiles/daniel-day-lewis/ |work=Hello! |access-date=7 January 2010 |archive-date=29 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130429124111/http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/daniel-day-lewis/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Although Day-Lewis was sceptical of the role, thinking himself "too English" for it and hoping for something "more rough-and-tumble", he accepted due to Scorsese directing the film.<ref>{{cite news |title=Daniel Day-Lewis: the perfectionist |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3669814/Daniel-Day-Lewis-the-perfectionist.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3669814/Daniel-Day-Lewis-the-perfectionist.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=21 May 2020 |work=The Telegraph|first=Lynn|last=Hirschberg|date=8 December 2007}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The film was critically well received, while [[Peter Travers]] in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' wrote: "Day-Lewis is smashing as the man caught between his emotions and the social ethic. Not since Olivier in ''[[Wuthering Heights (1939 film)|Wuthering Heights]]'' has an actor matched piercing intelligence with such imposing good looks and physical grace."<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-age-of-innocence-2-246724/ | first=Peter | last=Travers | author-link=Peter Travers | title=The Age of Innocence: Review | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=16 September 1993 | access-date=12 May 2021 | archive-date=7 January 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107124530/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-age-of-innocence-2-246724/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1996, Day-Lewis starred in the film adaptation of [[Arthur Miller]]'s play ''[[The Crucible (1996 film)|The Crucible]]'' reunited with Winona Ryder, and starred alongside [[Paul Scofield]], and [[Joan Allen]]. During the shoot, he met his future wife, [[Rebecca Miller]], the author's daughter.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://arabia.msn.com/gallery/Details.aspx?AlbumId=494131%7C488157&PicID=494142&Num=9&CatId=25&region=all |title=Daniel Day-Lewis &#124; Ryder's Romances Winona's long list of loves lost &#124; MSN Arabia Photo Gallery |website=Arabia.msn.com |access-date=9 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126075536/http://arabia.msn.com/gallery/Details.aspx?AlbumId=494131%7C488157&PicID=494142&Num=9&CatId=25&region=all |archive-date=26 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Owen Gleiberman]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave the film a grade of "A", calling the adaptation "joltingly powerful" and noting the "spectacularly" acted performances of Day-Lewis, Scofield, and Allen.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://ew.com/article/1996/11/29/movie-review-crucible/|title=Movie Review: 'The Crucible'|date=29 November 1996|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|author=[[Owen Gleiberman]]|access-date=20 May 2017|archive-date=8 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108225856/https://ew.com/article/1996/11/29/movie-review-crucible/|url-status=live}}</ref> He followed that with Jim Sheridan's ''[[The Boxer (1997 film)|The Boxer]]'' alongside [[Emily Watson]], starring as a former boxer and IRA member recently released from prison. His preparation included training with former boxing world champion [[Barry McGuigan]]. Immersing himself into the boxing scene, he watched [[Naseem Hamed|"Prince" Naseem Hamed]] train, and attended professional boxing matches such as the [[Nigel Benn vs. Gerald McClellan]] world title fight at [[London Arena]].<ref name="askmen">{{cite web |title=Daniel Day-Lewis |url=http://www.askmen.com/celebs/men/entertainment/daniel-day-lewis/index.html |work=[[AskMen]] |access-date=7 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523073827/http://www.askmen.com/celebs/men/entertainment/daniel-day-lewis/index.html |archive-date=23 May 2013  }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author-link=Barry McGuigan |last=McGuigan |first=Barry |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/mcclellans-return-must-get-the-game-to-care-449064 |title=McClellan's return must get the game to care more |date=22 January 2007 |access-date=13 June 2015 |work=[[Daily Mirror]] |archive-date=7 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107124539/https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/mcclellans-return-must-get-the-game-to-care-449064 |url-status=live }}</ref> Impressed with his work in the ring, McGuigan felt Day-Lewis could have become a professional boxer, commenting, "If you eliminate the top ten middleweights in Britain, any of the other guys Daniel could have gone in and fought."<ref name="method master"/>

