Day-Lewis ‘amazed’ at knighthood honour

Daniel Day-Lewis said he was "entirely amazed" to receive a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

The star is not short of honours — his 2012 Oscar win for Lincoln made him the first man to win three best actor statuettes.

He said: “I’m entirely amazed and utterly delighted in equal measure.”

Day-Lewis, the son of former poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon, has been nominated five times for the best actor Oscar and has a reputation for taking his method acting very seriously.

He is said to have lived in a tent on a deserted Texan oil field during the making of There Will Be Blood.

To play Guildford Four member Gerry Conlon in the film In The Name Of The Father, he spent two days in a prison cell without food and water.

The 55-year-old, who grew up in south London and has dual British and Irish citizenship, is fiercely private and lives in Co Wicklow, with his wife, Rebecca Miller — daughter of playwright Arthur Miller — and their sons.