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Daniel Day Lewis was born in London in 1957, the son of actress Jill Balcon and the Irish Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis. He made his film debut at the age of 14 in Sunday Bloody Sunday in an uncredited role. After leaving school he was accepted into the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He landed a small role in the epic Gandhi Richard Attenbourgh 1982, after which followed a number of roles in film and on stage. He began to attract public attention in 1986 with the release of two films - My Beautiful Laundrette and A Room with a View. In 1987, he assumed the leading role in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness be, during the eighth month shoot he learned Czech and refused to break character on or off the entire schedule of shooting. He received an Oscar in 1989 for her portrayal of writer Christy Brown in "My Left Foot Sheridan Jim. He played in the last of the Mohicans in 1992, and Martin Scorsese, The Age of Innocence in 1993. He worked again with Jim Sheridan on In the name of the Father and the boxer, after which he went into semi-retirement travel to Florence to learn the craft of shoemaking. After a five year absence Day Lewis acting is returned in Scorsese's Gangs of New York. In 2007, he appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!, Title There Will Be Blood because it has won his second Oscar. Day Lewis currently holds dual British and Irish.

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