Following ''The Boxer'', Day-Lewis took a leave of absence from acting by going into "semi-retirement" and returning to his old passion of woodworking.<ref name="askmen"/> He moved to [[Florence]], Italy, where he became intrigued by the craft of [[shoe-making]]. He apprenticed as a shoe-maker with [[Stefano Bemer]].<ref name="OnlineBio"/> For a time, his exact whereabouts and actions were not made publicly known.<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite news|title=Daniel Day Lewis: Biography|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/17559/Daniel-Day-Lewis/biography|access-date=28 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104191629/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/17559/Daniel-Day-Lewis/biography|archive-date=4 January 2016|work=The New York Times |author=Rebecca Flint Marx|date=2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===2000s===
[[File:Daniel Day-Lewis 2007.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Day-Lewis in New York, 2007]]
After a three-year absence from acting on screen, Day-Lewis returned to film by reuniting with [[Martin Scorsese]] for ''[[Gangs of New York]]'' (2002). He took on the role of villainous gang leader [[William Poole|William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting]], starring opposite [[Leonardo DiCaprio]], who played Bill's young protégé as well as [[Cameron Diaz]], [[Jim Broadbent]], [[John C. Reilly]], [[Brendan Gleeson]], and [[Liam Neeson]]. To help him get into character, he hired circus performers to teach him to throw knives.<ref name="Telegraph 2008"/> While filming, he was never out of character between takes (including keeping his character's [[New York accent]]).<ref name="OnlineBio"/> At one point during filming, having been diagnosed with [[pneumonia]], he refused to wear a warmer coat, or to take treatment, because it was not in keeping with the period; he was eventually persuaded to seek medical treatment.<ref name="Telegraph 2008">{{cite news |title=Daniel Day-Lewis aims for perfection |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579473/Daniel-Day-Lewis-aims-for-perfection.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579473/Daniel-Day-Lewis-aims-for-perfection.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=22 February 2008 |access-date=1 January 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The film divided critics while Day-Lewis received plaudits for his portrayal of Bill the Butcher. [[Rotten Tomatoes]]'s critical consensus reads, "Though flawed, the sprawling, messy ''Gangs of New York'' is redeemed by impressive production design and Day-Lewis's electrifying performance."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gangs_of_new_york |title=Gangs of New York (2002) |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |date=20 December 2002 |publisher=[[Fandango Media]] |access-date=19 October 2019 |archive-date=17 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517024515/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gangs_of_new_york/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It earned Day-Lewis his third [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nomination, and won him his second [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Allison|first1=Rebecca|title=Britain's big Bafta night as The Hours has the edge on Hollywood blockbusters|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/feb/24/filmawards.filmnews|access-date=27 October 2017|work=The Guardian|date=24 February 2003|archive-date=22 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322065522/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/feb/24/filmawards.filmnews|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Daniel Day-Lewis at the 61st British Academy Film Awards in London, UK - 20080210.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Day-Lewis at the [[61st British Academy Film Awards|2008 British Academy Film Awards]]]]
In the early 2000s, Day-Lewis's wife, director [[Rebecca Miller]], offered him the lead role in her film ''[[The Ballad of Jack and Rose]]'', in which he played a dying man with regrets over how his life had evolved, and over how he had brought up his teenage daughter. While filming, he arranged to live separately from his wife to achieve the "isolation" needed to focus on his own character's reality.<ref name="WashingtonPost"/> The film received mixed reviews.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Ballad of Jack and Rose|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ballad_of_jack_and_rose/|website=Rotten Tomatoes|date=25 March 2005 |access-date=12 October 2008|archive-date=30 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130165522/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ballad_of_jack_and_rose|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2007, Day-Lewis starred alongside [[Paul Dano]] in [[Paul Thomas Anderson]]'s loose film adaptation of [[Upton Sinclair]]'s novel ''[[Oil!]]'', titled ''[[There Will Be Blood]]''.<ref name="Variety">{{cite news|last1=Fleming|first1=Michael|last2=Mohr|first2=Ian|title="Blood" lust for Par and Miramax|url=https://variety.com/2006/film/features/blood-lust-for-par-and-miramax-1117936317/|access-date=28 January 2018|date=17 January 2006|archive-date=7 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107124529/https://variety.com/2006/film/features/blood-lust-for-par-and-miramax-1117936317/|url-status=live}}</ref> The film received widespread critical acclaim, with critic [[Andrew Sarris]] calling the film "an impressive achievement in its confident expertness in rendering the simulated realities of a bygone time and place, largely with an inspired use of regional amateur actors and extras with all the right moves and sounds."<ref name="Sarris">{{cite news |last=Sarris |first=Andrew |title=Oil, Oil Everywhere! |work=[[The New York Observer]] |date=17 December 2007 }}</ref> Day-Lewis received the Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama]], [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role]] (which he dedicated to [[Heath Ledger]], who had died five days earlier, saying he was inspired by Ledger's acting and calling the actor's performance in ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' "unique, perfect"),<ref>{{cite news |first=Amy |last=Diluna |author2=Joe Neumaier |title=Daniel Day-Lewis Honors Heath Ledger during Screen Actors Guild Awards |work=New York Daily News |date=27 January 2008 |access-date=16 February 2008 |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/daniel-day-lewis-honors-heath-ledger-screen-actors-guild-awards-article-1.343334 |archive-date=20 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020125539/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/daniel-day-lewis-honors-heath-ledger-screen-actors-guild-awards-article-1.343334 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Catherine|last=Elsworth|title=Daniel Day Lewis, Julie Christie win at Screen Actors Guild Awards|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3670802/Daniel-Day-Lewis-Julie-Christie-win-at-Screen-Actors-Guild-Awards.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3670802/Daniel-Day-Lewis-Julie-Christie-win-at-Screen-Actors-Guild-Awards.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|date=28 January 2008|access-date=3 December 2009|work=The Daily Telegraph }}{{cbignore}}</ref> and a variety of film critics' circle awards for the role. In winning the Best Actor Oscar, Day-Lewis joined [[Marlon Brando]] and [[Jack Nicholson]] as the only Best Actor winner awarded an Oscar in two non-consecutive decades.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jackson|first1=Laura|title=Daniel Day-Lewis – The Biography|date=2013|publisher=John Blake Publishing}}</ref>

