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Whenever anyone asks who my favourite actor is, I don't need any time to deliberate. It's Daniel Day-Lewis each and every time. My answer has never wavered since I watched In the Name of as a teenager. The actor's thundering performance as Gerry Conlon, an Irishman who spent 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted as an IRA bomber, floored me. It was so raw and affecting; he turned himself inside out with rage and grief as someone railing against injustice.

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