Daniel Day-Lewis

British actor known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry. Received three Academy Awards and BAFTA Awards for Best Actor for portrayals of Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007), and Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012). He is the only male actor in history to have three wins in the lead actor category and one of only three male actors to win three Oscars. His role as Bill The Butcher Cutting in Gangs of New York (2002) earned him the BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Made his film debut in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), and did not appear on screen again until 1982. In the interim, he acted on stage with the Bristol Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Companies. Other films include My Beautiful Launderette (1985), A Room With a View (1985), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and In the Name of the Father (1993).