In 2009, Day-Lewis starred in [[Rob Marshall]]'s musical adaptation ''[[Nine (2009 live-action film)|Nine]]'' as film director Guido Contini.<ref>{{cite web|title=Daniel Day-Lewis Signed for Nine Film; Rehearsals to Start in July; Shooting September|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Daniel-DayLewis-Signed-for-Nine-Film-Rehearsals-to-Start-in-July-Shooting-September-20080601|website=BroadwayWorld|access-date=28 January 2018|date=1 June 2008|archive-date=8 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108224914/https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Daniel-DayLewis-Signed-for-Nine-Film-Rehearsals-to-Start-in-July-Shooting-September-20080601|url-status=live}}</ref> The film featured a large ensemble of distinguished actresses, including [[Marion Cotillard]], [[Penélope Cruz]], [[Judi Dench]], [[Nicole Kidman]], and [[Sophia Loren]]. The film received mixed reviews, with overall praise for the performances of Day-Lewis, Cotillard, and Cruz. He was nominated for the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy]] and the [[Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy]] for his role, as well as sharing nominations for the [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture]] and the [[Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast]] and the [[Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture]] with the rest of the cast members.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Karger|first=Dave|title=Golden Globe nominations announced|url=http://oscar-watch.ew.com/2009/12/15/golden-globe-nominations-announced/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=15 December 2009|access-date=15 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114050205/http://oscar-watch.ew.com/2009/12/15/golden-globe-nominations-announced/|archive-date=14 January 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=14th Annual Satellite Awards|url=http://www.pressacademy.com/satawards/awards2009.shtml|website=pressacademy.com |publisher=International Press Academy|access-date=28 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718092922/http://www.pressacademy.com/satawards/awards2009.shtml|archive-date=18 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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===2010s===
[[File:Daniel Day Lewis at the White House.jpg|thumb|upright|Day-Lewis viewing the [[Gettysburg Address]] in the [[Lincoln Bedroom]] in the [[White House]], November 2012]]
Day-Lewis portrayed [[Abraham Lincoln]] in [[Steven Spielberg]]'s biopic ''[[Lincoln (film)|Lincoln]]'' (2012).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/nov/19/daniel-day-lewis-spielberg-lincoln|title=Daniel Day-Lewis set for Steven Spielberg's Lincoln film|newspaper=The Guardian|author=Shoard, Catherine|date=19 November 2010|access-date=20 November 2010|archive-date=17 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130917202405/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/nov/19/daniel-day-lewis-spielberg-lincoln|url-status=live}}</ref> Based on the book ''[[Team of Rivals|Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln]]'', the film began shooting in [[Richmond, Virginia]], in October 2011.<ref>{{cite news | last = McClintock | first = Pamela | title = Participant Media Boarding Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' (Exclusive) | magazine = [[The Hollywood Reporter]] | location = Los Angeles | date = 12 October 2011 | url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/participant-media-steven-spielberg-lincoln-247470 | access-date = 15 October 2011 | archive-date = 15 October 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111015040054/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/participant-media-steven-spielberg-lincoln-247470 | url-status = live }}</ref> Day-Lewis spent a year in preparation for the role, a time he had requested from Spielberg.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jordan |last=Zakarin |title=At 'Lincoln' Screening, Daniel Day-Lewis Explains How He Formed the President's Voice |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=26 October 2012 |access-date=7 November 2012 |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lincoln-daniel-day-lewis-voice-spielberg-383407 |archive-date=31 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031034420/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lincoln-daniel-day-lewis-voice-spielberg-383407 |url-status=live }}</ref> He read over 100 books on Lincoln, and long worked with the make-up artist to achieve a physical likeness to Lincoln. Speaking in Lincoln's voice throughout the entire shoot, Day-Lewis asked the British crew members who shared his native accent not to chat with him.<ref name="Telegraph Day-Lewis">{{cite news |title=Daniel Day-Lewis: the greatest screen actor ever? |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/9886193/Daniel-Day-Lewis-the-greatest-screen-actor-ever.html |access-date=16 June 2020 |newspaper=The Telegraph |archive-date=29 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129150136/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/9886193/Daniel-Day-Lewis-the-greatest-screen-actor-ever.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Spielberg said of Day-Lewis's portrayal, "I never once looked the gift horse in the mouth. I never asked Daniel about his process. I didn't want to know."<ref name="method master"/> ''Lincoln'' received critical acclaim, especially for Day-Lewis's performance. It also became a commercial success, grossing over $275 million worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ukscreen.com/articles/interviews/daniel-day-lewis-reveals-how-he-brought-lincoln-to-life/|title=Daniel Day-Lewis Reveals How He Brought Lincoln To Life|work=ukscreen.com|date=13 November 2012|access-date=16 November 2012|archive-date=17 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117041621/http://ukscreen.com/articles/interviews/daniel-day-lewis-reveals-how-he-brought-lincoln-to-life/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In November 2012, he received the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] [[Britannia Awards|Britannia Award]] for Excellence in Film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bafta.org/losangeles/awards/britannia-awards-winners,1252,BA.html|title=Britannia Award Honorees – Awards & Events – Los Angeles – The BAFTA site|website=bafta.org|publisher=[[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] (BAFTA)|access-date=31 July 2012|archive-date=9 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111109061122/http://www.bafta.org/losangeles/awards/britannia-awards-winners%2C1252%2CBA.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The same month, Day-Lewis featured on the [[List of covers of Time magazine (2010s)|cover of ''Time'' magazine]] as the "World's Greatest Actor".<ref name="Time 2012">{{cite news|first=Jessica|last=Winter|title=The World's Greatest Actor|url=https://content.time.com/time/covers/europe/0,16641,20121105,00.html|date=5 November 2012|magazine=Time|access-date=22 October 2015|archive-date=2 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002221510/http://content.time.com/time/covers/europe/0,16641,20121105,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

At the [[70th Golden Globe Awards]], on 14 January 2013, Day-Lewis won his second [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama|Golden Globe Award for Best Actor]], and at the [[66th British Academy Film Awards]] on 10 February, he won his fourth [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role]]. At the [[85th Academy Awards]], Day-Lewis became the first [[List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories|three-time recipient]] of the Best Actor Oscar for his role in ''Lincoln''.<ref name="huffingtonpost1">{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130224/us-oscars-actor/ |title=Day-Lewis wins record third best actor Oscar |website=The Huffington Post |agency=Associated Press| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231223722/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130224/us-oscars-actor/|archive-date=31 December 2013|access-date=25 February 2013 |date=25 February 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> John Hartoch, Day-Lewis's acting teacher at Bristol Old Vic theatre school, said of his former pupil's achievement:
{{blockquote|Although we have quite an impressive alumni – everyone from [[Jeremy Irons]] to [[Patrick Stewart]] – I suppose he is now probably the best known, and we're very proud of all he's achieved. I certainly hold him up to current students of an example, particularly as an example of how to manage your career with great integrity. He's never courted fame, and as a result, he's never had his private life impeached upon by the press. He's clearly not interested in celebrity as such – he's just interested in his acting. He is still a great craftsman.<ref name="Hartoch">{{cite news|title=Bristol Old Vic teacher who taught Daniel Day-Lewis recalls stars early days|url=http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Bristol-Old-Vic-teacher-taught-Daniel-Day-Lewis/story-18255612-detail/story.html|newspaper=[[Bristol Post]]|date=27 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225194004/http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Bristol-Old-Vic-teacher-taught-Daniel-Day-Lewis/story-18255612-detail/story.html|archive-date=25 December 2015}}</ref>}}

