Day-Lewis was born in
Hammersmith, London. Day-Lewis is the daughter of Anglo-Irish Protestant 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. She is Jewish on her mother's side, a descendant of 19th-century immigrants from
Poland and
Lithuanian Jews from what is now
Latvia. Her brothers are actor
Sir Daniel, Nicholas and Sean Day-Lewis (who wrote a biography of their father). After attending
Bedales School, she read English at
King's College, Cambridge from 1973 until 1976. She writes for
The Daily Telegraph,
Vanity Fair,
Vogue and
Food Illustrated. She was a regular on the London Punk scene in the late 1970s. She is currently on the Board of Governors at the
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In October 2012, Day-Lewis and her brother Daniel donated papers belonging to their father to
Oxford University, including early drafts of his work and letters from figures such as actor
John Gielgud and poets
W. H. Auden,
Robert Graves and
Philip Larkin. In 2011 she collaborated with
Hemmerle and created the book
Delicious Jewels published by Prestel. ==Bibliography==