Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis ( born April 29, 1957 in London ) is a British actor who has, in addition to the British and Irish citizenship. He is the first actor to three times recorded an Oscar as best actor for itself, and thus is an icon of contemporary cinema.
Life
Daniel Day- Lewis was born as the second child of British actress Jill Balcon and the Irish- British author Cecil Day-Lewis. His maternal grandfather, Michael Balcon was as head of Ealing Studios, a major figure in the British film industry, while his older sister Lydia Tamasin is a documentary filmmaker.
Day-Lewis studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic School. He had in 1971 in the film Sunday, Bloody Sunday His first role. After this first experience in the film business, Daniel Day-Lewis dedicated again reinforced the theater. Only in the year 1982, he was to see her again in a theatrical production. He had a small role in the film adaptation of the life of Mahatma Gandhi under the title Gandhi with Ben Kingsley in the title role. In 1985 it was again aware of him when he My Beautiful Laundrette played the role of a gay punks in the film adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's play. In the same year he took over the role of naval officer John Fryer alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in The Bounty.
In the coming years, he worked in several other major films ( including rooms with a view and The Unbearable Lightness of Being on the side of Juliette Binoche ), until he found great attention worldwide with his role in My Left Foot (1989). His portrayal of a spastic paralyzed writer and painter who writes with his left foot and was painted with many awards - including an Oscar for best actor.
From then on, Daniel Day- Lewis was experiencing increasingly common in major motion pictures. So The Last of the Mohicans and Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence could be him, for example, in the movies to see. His role in the film In the Name of the Father (1993 ) earned him several awards, including a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. In the late 1990s, the actor withdrew for five years in the film business, to devote himself to Florence in the shoemaking.
In 2002, Day-Lewis turned again under the direction of Martin Scorsese alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, the film co-produced and explicitly Day-Lewis wanted the role, Gangs of New York, giving him back some nominations ( Golden Globe, Academy Awards ) and various awards ( among others in the category " Best Villain " earned at the MTV Movie Awards ).
The big blockbuster productions denied the actor. He refused, for example, the offer to take over the role of Aragorn in Peter Jackson's film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Such a thoroughly fictional role was incompatible with his method acting.
Day-Lewis is married since 1996 with Rebecca Miller, the daughter of Arthur Miller and photographer Inge Morath, with whom he recorded in Ireland ( Annamoe, County Wicklow ) lives in the country. Together with her, he has two children. From a previous relationship with actress Isabelle Adjani he has a son.
In 2008, he won his second Oscar for Best Actor for his role in There Will Be Blood.
Contrary to his previous roles played Daniel Day- Lewis in 2010 in the musical film Nine, which brought him a Golden Globe nomination in the category Best Actor - Comedy or Musical earned.
On February 24, 2013 he received his third Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Male Lead for his portrayal of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Lincoln.