{{Quote box|width=25%|align=right|quote=He's like [[Laurence Olivier|Olivier]] in his prime. [Because he does so few movies], you expect something spectacular when he's got a film out. He's more selective than [[Marlon Brando|Brando]], and it's turned his movies into events.|source={{mdash}}David Poland on Day-Lewis, February 2013<ref name="USA Today">{{cite news|title=Is Daniel Day-Lewis now the greatest actor of all time?|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/02/24/daniel-day-lewis-oscars/1938091/|last=Bowles|first=Scott|work=USA Today|date=24 February 2013|access-date=28 June 2016|archive-date=10 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010010128/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/02/24/daniel-day-lewis-oscars/1938091/|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
Shortly after winning the Oscar for ''Lincoln'', Day-Lewis announced he would be taking a break from acting before making another film.<ref>{{cite web|title=Daniel Day-Lewis wants break from acting|url=http://movies.ndtv.com/hollywood/daniel-day-lewis-wants-break-from-acting-611006|publisher=NDTV Movies|access-date=3 February 2014|date=3 March 2013|archive-date=22 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922002351/http://movies.ndtv.com/hollywood/daniel-day-lewis-wants-break-from-acting-611006|url-status=live}}</ref> After a five-year hiatus, Day-Lewis returned to the screen to star in Paul Thomas Anderson's historical drama ''[[Phantom Thread]]'' (2017). Set in 1950s London, Day-Lewis played an obsessive dressmaker, Reynolds Woodcock, who falls in love with a waitress (played by [[Vicky Krieps]]).<ref>{{cite web|last1=King|first1=Susan|title=Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread" is one in a long line of Hollywood films on obsessive love|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-ca-mn-classic-hollywood-obsessive-love-20180112-story.html|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=24 January 2018|date=12 January 2018|archive-date=9 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109004857/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-ca-mn-classic-hollywood-obsessive-love-20180112-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The film and his performance were met with widespread acclaim from critics, and Day-Lewis was again nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.<ref>{{cite web|title=Phantom Thread (2018)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/phantom_thread/|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|date=19 January 2018 |access-date=23 January 2018|archive-date=3 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103043011/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/phantom_thread|url-status=live}}</ref>

Prior to the film's release in June 2017, Day-Lewis announced that he was retiring from acting.<ref name="BBCretirement">{{cite news|title=Film star Daniel Day-Lewis retires from acting|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40349669|access-date=21 June 2017|work=BBC News|date=21 June 2017|archive-date=21 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621132611/http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40349669|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Lang|first=Brent|date=20 June 2017|title=Shocker! Daniel Day-Lewis Quits Acting (Exclusive)|url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/daniel-day-lewis-quits-acting-oscar-winner-1202472766/|access-date=24 February 2022|website=Variety|archive-date=1 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001093714/https://variety.com/2017/film/news/daniel-day-lewis-quits-acting-oscar-winner-1202472766/|url-status=live}}</ref> In a November 2017 interview, Day-Lewis stated: "I need to believe in the value of what I'm doing. The work can seem vital, irresistible, even. And if an audience believes it, that should be good enough for me. But, lately, it isn't."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Nyren|first=Erin|url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/daniel-day-lewis-retirement-from-acting-why-1202625443/|title=Daniel Day-Lewis on Retirement From Acting: 'The Impulse to Quit Took Root in Me'|magazine=Variety|date=28 November 2017|access-date=22 December 2017|archive-date=23 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423224429/https://variety.com/2017/film/news/daniel-day-lewis-retirement-from-acting-why-1202625443/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 2020s ===
On 1 October 2024, after a seven-year absence, it was announced that Day-Lewis would return to acting. He is attached to star in ''[[Anemone (film)|Anemone]]'', the first film directed by his son, Ronan Day-Lewis, with whom Daniel co-wrote the script.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gajewski |first=Ryan |date=1 October 2024|title=Daniel Day-Lewis Sets Acting Return for 'Anemone' With Son Ronan Directing |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/daniel-day-lewis-anemone-ronan-1236019335/ |access-date=1 October 2024 |website=The Hollywood Reporter }}</ref>

== Technique and reputation ==
Day-Lewis is considered a [[method acting|method actor]], known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles.<ref name="Tele2013" /><ref name="sojourner"/> 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.<ref name="Simkins">{{cite news|last1=Simkins|first1=Michael|date=22 June 2017|title=Actors usually envy each other. But Daniel Day-Lewis is a class apart|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/22/actors-daniel-day-lewis-retiring|access-date=21 March 2019|quote=Most of us would start any list of those few truly exceptional actors – the shape-shifters as they are sometimes called, individuals who can inhabit another character in its entirety without ever lapsing into impersonation – with [[Marlon Brando]], then veer off into a truculent debate about whether [[Laurence Olivier]] was the greatest of them all or just an old ham with stale tricks. [[Robert De Niro]] would get a mention of course – [[Meryl Streep]], no doubt. But almost everyone would finish with Day-Lewis.|archive-date=22 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322083314/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/22/actors-daniel-day-lewis-retiring|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Telegraph 2008" /> 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.<ref name="frontier">{{cite news|last1=Hirschberg|first1=Lynn|title=The New Frontier's Man|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/magazine/11daylewis-t2.html|access-date=28 January 2018|work=[[The New York Times Magazine]]|date=11 November 2007|archive-date=31 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131052839/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/magazine/11daylewis-t2.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Protective of his private life, he rarely grants interviews, and makes very few public appearances.<ref name="Telegraph 2013"/>

