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Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English and Irish actor. Often described as one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, he is best known for intense method acting portrayed with eccentric characters in auteur films. He is the recipient of numerous accolades including a record three Academy Awards for Best Actor as well as four BAFTAs, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globes. In 2014, Day-Lewis received a knighthood for services to drama. Born and raised in London, Day-Lewis excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years. Despite his traditional training he is considered a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. Protective of his private life, he rarely grants interviews and makes very few public appearances. Day-Lewis shifted between theatre and film for most of the early 1980s, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company and playing Romeo Montague in Romeo and Juliet and Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Playing the title role in Hamlet at the National Theatre in London in 1989, he left the stage midway through a performance after breaking down during a scene where the ghost of Hamlet's father appears before him—this was his last appearance on the stage. After supporting film roles in Gandhi (1982) and The Bounty (1984), he earned acclaim for his breakthrough performances in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), A Room with a View (1985), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). He earned three Academy Awards for Best Actor for his roles as Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), oil tycoon Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007), and Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012). He was Oscar-nominated for In the Name of the Father (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), and Phantom Thread (2017). Other notable films include The Last of the Mohicans (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), The Crucible (1996), and The Boxer (1997). He retired from acting twice, from 1997 to 2000 when he took up a new profession as an apprentice shoe-maker in Italy, and from 2017 to 2024. In 2025, he starred in and co-wrote Anemone, directed by his son Ronan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Day-Lewis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Obadiah Stane
for Obadiah Stane in The Invicible Iron Man
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After reaching the age of 21, Tony's parents were killed in a car accident. Tony inherited Stark Industries, a unique Mega-Conglomerate that was a major supplier of militaristic equipment and weapons to the US. His 1st project as CEO was to buy out the network of companies and branches of the manufacturer that made his parents' car and was responsible for their death because it produced cars with an obviously defective brake system. He participated in rebuilding the system, thus preventing similar tragedies and saving thousands of lives. He hired Pepper Potts. During the war in North-West Pakistan, Tony Stark was present at a test of a newly developed weapon. On the way back, his convoy was attacked and he himself was wounded by his own mine, which caused several shrapnel near his heart. He is later captured by a local warrior. The terrorists force him to assemble a similar weapon to conquer the entire Far East region. Tony agrees, he doesn't want something like that to fall into their hands, he sabotages the whole project. With the help of Dr. Yinsen, he assembled a mini reactor suit and escapes. At a press conference, he announces that he is giving up weapons. learns that terrorists are attacking Jinsen's village with Jericho missiles, from Stane, flies to Pakistan in a suit and stops them. The success of the operation ended the long-running search for bin Laden, who is responsible for 9/11. Potts gets evidence on Stene. Iron Man and Iron Monger fight and Stane dies.
