Daniel-Day Lewis was in movies.
Daniel Day-Lewis . He is one of the most selective actors in the film industry , having starred in only five films since 1998 , with as many as five years between roles . Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic period drama film directed by Martin Scorsese , set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City . In the Name of the Father is a 1993 Irish-British-American biographical courtroom drama film co-written and directed by Jim Sheridan . My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 British comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi . The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 American film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Milan Kundera , published in 1984 .