Tamasin Day-Lewis

Television

Birthday September 17, 1953

Birth Sign Virgo

Birthplace Hammersmith, London, England

Age 70 years old

Nationality United Kingdom

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1953

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.

1970

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.

1973

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.

2011

In 2011 she collaborated with Hemmerle and created the book Delicious Jewels published by Prestel.

2012

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.

2019

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).