Following his third Oscar win in 2013, there was much debate about Day-Lewis's standing among the greatest actors in film history.<ref name="Telegraph Day-Lewis"/><ref name="USA Today"/><ref name="The Guardian Oscars"/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Dargis|first1=Manohla|first2=A.O.|last2=Scott|title=The 25 greatest actors of the 21st century (so far)|work=The New York Times|date=25 November 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/movies/greatest-actors-actresses.html|access-date=7 January 2021|archive-date=1 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201234221/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/movies/greatest-actors-actresses.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Joe Queenan of ''[[The Guardian]]'' remarked, "Arguing whether Daniel Day-Lewis is a greater actor than [[Laurence Olivier]], or [[Richard Burton]], or [[Marlon Brando]], is like arguing whether [[Lionel Messi|Messi]] is more talented than [[Pelé]], whether [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] edges out [[Alexander the Great]] as a military genius."<ref name="The Guardian Oscars">{{cite news|title=Oscars 2013: do his three Oscars make Daniel Day-Lewis the greatest?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/feb/25/oscars-2013-daniel-day-lewis|work=The Guardian|last=Queenan|first=Joe|date=25 February 2013|access-date=27 October 2017|archive-date=3 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103051601/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/feb/25/oscars-2013-daniel-day-lewis|url-status=live}}</ref> When Day-Lewis himself was asked what it was like to be "the world's greatest actor", he replied, "It's daft isn't it? It changes all the time."<ref name="Allen 2013">{{cite news|title=Oscars 2013: Daniel Day-Lewis says it is 'daft' to call him best actor ever|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/9892520/Oscars-2013-Daniel-Day-Lewis-says-it-is-daft-to-call-him-best-actor-ever.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/9892520/Oscars-2013-Daniel-Day-Lewis-says-it-is-daft-to-call-him-best-actor-ever.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|last=Allen|first=Nick|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|date=25 February 2013|access-date=27 October 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Widely respected among his peers, in June 2017, Michael Simkins of ''The Guardian'' wrote, "In this glittering cesspit we call the acting profession, there are plenty of rival thesps who, through sheer luck or happenstance, seem to have the career we ourselves could have had if only the cards had fallen differently. But Day-Lewis is, by common consent, even in the most sourly disposed green rooms – a class apart. We shall not look upon his like again – at least for a bit. Performers of his mercurial intensity come along once in a generation."<ref name="Simkins"/>

==Personal life==
[[File:Daniel Day-Lewis and Rebecca Miller - 2008 Academy Awards (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Day-Lewis with wife [[Rebecca Miller]] at the [[80th Academy Awards|2008 Academy Awards]]]]
Protective of his privacy, Day-Lewis has described his life as a "lifelong study in evasion".<ref name="Privacy"/> He had a relationship with French actress [[Isabelle Adjani]] that lasted six years, eventually ending after a split and reconciliation.<ref name=Tele2013>{{cite news|last=Gritten|first=David|title=Daniel Day-Lewis: the greatest screen actor ever?|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/9886193/Daniel-Day-Lewis-the-greatest-screen-actor-ever.html|access-date=25 February 2013|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=22 February 2013|archive-date=29 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129150136/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/9886193/Daniel-Day-Lewis-the-greatest-screen-actor-ever.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Their son was born in 1995 in [[New York City]] a few months after the relationship ended.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Shane |last=Watson |title=The dumping game |date=15 August 2004 |url=http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/style/article466434.ece |work=The Times |location=UK |access-date=18 August 2022 |archive-date=15 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615152036/http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/style/article466434.ece |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1996, while working on the [[The Crucible (1996 film)|film version]] of the stage play ''[[The Crucible]]'', he visited the home of playwright [[Arthur Miller]], where he was introduced to the writer's daughter, [[Rebecca Miller]].<ref name=Tele2013/> They married later that year, on 13 November 1996.<ref>{{cite book |last=Achath |first=Sati |date=13 May 2011 |title=Hollywood Celebrities: Basic Things You've Always Wanted to Know |publisher=[[AuthorHouse]] |location=[[Bloomington, Indiana]] |page=18 |isbn=978-1-4634-1157-2}}</ref> The couple have two sons. They divide their time between their homes in [[Manhattan]] and [[Annamoe]], Ireland.<ref name="WashingtonPost"/><ref name="FreedomOfWicklow">{{cite news |last1=O'Brien |first1=Jason |title=Daniel Day Lewis given Freedom of Wicklow |url=https://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/daniel-day-lewis-given-freedom-of-wicklow-26532071.html |access-date=28 January 2018 |work=Irish Independent |date=28 April 2009 |archive-date=7 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107131415/https://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/daniel-day-lewis-given-freedom-of-wicklow-26532071.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Day-Lewis has held dual [[British nationality law|British]] and [[Irish nationality law|Irish]] citizenship since 1993.<ref>{{cite web |title=Daniel Day-Lewis |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/daniel_daylewis/ |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=12 October 2008 |archive-date=21 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021224613/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/daniel_daylewis/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He has maintained his Annamoe home since 1997.<ref name="FreedomOfWicklow" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Devlin |first1=Martina |title=Daniel, old chap, sure you're one of our own |url=https://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/martina-devlin/daniel-old-chap-sure-youre-one-of-our-own-26346828.html |access-date=28 January 2018 |work=Irish Independent |date=24 January 2008 |archive-date=29 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129140435/https://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/martina-devlin/daniel-old-chap-sure-youre-one-of-our-own-26346828.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Day-Lewis heads UK Oscars charge |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7202870.stm |access-date=28 January 2018 |agency=BBC News |date=22 January 2008 |archive-date=3 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103084350/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7202870.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> He stated: "I do have dual citizenship, but I think of England as my country. I miss [[London]] very much, but I couldn't live there because there came a time when I needed to be private and was forced to be public by the press. I couldn't deal with it."<ref name="Privacy">{{cite news |last1=Stanford |first1=Peter |title=The enigma of Day-Lewis |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/jan/13/awardsandprizes.danieldaylewis |access-date=28 January 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=13 January 2008 |archive-date=29 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829204805/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/jan/13/awardsandprizes.danieldaylewis |url-status=live }}</ref> He is a supporter of [[SE postcode area|south-east London]] football club [[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]].<ref>{{Cite news |last =Sullivan |first =Chris |title =How Daniel Day-Lewis' notoriously rigorous role preparation has yielded another Oscar contender |work =The Independent |date =1 February 2008 |url =https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/how-daniel-daylewis-notoriously-rigorous-role-preparation-has-yielded-another-oscar-contender-776563.html |access-date =4 July 2010 |location =London |archive-date =24 April 2011 |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110424095457/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/how-daniel-daylewis-notoriously-rigorous-role-preparation-has-yielded-another-oscar-contender-776563.html |url-status =live }}</ref> Day-Lewis is also an Ambassador for [[The Lir Academy]], a new drama school at [[Trinity College Dublin]], founded in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thelir.ie/about/people |title=People |website=The Lir Academy |access-date=6 October 2019 |archive-date=6 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191006221238/https://thelir.ie/about/people |url-status=live }}</ref> 

