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Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is retiring from acting, his spokeswoman said, ending a storied movie career that made him one of the most widely respected actors of his generation.
- Statement says actor is "immensely grateful" to collaborators, audiences
- First man to win three Best Actor Academy Awards
- In 1990 he took time off acting to work as an apprentice shoemaker in Italy
Day-Lewis, 60, the only man to have won three Best Actor Oscars, gave no reason for his decision, calling it private.
"Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor," his representative Leslee Dart said in a statement.
"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."
He has one more movie in the works Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, which is set in London's 1950s fashion world and is due to be released in December.
Day-Lewis, who was born in Britain and holds dual Anglo-Irish citizenship, won his third best actor Oscar in 2013 for playing former US president Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln.
He previously won Academy Awards for his roles as a paraplegic Irish writer in My Left Foot and a greedy early 20th century oil baron in There Will Be Blood.
The tall, intellectual actor keeps a low-key profile and is known for choosing his roles carefully and taking long breaks between films.
In the late 1990s, he took time off from acting to work as an apprentice shoemaker in Italy.
After his 2013 Oscar win for Lincoln, London's Sunday Times reported that he planned to take a sabbatical at his farm in Ireland.
Day-Lewis is known for his meticulous preparation.
For Lincoln, he spent months researching Lincoln's political and personal life and before shooting began he was texting his screen wife, Sally Field, in 19th century vernacular.
For My Left Foot, he spent weeks living in a wheelchair, and while shooting Gangs of New York he was known for sharpening knives between takes to capture the menace of his character Bill "The Butcher" Cutting.
Reuters
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