Daniel Day-Lewis Trivia: 17 Facts About Actor Daniel Day Lewis and His Movies

1. Daniel Day-Lewis was born in 1957, in Greenwich, London.

2. His full name is Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis.

3. He stands at 6' 1½" (1.87 m).

4. He was nominated for Best Actor Oscar 4 times. He won twice.

5. The movies he was nominated for are: My Left Foot (1989), In the Name of the Father (1993), Gangs of New York (2002) and There Will Be Blood (2007). He won with My Left Foot and There Will Be Blood.

6. He has won 3 BAFTAs and one Golden Globe. He has many other nominations and wins.

7. He is married to actress/director/writer Rebecca Miller, the daughter of the famous playwright Arthur Miller.

8. Daniel Day-Lewis and Rebecca Miller have two children together.

9. He has a son from ex-girlfriend, actress Isabelle Adjani.

10. His female co-stars include Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin (The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Madeleine Stowe (The Last of the Mohicans), Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder (The Age of Innocence), Winona Ryder, Joan Allen (The Crucible), Emily Watson (The Boxer), Cameron Diaz (Gangs of New York), Kate Hudson, Sophia Loren, Stacy Ferguson -Fergie of Black Eyed Peas, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard and Judi Dench (Nine).

11. The roles he turned down include Tom Hanks’ role in Philadelphia and Viggo Mortensen’s role in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

12. His 2005 movie, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, was directed and written by his wife Rebecca Miller.

13. He is known for getting into an extreme preparation for his roles. His preparation activities have included working as a butcher for Gangs of New York and staying in accent during the filming breaks, as well as living isolated from his wife and children in order to portray a man living in a commune for the film The Ballad of Jack and Rose. For his role in The Last of the Mohicans, he learned building a canoe, as well as learning how to skin and track animals and using a 12-pound flintlock gun perfectly.

14. He doesn’t mind staying away from making films for years.

15. He really admires the performances of Robert De Niro and Heath Ledger.

16. He likes working with director Martin Scorsese.

17. His movie roles include ex-IRA members, a man born with cerebral palsy who learned to write and paint with his left foot, a famous film director, a man raised by Mohicans after his parents died, a traveling dentist, a father having a problematic and unconventional relationship with her daughter and more.