‘We Enjoy Each Other’s Company’: Daniel Day-Lewis Opens up About His Wife and Children
Plus, new details on his film 'Anemone' which he is doing with his son
After eight years, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, 68, is returning to the big screen in a film directed and co-written by his son, Ronan Day-Lewis. It’s entitled Anemone and is expected to release later this year. But, before you grab your popcorn buckets and head to the theaters, you might want to learn more about the Day-Lewis family. Below, we’ve uncovered everything you need to know about all of them, including what people have to say about the father-son duo teaming up after all this time. Scroll on for more.
A look at Daniel Day-Lewis’ wife
Daniel and his wife, Rebecca Miller, have been together for almost 30 years. They met after he visited the home of her father, playwright Arthur Miller, back in 1996. Daniel was there at the time, studying for his upcoming role in The Crucible, a film adaptation of Miller’s 1952 play.
Then, just a couple of months after meeting, Daniel and Miller were married and have been together ever since. But it hasn’t always been easy, especially since Daniel is very well known for being a method actor.
“Since we got married 16 years ago, my wife has lived with some very strange men,” Daniel said in 2013, per the Daily Mail. “I mean, they were strange as individuals and probably even stranger if taken as a group. But luckily, she’s the versatile one in the family and she’s been the perfect companion to all of them.”
Miller doesn’t mind, saying in that same interview that it “helped” her writing. And one of the things she’s written and directed over the years? The 2005 film The Ballad of Jack and Rose, in which her husband starred.
“Rebecca loves working with actors and I think she understands extremely well the environment they work best in, how to create an environment that she knows is going to get the more creative possibilities. [But] I don’t think she ever used the word ‘honey’ on the set,” Daniel joked at the time, per Tail Slate, before sharing how Miller’s father, Arthur, impacted the film. “He was very much alive when we made that film. He was swimming in the sea in the film.”
Meet Daniel Day-Lewis’ children
Daniel has three children, two of whom he welcomed with Miller.
Before that, in 1995, Daniel and his then-girlfriend, Isabelle Adjani, had a son together named Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis. Currently, Gabriel-Kane is working as an actor and lives in New York City. He’s believed to be single and is 30 years old.
Next is Ronan Day-Lewis, Daniel and Miller’s first child together. He was born in 1998 and, like his mother, chose a career behind the scenes as both a writer and director—as demonstrated by his new film, Anemone.
“We could not be more excited to partner with a brilliant visual artist in Ronan Day-Lewis on his first feature film alongside Daniel Day-Lewis as his creative collaborator,” Focus Features Chairman Peter Kujawski said in a statement. “They have written a truly exceptional script, and we look forward to bringing their shared vision to audiences alongside the team at Plan B.”
Finally, in 2002, Daniel and Miller brought Cashel Day-Lewis into the world. He is currently 23 and believed to be working as a musician in New York City.
“I, like my parents before me, am endlessly saying, ‘When I was a kid’– and who cares about that? They don’t care. It’s their experience, that’s the important thing. You recognize characteristics of your own parents in yourself that you swore as a kid you’d never be like. And yet you are,” Daniel said of parenting in 2008, per People. “We [he and Miller] agree entirely about how to raise our children, and we enjoy each other’s company.”
Be sure to catch Anemone in theaters everywhere on October 3.
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