One of the acting greats, three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, 60, is planning to retire from the world of acting. According to a report in Variety, the actor who has starred in several prolific films including Lincoln, There Will be Blood and The Last of the Mohicans, has one upcoming film after which he will say goodbye to a career that spans four decades.
One of the acting greats, three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, 60, is planning to retire from the world of acting. According to a report in Variety, the actor who has starred in several prolific films including Lincoln, There Will be Blood and The Last of the Mohicans, has one upcoming film after which he will say goodbye to a career that spans four decades.
Scheduled to appear on December 25, 2017, the untitled next is set in the world of high fashion and is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who also directed Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, which fetched him his second Academy Award.
The news in Variety is more than conjecture since Leslee Dart, spokeswoman for the actor, has confirmed the news. “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,” she said in a statement.
The son of poet Cecil Day-Lewis and English actress Jill Balcon, Lewis left the acting world behind once before and worked as a cobbler before Martin Scorsese convinced him to comeback to the big screen with The Gangs of New York. It remains to be seen if the actor will reconsider his decision.
