Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis is an award-winning British actor best known for his roles as Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans and as Bill the Butcher in the Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York. He is a method actor, known for his complete immersion into his roles through research and staying in character For the duration of his films.

In 2008 the Best Actor Oscar was given to him for his role in There Will Be Blood.

Notable Films

1988: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1989: My Left Foot
1992: The last of the Mohicans
1993: The Age of Innocence
1993: In the Name of the Father
1996: The Crucible
2002: Gangs of New York
2007: There Will Be Blood

Quotes

"I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe I'm somebody else."
"Life comes first. What I see in the characters, I first try to see in life."
"Laurence Olivier might have been a much better actor on film if he hadn't had that flippant attitude. [He] was a remarkable actor, but he was entirely missing the point consistently. He felt that film was an inferior form."
"Why would I want to play middle-aged middle-class Englishmen?"