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Daniel Day-Lewis began his acting career in 1971 with an uncredited role as a vandal in the film Sunday Bloody Sunday. He was fourteen years old when he performed this first film role during a gray afternoon in Greenwich.
Daniel Day-Lewis stopped performing on stage after collapsing during a November 1989 production of Hamlet at the National Theatre in London. The incident officially attributed itself to exhaustion, though he claimed he saw his own father's ghost metaphorically.
Daniel Day-Lewis won three Academy Awards for Best Actor for My Left Foot in 1989, There Will Be Blood in 2007, and Lincoln in 2012. No other actor has ever received three wins in that category.
Daniel Day-Lewis divides time between homes in Manhattan and Annamoe, Ireland since marrying Rebecca Miller on the 13th of November 1996. He holds dual citizenship from 1993 reflecting his connection to both Britain and Ireland.
During the filming of My Left Foot in 1989, Daniel Day-Lewis remained paralyzed in a wheelchair for weeks while crew members spoon-fed him meals. Rumors circulated that he broke two ribs assuming a hunched-over position for so many weeks, which he denied years later at the 2013 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.