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Daniel Day-Lewis has won three Academy Awards for Best Actor, a record unmatched by any other actor. He won for My Left Foot (1989), There Will Be Blood (2007), and Lincoln (2012), becoming the first performer ever to win the award three times.
During a performance of Hamlet at the National Theatre in London in 1989, Day-Lewis collapsed during the scene where the ghost of Hamlet's father appears and began sobbing uncontrollably, refusing to continue. He later said he had seen the ghost of his own father, describing it as more a metaphor than a hallucination. He has not appeared on stage since.
Daniel Day-Lewis's father was the poet Cecil Day-Lewis, who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968. His mother was actress Jill Balcon, daughter of Sir Michael Balcon, the head of Ealing Studios. Day-Lewis was born on the 29th of April 1957 in Kensington, London.
Daniel Day-Lewis was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to drama. He was knighted by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, at Buckingham Palace on the 14th of November 2014.
After completing The Boxer in 1997, Day-Lewis moved to Florence, Italy, where he apprenticed as a shoe-maker with craftsman Stefano Bemer. He remained away from acting for three years before returning for Gangs of New York in 2002.
Day-Lewis returned to acting in 2025 for Anemone, which he co-wrote and starred in alongside Sean Bean and Samantha Morton. The film was directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis and had its world premiere at the 2025 New York Film Festival.