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Daniel Day-Lewis’s Milestones
| Acted with the Bristol Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Company | |
| First lead role for British TV, "How Many Miles to Babylon?" | |
| First stage role in a Sevenoaks production of "Cry, the Beloved Country" | |
| Took a leave of absence from acting by putting himself into "semi-retirement" | |
| 1971 | Screen debut at age thirteen in "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" |
| 1982 | First adult role (bit part) in "Gandhi" |
| 1982 | Starred for nine months in the West End production of "Another Country" |
| 1986 | Breakthrough screen roles, as a gay punk in "My Beautiful Laundrette" and an Edwardian dandy in "A Room With a View" |
| 1988 | American film debut, starring role in the little-seen "Stars and Bars" |
| 1988 | Confirmed leading man status as the playboy Tomas in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" |
| 1989 | Earned accolades, including a Best Actor Oscar, for his performance as quadriplegic Christy Brown in "My Left Foot"; also first film with director-writer Jim Sheridan |
| 1989 | Played "Hamlet" at the National Theatre in London; withdrew from the play in mid-performance with only seven more shows to go; London papers cited 'nervous exhaustion' |
| 1992 | Starred in Michael Mann's "The Last of the Mohicans" |
| 1993 | Co-starred in Martin Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence"; first screen pairing with Winona Ryder |
| 1993 | Reteamed with Jim Sheridan for the IRA drama "In the Name of the Father"; nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award |
| 1996 | Starred opposite Winona Ryder in "The Crucible" |
| 1997 | Third film with Jim Sheridan, "The Boxer" |
| 2002 | Returned acting to star in Scorsese's "Gangs of New York"; earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for his performance |
| 2005 | Starred opposite Catherine Keener in "The Ballad of Jack and Rose"; directed and written by wife Rebecca Miller |
| 2007 | Gave an award winning performance as a Texas oilman in Anderson's "There Will Be Blood," a loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! |
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