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Daniel Day-Lewis

English actor renowned for his immersive performances and multiple Oscar wins.

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Who is Daniel Day-Lewis?

Daniel Day-Lewis is best known for Intense method acting and portraying eccentric characters in auteur films, winning three Academy Awards for Best Actor. On Dead or Alive, Daniel Day-Lewis is listed in the Oscar Best Actors category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Daniel Day-Lewis is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Intense method acting and portraying eccentric characters in auteur films, winning three Academy Awards for Best Actor.
Listed under: Oscar Best Actors

About Daniel Day-Lewis

In 2014, Day-Lewis received a knighthood for services to drama. Protective of his private life, he rarely grants interviews and makes very few public appearances. Day-Lewis shifted between theatre and film for most of the early 1980s, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company and playing Romeo Montague in Romeo and Juliet and Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Playing the title role in Hamlet at the National Theatre in London in 1989, he left the stage midway through a performance after breaking down during a scene where the ghost of Hamlet's father appears before him—this was his last appearance on the stage. After supporting film roles in Gandhi (1982) and The Bounty (1984), he earned acclaim for his breakthrough performances in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), A Room with a View (1985), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). He earned three Academy Awards for Best Actor for his roles as Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), the oil tycoon Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007), and Abraham Lincoln in 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), The Age of Innocence (1993), The Crucible (1996), and The Boxer (1997).

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Daniel Day-Lewis is known for Intense method acting and portraying eccentric characters in auteur films, winning three Academy Awards for Best Actor.

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