Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is a retired English actor with dual British and Irish citizenship. He has won three Academy Awards and four BAFTA Awards for Best Actor. He recently announced his retirement from acting following the completion of the film Phantom Thread, for which he was also nominated for the Oscar.
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Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is a retired English actor with dual British and Irish citizenship. He is one of the most respected actors of his generation. He has won three Academy Awards and four BAFTA Awards for Best Actor. In June 2014, he received a knighthood for services to drama. He was born in Kensington, London, the second child of poet Cecil Day- Lewis and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather, Sir Michael Balcon, became the head of Ealing Studios, helping develop the new British film industry. His mother was Jewish; her Jewish ancestors were immigrants to England in the late 19th century, from Latvia and Poland. In 1968, his parents, finding his behaviour to be too wild, sent him as a boarder to Sevenoaks School in Kent. At this school, he was bullied for being both Jewish and having a tough South London accent. Later in life, he has been known to speak himself as a disorderly character in his most prominent acting and fishing interests, and has a love of woodworking and fishing. He currently lives in New York with his wife and two children, who he met when he was a teenager. He also has a son, a daughter, and a son-in-law with whom he has three children. He recently announced his retirement from acting following the completion of the film Phantom Thread, for which he was also nominated for the Oscar. He last appeared on the stage in 1989 in Hamlet at the National Theatre in London.
He retired from acting for three years, taking up a new profession as an apprentice shoe-maker in Italy. He returned to acting in 2000 reuniting with Scorsese in the historical crime film Gangs of New York, winning a BAFTA and receiving an Oscar nomination. He won Oscars and BAFTAs again for Paul Thomas Anderson’s period drama There Will Be Blood and Steven Spielberg’s biographical drama Lincoln. After a decade, he reunited with Anderson for Phantom Thread, for which He was also nominations for Oscar and BAFTA. He then announced his retirements from acting in 2009 after finishing the film The Age of Innocence. In 2010, he starred in the biopic Lincoln with Steven Spielberg, which he also co-wrote and co-starred in. In 2012, he appeared in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, starring alongside Tom Hanks and Amy Adams. In 2013, he played the lead role in The Great Gatsby, in which he received his second Oscar nomination for best actor. In 2014 he won the BAFTA Award for best supporting actor for the film adaptation of The Godfather: Part II. In 2015, he won a Golden Globe Award for his performance in The Big C. In 2016 he won his third Oscar for best lead actor in a comedy or drama, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. In 2017 he was nominated for a second Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor in the film A Man Walks into a nightclub.
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