In 2005, he visited the [[Gaza Strip]] with [[Médecins Sans Frontières]], and criticised the [[Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip|occupation]] as "a state of [[Israeli apartheid|apartheid]]".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Day-Lewis |first=Daniel |date=24 March 2005|title=Inside scarred minds |url=https://www.miftah.org/display.cfm?DocId=6978&CategoryId=20 |access-date=19 May 2025|website=MIFTAH}}</ref> In 2010, Day-Lewis received an honorary doctorate in letters from the [[University of Bristol]], in part because of his attendance of the [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]] in his youth.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2010/7135.html |title=Bristol University &#124; News from the University &#124; Honorary degrees |website=Bristol.ac.uk |date=15 July 2010 |access-date=9 December 2011 |archive-date=12 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112130906/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2010/7135.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Day-Lewis has stated that he had "no real religious education", and that he "suppose[s]" he is "a die-hard agnostic".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/daniel_day_lewis.shtml |title=Daniel Day-Lewis, 2002 |website=[[Index Magazine]] |access-date=9 December 2011 |archive-date=11 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111211223823/http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/daniel_day_lewis.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2012, he donated to the [[University of Oxford]] papers belonging to his father, the poet Cecil Day-Lewis, including early drafts of the poet's work and letters from actor [[John Gielgud]] and literary figures such as [[W. H. Auden]], [[Robert Graves]], and [[Philip Larkin]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Daniel Day-Lewis: Gives poet dad's work to Oxford|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/30/daniel-day-lewis-gives-poet-dads-work-oxford/|access-date=28 January 2018|work=[[The Washington Times]]|date=30 October 2012|archive-date=4 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104073004/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/30/daniel-day-lewis-gives-poet-dads-work-oxford/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015, he became the honorary president of the [[Poetry Archive]]. A registered UK charity, the Poetry Archive is a free website containing a growing collection of recordings of English-language poets reading their work.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.poetryarchive.org/news|title=Sir Daniel Day-Lewis is to be the new Honorary President of the Poetry Archive |work= The Poetry Archive | access-date =21 October 2015 }}</ref> In 2017, Day-Lewis became a patron of the [[Wilfred Owen]] Association.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Stewart|first1=Stephen|title=Legendary 'ghost' war poet returns from World War One killing fields to meet today's veterans|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/legendary-ghost-war-poet-returns-10695439|access-date=28 January 2018|work=Daily Record|date=27 June 2017|archive-date=22 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122001220/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/legendary-ghost-war-poet-returns-10695439|url-status=live}}</ref> Day-Lewis's association with Wilfred Owen began with his father, Cecil Day-Lewis, who edited Owen's poetry in the 1960s and his mother, [[Jill Balcon]], who was a vice-president of the Wilfred Owen Association until her death in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|title=Daniel Day-Lewis reads Wilfred Owen works in War Poets Collection|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-37834436|access-date=28 January 2018|agency=BBC News|date=1 November 2016|archive-date=7 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207145813/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-37834436|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Stars bring war poetry to life|url=https://www.napier.ac.uk/about-us/news/war-poets-collection-relaunch|website=napier.ac.uk|publisher=Edinburgh Napier University|access-date=28 January 2018|date=2 November 2016|archive-date=22 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122125249/https://www.napier.ac.uk/about-us/news/war-poets-collection-relaunch|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2008, when he received the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] from [[Helen Mirren]], who was on presenting duty having won the previous year's Best Actress Oscar for portraying [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]] in ''[[The Queen (2006 film)|The Queen]]'', Day-Lewis knelt before her, and she tapped him on each shoulder with the Oscar statuette, to which he quipped, "That's the closest I'll come to ever getting a knighthood."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Travers |first1=Peter |title=Oscars 2008: The Live Blog |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/oscars-2008-the-live-blog-92201/ |access-date=4 April 2019 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=25 February 2008 |archive-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404005913/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/oscars-2008-the-live-blog-92201/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Day-Lewis was appointed a [[Knight Bachelor]] in the [[2014 Birthday Honours]] for services to drama.<ref name="knighthood"/><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=60895 |date=14 June 2014 |page=b2 |supp=y}}</ref> On 14 November 2014, he was knighted by [[Prince William, Duke of Cambridge]], in an investiture ceremony at [[Buckingham Palace]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=61320 |date=11 August 2015 |page=14934}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/honours-list/11230828/Daniel-Day-Lewis-knighted-by-the-Duke-of-Cambridge.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141114160854/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/honours-list/11230828/Daniel-Day-Lewis-knighted-by-the-Duke-of-Cambridge.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 November 2014 |title=Daniel Day-Lewis knighted by the Duke of Cambridge |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=14 November 2014|access-date=15 November 2014}}</ref>

