MY LEFT FOOT (Drama - R)

Daniel Day-Lewis won his 1st Oscar for his performance as the handicapped Irish writer-artist who was afflicted with cerebral palsy from birth.

ABOUT DANIEL DAY-LEWIS (1957 - )

Daniel Day Lewis is a Londoner, who comes from a family that includes a film producer, a doc filmmaker and a poet laureate.  Lewis began his acting career on the London stage and not until the 80's did he turn to the family business of cinema.

He first came to notice in the 1984 drama, THE BOUNTY as a member of the mutinous crew.  In MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE, [1985], he played the lover of a guy involved in nefarious family businesses. 

The same year, he played the bloodless, overly-starched fiance of the protagonist [Helena Bonham Carter] in A ROOM WITH A VIEW, the story of a passionate young woman's route to finding her true self and happines,s in Victorian England.

In 1989, Daniel Day Lewis won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a sensitive, disabled man who learned to paint and type with his LEFT FOOT.  In the 1992 drama based on the James Fennimore Cooper novel, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, he plays a man raised by a Mohican tribe caught in complications during the French and Indian War. 

Daniel Day Lewis plays demented New York gangster, Bill "The Butcher" Cutting, the villain of the 2002 crime drama, THE GANGS OF NEW YORK.

In THERE WILL BE BLOOD [2007], he plays Daniel Plainview, a man obsessed by oil fever, who attempts to hide his true motives, as he bleeds an early 20th century California town dry.

Some of Daniel Day Lewis' other credits include:

GANDHI (1982)
THE BOUNTY (1984)
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1985)
A ROOM WITH A VIEW (1985)
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (1988)
STARS AND BARS
EVERSMILE, NEW JERSEY
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
THE CRUCIBLE
THE BOXER
GANGS OF NEW YORK
THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
NINE (2009)