Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis attended the same theatre school, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with fellow British thespian Miranda Richardson. Fiennes starred as well in the 2003 limited-release film Luther, playing Martin Luther himself. Day-Lewis has also a son from a former relationship with French actress Isabelle Adjani. Fiennes also stars in the 1998 film Elizabeth and the 2003 film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas as the voice of Proteus. They live in Ireland and have two sons. His biggest film, to date, was Shakespeare in Love, which won for Best Picture at the Academy Awards for 1998. Daniel Day-Lewis is married to actress and director Rebecca Miller, daughter of Arthur Miller (author of The Crucible). His first feature film was 1996's Stealing Beauty, co-starring Liv Tyler.

Other film roles have included The Age of Innocence co-starring Michelle Pfeiffer, In the Name of the Father, The Crucible with Winona Ryder, Last of the Mohicans, and Gangs of New York with Leonardo DiCaprio. Fiennes made his television debut as Willy in The Vacillations of Poppy Carew. He returned to the stage to work again with Richard Eyre, as Hamlet at the National Theater, but was forced to leave the production close to the end of its run suffering from exhaustion, and has not appeared on stage since. Fiennes, then, was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for two seasons. His performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot (1989) won him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for best actor. His first professional stage appearance was in the West End in "The Woman in Black," followed by "A Month in the Country," opposite Helen Mirren. In 1987 he assumed leading man status in Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being co-starring Juliette Binoche. After leaving art school, Fiennes worked with the Young Vic Youth Theatre, and then went on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

The latter two films opened in New York City on the same day. He was raised in West Cork, Ireland, along with his six brothers and sisters, including his twin, Jacob, and older brother Ralph Fiennes. This role was followed by a completely different character in A Room with a View in 1986, where he played a snobbish, clumsy upper-class-dandy. Fiennes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. In 1984 he had a supporting role in The Bounty, but came to public notice as half of a gay biracial couple in My Beautiful Laundrette. Joseph Alberic Fiennes (born May 27, 1970) is an English born actor. He then went back to the stage in both Bristol and London, and did not return to movies until appearing in a bit part in Gandhi in 1982.

He was trained on the stage, in Bristol, but he made his film debut in Sunday Bloody Sunday in 1971. Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the gifted actors of his generation, known for his total devotion to the role he plays. His mother is Jill Balcon, actress daughter of Sir Michael Balcon, head of Ealing Studios. Although born in London he holds an Irish passport as his father was the Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of England.

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born April 29, 1957) is a British actor. 1990 - Won - Best Actor in a Leading Role - My Left Foot. 1994 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role - In the Name of the Father. 2002 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role - Gangs of New York.