Tamasin Day-Lewis Tamasin Day-Lewis Lydia Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 17 September 1953) is an English television chef and food critic, who has also published a dozen books about food, restaurants, recipes and places. She writes regularly for "The Daily Telegraph", "Vanity Fair", and "Vogue". Day-Lewis was born in Hammersmith, London. Day-Lewis is the daughter of Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis, who served as poet laureate of the United Kingdom in his last years, and his second wife, British actress Jill Balcon. Her brothers are actor Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Day-Lewis, who wrote a biography of their father. After attending Bedales School, she read English
Daniel Day-Lewis about Day-Lewis' standing among the greatest actors in the history of cinema. Joe Queenan in "The Guardian" stated: "Arguing whether Daniel Day-Lewis is a greater actor than Laurence Olivier, or Richard Burton, or Marlon Brando, is like arguing whether Messi is more talented than Pelé, whether Napoleon Bonaparte edges out Alexander the Great as a military genius." Day-Lewis himself when asked what it was like to be "the world's greatest actor", responded "It's daft isn't it? It changes all the time". Shortly after winning the Oscar for "Lincoln", Day-Lewis announced he would be taking a break from acting, retreating back