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Daniel Day-Lewis Irish actor.

Although born in London, England he holds an Irish passport as his father was the County Laois born Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of England. His mother is Jill Balcon, an English Jewish actress, daughter of Sir Michael Balcon, head of Ealing Studios.

he trained for six months with former boxing world champion Barry McGuigan. Outside of the movie industry he is a talented cobbler and carpenter. He was trained on the stage, in Bristol, but he made his film debut in in 1971. He then went back to the stage in both Bristol and London, and did not return to movies until appearing in a bit part in in 1986, where he played a snobbish, clumsy upper-class twit. The latter two films opened in New York City on the same day. In 1987 he assumed leading man status in Philip Kaufman's co-starring Juliette Binoche which was nominated for two Oscars and won four other awards and five nominations.

His performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's (1989) won him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for best actor. He returned to the stage to work again with Richard Eyre, as Hamlet at the National Theater, but was forced to leave the production close to the end of its run suffering from exhaustion, and has not appeared on stage since.

Other film roles have included .

Daniel Day-Lewis is married to actress and director Rebecca Miller, daughter of Inge Morath and Arthur Miller (author of ). They live in Ireland and have two sons. Day-Lewis also has a son from a former relationship with French actress Isabelle Adjani.

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Daniel Day-Lewis attended the same theatre school, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with fellow English thespian Miranda Richardson.

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Known for being very dedicated to researching characters and how they would live and act. For The Last of the Mohicans, he not only underwent rigorous weight training but actually lived in the forest where his character supposedly lived, camped out, hunting and fishing. For his extremes in effort, he has been nicknamed "The British De Niro".