Daniel Day-Lewis the second child of poet Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon (1925–2009). His older sister, Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953), is a television chef and food critic. His father, who was born in the Irish town of Ballintubbert, County Laois, was of Protestant Anglo-Irish descent, lived in England from the age of two, and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Daniel's mother was Jewish; her ancestors were immigrants to England in the late 19th century, from Latvia and Poland. Day-Lewis' maternal grandfather, Sir Michael Balcon, became the head of Ealing Studios, helping develop the new
Lord John Joicey-Cecil Lord John Joicey-Cecil Lord John Pakenham Joicey-Cecil (3 March 1867 – 25 June 1942) was a British Conservative politician. Joicey-Cecil was the fourth son of William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter, and his wife Lady Georgina Sophia, daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford. Brownlow Cecil, 4th Marquess of Exeter and Lord William Cecil were his elder brothers. He was elected to the House of Commons for Stamford in 1906, a seat he held until January 1910 general election. In April 1910, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Lincolnshire. Joicey-Cecil married Isabella Maud Joicey in 1896 and assumed