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Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English actor with dual British and Irish citizenship. Day-Lewis studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has won three Academy Awards for Best Actor for portraying Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood , Christy Brown in My Left Foot and Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln. He is one of a very few actors who has received three Oscar Awards and the only actor who has ever received three Academy Awards for Best Actor in the history. His father was Cecil Day Lewis and his grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon.

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Birth Name: Daniel Michael Blake Day

Alternative Names: Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis • Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis • Daniel Day Lewis

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Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence—the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film—you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night’s washing-up.