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Edited on Mon Jul-31-06 03:34 PM by Radio_Lady
Not sure if today's hair extensions were available in the early 1990s. I was working for Clairol, the haircoloring company, during those years. His scenes were so active, I wondered how a wig or other artificial hair would have stayed in place.
Daniel Day-Lewis has such a radiant smile. I wanted to see his last movie -- directed by his wife, Rebecca Miller, daughter of Arthur Miller, but not sure this movie even opened here. It is called "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" (2005). It's the only listed movie he's done since "Gangs of New York."
Fascinating information at the Internet Movie Database:
IMDb mini-biography
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Spouse
Rebecca Miller (13 November 1996 - present) 2 children
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Trivia
Son, with Miller, born 14 June 1998.
Ranked #25 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
Assumed Irish citizenship. Moved to County Wicklow, Ireland in 1993.
Relationship with French Actress Isabelle Adjani (1989-1994). Father of her son Gabriel-Kane, born 9 April 1995.
Brother of Tamasin Day-Lewis.
Chosen by People magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" in the world. <1990>
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars" in film history (#11). <1995>
Several times offered and turned down the role of Aragorn (Strider) in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
Son-in-law of playwright Arthur Miller.
According to Harvey Weinstein, Day-Lewis was taking time off to work as a cobbler in Florence, Italy when Weinstein, director Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio lured him into coming back to New York "on false pretenses" so they could persuade him to accept lead role in Gangs of New York (2002).
Describes himself as "a lifelong study of evasion."
According to Gangs of New York (2002) co-star John C. Reilly, Day-Lewis got sick during shooting in Italy, refusing to trade his character's threadbare coat for a warmer coat because the warmer coat did not exist in the 19th century; doctors finally forced him to take antibiotics.
Announced that he will star in "Rose and the Snake," co-written and to be directed by his wife, Rebecca Miller. (25 February 2003)
Has three sons: Gabriel-Kane Adjani (b. 9 April 1995), Ronan Cal Day-Lewis (b. 14 June 1998), and Cashel Blake Day-Lewis (b. May 2002).
Chosen by People magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful" people in the world <2003>.
Is a skilled woodworker in addition to being able to make his living as a cobbler.
He listened to Eminem to get into an angry, self-righteous frame of mind as Bill the Butcher while shooting Gangs of New York (2002).
Not only does he and Michelle Pfeiffer share a birthday, but they were married on the same day, albeit three years apart.
He was Jonathan Demme's first choice for the part of Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia (1993). He turned the part down to work on In the Name of the Father (1993) and Tom Hanks was cast in "Philadelphia" instead. Day-Lewis earned an Oscar nomination for best actor in "In the Name of the Father", but Hanks won the best actor Oscar for "Philadelphia", the part Day-Lewis turned down.
Always quiet and introverted, he said that he was not popular in school and was mocked as an outsider while growing up in England, partially because he was of half-Jewish/half-Irish stock. The upside was that, instead of socializing, he developed a rich fantasy life that later helped him to delve so deeply into his characters.
He was the first of three consecutive British actors to win the Oscar for Best Actor in a leading role, Jeremy Irons being next and Anthony Hopkins the third. Each of them coincidentally won at their first nomination in the Academy Awards.
In The Crucible (1996) Joan Allen plays his wife. In The Boxer (1997) Emily Watson plays his wife. Both have played Reba McLain Allen played the part in Manhunter (1986), Watson played the part in the remake, Red Dragon (2002).
Was considered for the role of Jesus Christ in The Passion of the Christ (2004), but director Mel Gibson thought he looked too "European" and the part went to James Caviezel.
He lived apart from his wife Rebecca Miller while she was directing him in The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005). This is in keeping with his habit of being isolated while in character and shooting a film, which is in part the reason he is hesitant to take more film work.
Frequently called the "English Robert De Niro" early in his career, Day-Lewis recently referred to De Niro as his "champion".
Shares his birthday with Uma Thurman and comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Considered doing an adaptation of "Rose and the Snake" in the early 1990s, but the project fell through. After meeting and marrying Rebecca Miller, she convinced him to take the lead part and directed him in the adaptation The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005).
After Michael Madsen was found to be unavailable for the part, Day-Lewis tried to get the role of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction (1994), one of the few times he actively pursued a part. However, by that point in the casting, Quentin Tarantino had John Travolta in mind for the part.
Hated being at Sevenoaks School so much that he ran away.
While filming Gangs of New York (2002) he rarely got out of character and would talk with a New York accent the whole day and would be sharpening his knives at lunch.
His performance as Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989) is ranked #11 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
His performance as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York (2002) is ranked #53 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
Grandson of Michael Balcon.
His performance as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in "Gangs of New York" (2002) is ranked #83 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
His role in the National Theatre Production of "Hamlet" ended after he walked out mid-performance due to nervous exhaustion.
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