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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
Eric Lensherr
for Eric Lensherr in The Wolverine 4 Final Frontier
Suggested by underworld_stories
In this prologue to my X-Saga we see 30 years after the events of X-Men 4 Logan has become a recluse and the X-Men disbanded after Jean Grey obtained the Phoenix Force and killed Quicksilver. Eventually Logan has to come out of hiding to stop his half-brother Sabretooth once again with the help of Pyro. Throughout the movie we see Logan dealing with the fact that he's getting old and soon he will have to let himself die but before he does, he needs to defeat his brother. The movie goes on with Logan and Pyro trying to find Sabretooth, but they're interrupted by Bullseye who has taken up a contract with Tombstone after a bounty was placed on Logan for killing Wilson Fisk. Logan fights off Bullseye the best he can but just as he's about to defeat Bullseye Pyro is shot through the back of the head and killed by Magneto who now wants all the old X-Men dead for letting Quicksilver die who he learned was his son. The movie ends with a duel between Logan and Magneto which ends in Logan's death and Magneto calling Sabretooth to let him know the X-Men are no more. In the post credits scene, we see a dead Logan in the middle of the forest open his eye and say the name Charles as if someone was there next to him. The camera pans up to reveal the body of a man in a wheelchair in a suit.
