Daniel Day-Lewis and Ronan Day-Lewis interviewed by Mark Kermode

One of cinema’s most admired screen actors visits BFI Southbank to talk to Mark Kermode about his career.

The ultimate actors’ actor, Daniel Day-Lewis has worked with some of the world’s finest filmmakers, amassing a body of films that is defined by a commitment to excellence. From his first screen appearance, aged 14, in John Schlesinger’s drama Sunday, Bloody Sunday, through to the work that earned him accolades over the subsequent four decades, Day-Lewis has made an indelible impression on the art of screen acting. The only winner of three Best Actor Academy Awards, Day-Lewis’ has delivered era-defining roles in such diverse films as My Beautiful Laundrette, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, My Left Foot, The Age of Innocence, In the Name of the Father, Gangs of New York, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln and Phantom Thread. He returns to the screen in Anemone, which was shown at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival.

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