Daniel Day-Lewis

Born: 29 April 1957, Kensington, London

  • Portraits (4)

  • My Beautiful Laundrette (1987) (6)

  • My Left Foot (1989) (7)

  • The Age of Innocence (1993) (11)

  • In the Name of the Father (1993) (5)

  • The Boxer (1997) (1)

  • Gangs of New York (2002) (6)

  • The Ballad of Jack & Rose (2004) (1)

Highlighted works

There Will Be Blood
Drama

This operatic portrait of a diabolical oil baron is a formal tour de force and a compelling portrait of all-American 20th century sociopathy.

A Room with a View
Romance / Drama

The manners and manias of polite Edwardian society are studiously dissected in this typical Merchant-Ivory period drama, a handsomely mounted adaptation of E.M. Forster’s 1908 novel.

Gandhi

The icon of India’s independence movement was described in newsreels as “the little man”, but the ambition and scale of Richard Attenborough’s biopic are nothing short of colossal.

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Peter Finch gives a quietly devastating performance as the gay Jewish doctor bearing up through romantic crisis in John Schlesinger’s piercing and brilliantly observed suburban drama.

Filmography

1971
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1991
1992
1993
1996
1997
1998
2002
2004
2007
2009
  • Nine Guido Contini
2010
2012