Daniel Day-Lewis, Jaguar, Mille Miglia 2013 cropped. 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. Day-Lewis unique v day gifts for him 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. Two years after Day-Lewis’s birth, he moved with his family to Crooms Hill in Greenwich via Port Clarence, County Durham.
He and his older sister did not see much of their older two half-brothers, who had been teenagers when Day-Lewis’s father divorced their mother. In 1968, Day-Lewis’s parents, finding his behaviour to be too wild, sent him as a boarder to the independent Sevenoaks School in Kent. At the school, he was introduced to his three most prominent interests: woodworking, acting, and fishing. For a few weeks in 1972, the Day-Lewis family lived at Lemmons, the north London home of Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard. There was something about him even then.
He was quiet and polite, but he was clearly focused on his acting—he had a burning quality. He seemed to have something burning beneath the surface. There was a lot going on beneath that quiet appearance. In 1985, Day-Lewis gave his first critically acclaimed performance playing a young gay English man in an interracial relationship with a Pakistani youth in the film My Beautiful Laundrette.