Daniel Day Lewis The Biography

A wealth of behind-the-scenes detail and exclusive interviews reveal the complex man behind one of Hollywood's best actors. Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar in 1990 for 'My Left Foot' and his many films include 'The Last of the Mohicans', 'The Age of Innocence' and, most recently, 'Lincoln'.

Regarded by many as the finest actor of his generation, Daniel Day-Lewis has become one of Hollywood's most bankable stars. His diverse performances in roles such as cerebral palsy sufferer Christy Brown in My Left Foot and Butcher Bill in Gangs of New York have cemented his reputation as a chameleon method actor. Yet behind the on-screen personas and theatrical masks lies a complex figure about whom relatively little is really known. Acclaimed biographer Laura Jackson has spoken to many close friends of the actor, including Dame Judi Dench and Simon Callow, and has provided us with a fascinating insight into this intense and talented star. As well as a wonderful portrait of his creative life, this book also reveals Day-Lewis's past relationships with his co-stars and how he has found happiness with Arthur Miller's daughter Rebecca. There are very few books about this reclusive and chameleon-like actor despite his award winning film roles and ever increasingly popularity. His new Oscar & Bafta nominated movie Lincoln is scheduled for UK release early 2013.

Three Time Academy Award winning Actor Daniel Day-Lewis has made history by winning three Best Actor Awards. He has starred in films along with Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, Emily Watson, Madeline Stowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson, John C. Reilly, Pete Postlethwaite, Camilla Belle, Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Winona Ryder, Emma Thompson, Juliette Binoche, Paul Dano, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman, Joan Allen and Sophia Loren . He has worked with great directors, Steven Spielberg, James Ivory, Rob Marshall, Jim Sheridan, Paul Thomas Anderson and Martin Scorsese. Packed with over 250 color photos and a film by film synopsis and description, and a thorough analysis of this Award winning great actor's career, background, and how he chooses and prepares for his roles -- this is the Ultimate Color Photo Biography and Trivia Book of this World Class Actor. Complete with filmography, index, interesting trivia, and 250 color photos, it provides an insightful look into this great man's film career, humble beginnings, to eventually reach the highest of heights in the Acting community and worldwide recognition. This will make a great gift for someone or for yourself. Full color 7" X 10" 220 pages.This Ultimate Biography color picture handbook covers the following Daniel Day-Lewis feature films: In the Name of the FatherThe BountyA Room With a ViewMy Beautiful LaundretteThe BoxerThe Unbearable Lightness of BeingMy Left FootLast of the MohicansThe Age of InnocenceGangs of New YorkThe Ballad of Jack and RoseThe CrucibleThere Will Be BloodNineLincolnON SALE!SPECIAL DISCOUNT PRICE THIS MONTHMoshe Publications, Inc.18375 Ventura Blvd.Suite #526Tarzana, CA 91356

Daniel Lewis's legacy as a hugely influential choreographer and teacher of modern dance is celebrated in this biography. It showcases the many roles he played in the dance world by organizing his story around various aspects of his work, including his years at the Juilliard School, dancing and touring with the Jose Limon Company, staging Limon's masterpieces around the world, directing his own company (Daniel Lewis Dance Repertory Company), writing and choreographing operas and musicals, and his years as dean of dance at New World School of the Arts. His life has spanned a particular period of growth of modern and contemporary dance, and his biography gives insight into how the artistic and journalistic perspectives on modern dance were influenced by what was occurring in the broader dance and arts communities. The book also offers rarely seen photographs and interviews with unique perspectives on many dance luminaries.

Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. This is Christy Brown's own story. He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot. In this manner he wrote his bestseller Down all the Days.

Poet, translator of classical texts , novelist, detective writer (under the pen-name Nicholas Blake), performer and, at that time , Professor of Poetry at Oxford, C Day-Lewis had many careers all at once. This first authorized biography tells the private story behind the many headlines that this handsome Anglo-Irish Poet Laureate generated in his lifetime. Day-Lewis made his name as one of the 'poets of the 1930s', launching a communist-influenced poetic revolution alongside W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender that aspired to spark wholesale political change to face down fascism. In the 1940s, 'Red Cecil', as he had become known, broke with communism, and with Auden. He went on to produce some of his most popular and enduring verse, reflecting both on the course of the Second World War and on the breakdown of his first marriage. Day-Lewis was always pulled between a fulfilling domestic life and a restless desire to explore. His travels, his infidelities and his reflections on his Irish roots are all part of the rich and many-faceted life that Peter Stanford describes. It is, however, as a poet that he is best remembered, and the poetry itself, often autobiographical, forms an integral part of this biography.