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Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English/Irish two-time [[Academy Award]]-winner and legendarily intense method actor. He has starred in such acclaimed films as ''My Left Foot'', ''Age Of Innocence'', ''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]'', ''[[In the Name of the Father]]'', ''[[Gangs of New York]]'' and ''[[There Will Be Blood]]''. Played [[Abraham Lincoln]] in [[Steven Spielberg]]'s 2012 film Lincoln.

Is married to [[Arthur Miller]]'s daughter, who he met while filming ''[[The Crucible]]''. 

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* [[Award Snub]]: Averted. He's the ''only'' actor to have won the Best Actor [[Oscar]] three times (in 1989, 2007, and 2012) as of 2020.
* [[Badass Moustache]]: Two of the most iconic as Bill the Butcher and Daniel Plainview.
* [[Call to Agriculture]]/[[Cincinnatus]]: After learning to make his own clothes in preparation for one film, he left film for six years to become a cobbler in Venice. 
* [[Death Glare]]: Check out the absolute crackers he gives to his nurse/  {{spoiler|future wife}} when she tries to take his hidden bottle of whiskey off him in ''[[My Left Foot]]'', to Eli Sunday during his "confirmation" in ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'', and at several points during ''[[Gangs of New York]]''.
* [[Doing It for the Art]]: As has been mentioned, Day-Lewis is one of the most well known method actors around, to the point where he's actually achieved a memetic status as the go to for insane dedication to acting, as during the filming process, he never gets out of character. While playing Bill the Butcher in ''[[Gangs of New York]]'', he famously refused to seek medical treatment for pneumonia until it became almost life threatening, as it was not in keeping with available medical treatment in the 1860's. He also [[Throw It In|ad libbed]] tapping on his glass eye with a knife to intimidate William Tweed. When playing a villain, he will accost other actors in character on and off the set, and get into fights in bars in preparation for a role. When playing any character, he will spend six months mastering an accent, learning various crafts, and adopting disabilities.
* [[Dyeing for Your Art]]: Trained as a boxer for three years and broke a knuckle for his role in ''The Boxer''
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: Self-enforced.
* [[Fake American]]: Several roles but see especially [[Gangs of New York|Bill the Butcher]] and [[There Will Be Blood|Daniel Plainview]].
* [[Large Ham]]: See [[Chewing the Scenery]] for more details.
* [[Method Acting]]
* [[Playing Against Type]]: He doesn't exactly have a type, per se, but he first drew attention in America for playing two incredibly different roles in movies that happened to premiere in the US on the same day: as the repressed, snobbish, upper-class, Edwardian-era Englishman Cecil in ''[[Film/A Room With A View|A Room With A View]]''; and Johnny, the gay ex-skinhead thug in Thatcher's London engaged in a forbidden romance with a Pakistani boy, in ''[[My Beautiful Laundrette]]''. '''Many''' critics were impressed that he did both roles so convincingly.
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: He had a very small part in ''Gandhi'' and was an extra in ''Sunday Bloody Sunday''.
* [[Serious Business]]: Notoriously takes acting very seriously. Luckily he's very good at it.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: He actively campaigned for the part of Vincent Vega in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', but was turned down by [[Quentin Tarantino]].
** He was also going to be cast as Aragorn in the ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Lord of the Rings]]'' films when Townshend was kicked off the project before Jackson ended up going with [[Viggo Mortensen]]. Had Mortensen actually drowned in ''The Two Towers'' film, he might've been Mortensen's replacement.

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