Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Daniel Day Lewis....

Happy 51st Birthday
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a legendary two-time Academy Award-, three-time BAFTA-, two-time Screen Actors Guild- and Golden Globe award-winning British-born actor with dual British and Irish citizenship. Day-Lewis studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for portraying Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood and Christy Brown for My Left Foot.

He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four movies in the last ten years. He is a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. Often, he will remain completely in character for the duration of the shooting schedule of his films.



My Beautiful Launderette and Room With A View


Gangs Of New York


There Will Be Blood


In The Name of The Father


The Insurance Man


Unbearable Lightness of Being


My Left Foot


The Ballad of Jack and Rose


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