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Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, the only man to win three Best Actor Oscar Awards and one of the most respected actors in the industry has announced his retirement from acting.
A statement from the actor’s agent, Leslee Dart, was released earlier today stating:
Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor. He is immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and audiences over the many years. This is a private decision and neither he nor his representatives will make any further comment on this subject.”
Daniel Day-Lewis, who is now 60-years-old has been admired throughout Hollywood for his mesmerising character portrayals, which he often spent years methodically and comprehensively crafting. He is notorious for being one of the most selective actors in Hollywood, having only starred in five movies since 1998 – two of which won him an Academy Award for Best Actor, and his constant devotion to the characters he plays is legendary as he remains in character for the entirety of the shooting schedule.
He was quoted in 2012 when discussing his OSCAR winning performance in Lincoln:
“I don’t dismember a character into its component parts and then kind of bolt it all together, and off you go. I tend to try and allow things to happen slowly, over a long period of time. As I feel I’m growing into a sense of that life, if I’m lucky, I begin to hear a voice.”
Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the most acclaimed actors in history with five Academy Awards Nominations in the Best Male Actor Category, where he has won an incredible three of those with My Left Foot (1989), There Will Be Blood (2007) and Lincoln (2012). He also has:
– Four BAFTA Awards for Best Actor
– Screen Actors Guild Awards
– Two Golden Globe Awards
– Named ‘World’s Greatest Actor’ by Time Magazine.
In 2008, when Day-Lewis won his second Best Actor Oscar for There Will Be Blood, he was presented the award by actress Helen Mirren, who had won the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal in The Queen; when Day-Lewis accepted the award he dropped to one knee where Dame Helen obliged by tapping him on each shoulder with the statuette and Day-Lewis said, “This is the closest I’ll come to a knighthood”, as he collected his award.
In November 2014, Daniel Day-Lewis was formally knighted by Prince William.
Due to his retirement announcement, Sir Daniel’s last acting role will be Phantom Thread, a film gracing the big screen at the end of this year. It is set in 1950’s London fashion industry and Day-Lewis portrays Charles James a designer commissioned to design for members of the royal family and other high society members.
Sir Daniel Day-Lewis will forever be immortalised in his films and his character development will go down in history as a revolutionary aspect of his films.
Thank you and good luck, Sir Daniel.