==Acting credits==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders unsortable"
|+ {{sronly|Table featuring feature films with Daniel Day-Lewis}}
|-
!scope="col"|Year
!scope="col"|Title
!scope="col"|Role
! Director
|-
| 1971
!scope="row"| ''[[Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)|Sunday Bloody Sunday]]''
| Child Vandal (uncredited)
| [[John Schlesinger]] 
|-
| 1982
!scope="row"| ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]''
| Colin
| [[Richard Attenborough]] 
|-
| 1984
!scope="row"| ''{{sortname|The|Bounty|dab=1984 film}}''
| John Fryer
| [[Roger Donaldson]] 
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1985
!scope="row"| ''[[My Beautiful Laundrette]]''
| Johnny
| [[Stephen Frears]]
|-
!scope="row"| ''{{sortname|A|Room with a View|dab=1985 film}}''
| Cecil Vyse
| [[James Ivory]] 
|-
| 1986
!scope="row"| ''[[Nanou (film)|Nanou]]''
| Max
| Conny Templeman
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1988
!scope="row"| ''{{sortname|The|Unbearable Lightness of Being|dab=film}}''
| Tomas
| [[Philip Kaufman]] 
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Stars and Bars (1988 film)|Stars and Bars]]''
| Henderson Dores
| [[Pat O'Connor (director)|Pat O'Connor]] 
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1989
!scope="row"| ''[[My Left Foot]]''
| [[Christy Brown]]
| [[Jim Sheridan]] 
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[Eversmile, New Jersey]]''
| Fergus O'Connell
|Carlos Sorin
|-
| 1992
!scope="row"| ''{{sortname|The|Last of the Mohicans|dab=1992 film}}''
| [[Natty Bumppo|Nathaniel "Hawkeye" Poe]]
| [[Michael Mann]]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1993
!scope="row"| ''{{sortname|The|Age of Innocence|dab=1993 film}}''
| Newland Archer
| [[Martin Scorsese]]
|-
!scope="row"| ''[[In the Name of the Father]]''
| [[Gerry Conlon]]
| Jim Sheridan 
|-
| 1996
!scope="row"| ''{{sortname|The|Crucible|dab=1996 film}}''
| [[John Proctor (Salem witch trials)|John Proctor]]
| [[Nicholas Hytner]]
|-
| 1997
!scope="row"| ''{{sortname|The|Boxer|dab=1997 film}}''
| Danny Flynn
| Jim Sheridan
|-
| 2002
!scope="row"| ''[[Gangs of New York]]''
| [[William Poole|Bill "the Butcher" Cutting]]
| Martin Scorsese
|-
| 2003
! scope="row" | ''[[Abby Singer (film)|Abby Singer]]'' 
| Self
| Ryan R. Williams
|-
| 2005
!scope="row"| ''{{sortname|The|Ballad of Jack and Rose}}''
| Jack Slavin
| [[Rebecca Miller]]
|-
| 2007
!scope="row"| ''[[There Will Be Blood]]''
| Daniel Plainview
| [[Paul Thomas Anderson]] 
|-
| 2009
!scope="row"| ''[[Nine (2009 live-action film)|Nine]]''
| Guido Contini
| [[Rob Marshall]]
|-
| 2012
!scope="row"| ''[[Lincoln (film)|Lincoln]]''
| [[Abraham Lincoln]]
| [[Steven Spielberg]]
|-
| 2017
!scope="row"| ''[[Phantom Thread]]''
| Reynolds Woodcock
| [[Paul Thomas Anderson]]
|-
| 2025
!scope="row"| ''[[Anemone (film)|Anemone]]''
| {{TableTBA}}
| Ronan Day-Lewis
|-
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders unsortable"
|+ {{sronly|Table featuring television programs with Day-Lewis}}
|-
! scope="col"|Year
! scope="col"|Title
! scope="col"|Role
! scope="col" class="unsortable" |Notes
|-
| 1980 
! scope="row" | ''[[Shoestring (TV series)|Shoestring]]'' 
| DJ
| Episode: "The Farmer Had a Wife"
|-
| 1981
! scope="row" | ''Thank You, P. G. Wodehouse''
| Psmith
| Television film
|-
| 1981
! scope="row" | ''[[Artemis 81]]''
| Library Student
| Television film
|-
| 1982
! scope="row" | ''[[How Many Miles to Babylon? (novel)#Film, TV or theatrical adaptations|How Many Miles to Babylon?]]''
| Alec
| Television film
|-
| 1982
! scope="row" | ''Frost in May''
| Archie Hughes-Forret 
| Episode: "Beyond the Glass"
|-
| 1983
! scope="row" | ''[[Play of the Month]]''
| Gordon Whitehouse 
| Episode: "Dangerous Corner"
|-
| 1985
! scope="row" | ''[[My Brother Jonathan (TV series)|My Brother Jonathan]]''
| Jonathan Dakers 
| 5 episodes
|- 
| 1986
! scope="row" | ''[[Screen Two]]''
| [[Franz Kafka|Dr. Kafka]]
| Episode: "The Insurance Man"
|-
|}

