My Beautiful Laundrette

…acclaim for the gay romance My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), which starred a young Daniel Day-Lewis. He continued to garner praise with Prick Up Your Ears (1987), a biographical movie about British playwright Joe Orton, and the American films Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and The Grifters (1990), for which he received an…

…playing a gay hooligan in My Beautiful Laundrette and a staid Edwardian-era Englishman in an adaptation of E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View; the films brought him international acclaim, as did his performance as an adulterous surgeon in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). His portrayal of Christy Brown,…

…and the Academy Award-nominated film My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), starring Daniel Day-Lewis.