Date of birth: April 29, 1957 (Age: 69 as of September 2026)
Height: 6 ‘ ¼” (186 cm)
Weight: 174 pounds (79 kg)
Shoe size: 10,5 (US) / 44 (EU)
Hair color: Brown/Grey
Eye color: Green
Daniel Day-Lewis is one of those actors who will not waste his time on trifles. He not often indulges us with his appearance on the screen, but each of his roles is one hundred percent hit in the image.
The role of Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln brought the actor his third Oscar.
There are legends about how Day-Lewis lives his images.
In 1989, he starred in the first film written and directed by Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot. The film tells about the life of an Irishman Christy Brown, suffering from cerebral palsy. Christy Brown, who had cerebral palsy, learned to write and paint using the toes of his left foot and became an author and artist. All this Day-Lewis had to live on the screen.
Throughout the entire film-making process, he flatly refused to leave the wheelchair. Stories about the production often emphasize Day-Lewis remaining in character and using a wheelchair, but sensational claims about injuries or other people’s health should not be repeated without firm documentation.
Well well, nothing was in vain: Daniel has been awarded many prestigious awards, including the Oscar. But that is not all. In order to play in the National Theatre stage conversation with between the ghost and Hamlet as plausible as possible, Day-Lewis imagined communicating with his own dead father.
For the role of Hawkeye in the Michael Mann’s film Last of the Mohicans, the actor was engaged in the gym for a long time, sitting on a special diet and even built a canoe and learned to hunt.
In preparation for the role of Bill the Butcher in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York he spent a lot of time in the butcher shop.
Generally this person is full of surprises. Although Day-Lewis announced his retirement in 2017, he returned to the screen in the 2025 film Anemone, directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis.
Updated details
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis was born on April 29, 1957, in London. He is the first man to win three Academy Awards for Best Actor, for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood and Lincoln. He co-wrote and starred in Anemone after an eight-year screen absence; the role-specific weight and training accounts above are historical and should not be copied without professional supervision.