===Theatre===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|+ {{sronly|Table featuring theatre roles with Daniel Day-Lewis}}
|-
!scope="col"| Year(s)
!scope="col"| Title
!scope="col"| Role
!scope="col" class="unsortable" | Venue
|-
| 1979
! scope="row" | ''[[The Recruiting Officer]]'' 
| Townsperson/Soldier 
| [[Theatre Royal, Bristol]]
|-
| 1979
! scope="row" | ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'' 
| [[Deiphobus]]
| Theatre Royal, Bristol
|-
| 1979
! scope="row" | ''Funny Peculiar''
| Stanley Baldry 
| Little Theatre, Bristol
|-
| 1979–80
! scope="row" | ''[[Old King Cole]]'' 
| The Amazing Faz 
| [[Bristol Old Vic|Old Vic Theatre]], Bristol
|-
| 1980
! scope="row" | ''[[Class Enemy (play)|Class Enemy]]'' 
| Iron 
| Old Vic Theatre, Bristol
|-
| 1980
! scope="row" | ''[[Edward II (play)|Edward II]]'' 
| Leicester 
| Old Vic Theatre, Bristol
|-
| 1980
! scope="row" | ''[[Oh, What a Lovely War!]]'' 
| Unknown
| Theatre Royal, Bristol
|-
| 1980
! scope="row" | ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' 
| Philostrate 
| Theatre Royal, Bristol
|-
| 1981
! scope="row" | ''[[Look Back in Anger]]'' 
| Jimmy Porter 
| Little Theatre, Bristol
|-
| 1981
! scope="row" | ''[[Dracula]]'' 
| [[Count Dracula]] 
| Little Theatre, Bristol
|-
| 1982–83
! scope="row" | ''[[Another Country (play)|Another Country]]''
| Guy Bennett 
| [[Sondheim Theatre|Queen's Theatre]], Shaftesbury Avenue
|-
| 1983–84
! scope="row" | ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' <br/> ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' 
| Flute <br/> Romeo 
| [[Royal Shakespeare Company]]
|-
|1984
! scope="row" | ''Dracula'' 
| Count Dracula 
| [[Half Moon Theatre]], London
|-
| 1986
! scope="row" | ''[[Futurists (play)|Futurists]]'' 
| Volodya Mayakovsky 
| [[Royal National Theatre]], London
|-
| 1989
! scope="row" | ''[[Hamlet]]'' 
| [[Prince Hamlet|Hamlet]]
| Royal National Theatre, London
|-
|}

===Documentaries===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders unsortable"
|+ {{sronly|Table featuring television programs with Day-Lewis}}
|-
! scope="col"|Year
! scope="col"|Title
! scope="col"|Role
! scope="col" class="unsortable" |Notes
|-
| 2002
! scope="row" | ''Forever Ealing'' 
| Narrator
|Voice
|-
| 2010
! scope="row" | ''A Man's Story'' 
| Self
|Interviewee
|-
| 2012
! scope="row" | ''Access to the Danger Zone'' 
| Narrator
|Voice
|-
| 2014
! scope="row" | ''And the Oscar Goes To...'' 
| Self
|
|-
| 2017
! scope="row" | ''[[Spielberg (film)|Spielberg]]'' 
| Self
|Interviewee
|-
| 2021
! scope="row" | ''Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius'' 
| Self
|Subject
|-
|}

===Music===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|+ {{sronly|Table featuring music with Daniel Day-Lewis}}
|-
!scope="col"| Year
!scope="col"| Title
!scope="col"| Role
|-
| 2005
! scope="row" | ''[[The Ballad of Jack and Rose]]''
| Original score producer
|-
| 2009
! scope="row" | ''[[Nine (2009 live-action film)|Nine]]'' 
| Performer on "Guido's Song", "I Can't Make This Movie"
|}

==Awards and nominations==
{{Main|List of awards and nominations received by Daniel Day-Lewis}}
He received [[List of awards and nominations received by Daniel Day-Lewis|numerous accolades]] throughout his career which spanned over four decades, including three [[Academy Awards]] for [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]], making him the only actor to have [[List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories|three wins in that category]], the third male actor to win three competitive Academy Awards for acting, and the sixth performer overall to do so.<ref>{{cite news|title=Daniel Day-Lewis makes Oscar history with third award|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-21570142|access-date=13 March 2013|work=BBC News|date=25 February 2013|archive-date=19 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319145003/http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-21570142|url-status=live}}</ref>{{efn|Day-Lewis was only after [[Katharine Hepburn]] (who has four in total), [[Walter Brennan]], [[Ingrid Bergman]], [[Jack Nicholson]], and [[Meryl Streep]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/actors-with-most-oscars-2018-2#katharine-hepburn-4-wins-12-nominations-44|title=The 44 actors who have won multiple Oscars, ranked by who has won the most|last=Clark|first=Travis|date=26 April 2021|access-date=28 April 2021|website=[[Business Insider]]|archive-date=17 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217133645/https://www.businessinsider.com/actors-with-most-oscars-2018-2/#katharine-hepburn-4-wins-12-nominations-44|url-status=live}}</ref>}} Additionally, he has received four [[British Academy Film Awards]], three [[Screen Actors Guild Awards]] and two [[Golden Globe Awards]]. In 2014, Day-Lewis received a [[Knight Bachelor|knighthood]] for services to drama.<ref name="knighthood"/>

==See also==
* [[List of people on the postage stamps of Ireland]]
* [[List of Academy Award records]]
*[[List of British Academy Award nominees and winners]]
*[[List of Irish Academy Award winners and nominees]]
*[[List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees#Youngest winners 2|List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees – Youngest winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role]]
*[[List of actors with Academy Award nominations]] 
*[[List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories]] 
*[[List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories]]
*[[List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees]]
*[[List of Jewish Academy Award winners and nominees]]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|358}}
* {{Screenonline name|495752}}

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