British actor Daniel Day-Lewis, the only male actor to have won three Best Actor Oscars, announced his retirement from acting on Tuesday. His agent Leslee Dart put out a statement that the 60-year-old "will no longer be working as an actor."
He won his first Oscar in 1990 for playing an Irish writer and painter with cerebral palsy in My Left Foot. He bagged his second Oscar for his role in Paul Thomas Anderson's oil drama There Will be Blood in 2008. Then, in 2013, for essaying the part of Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, he got his third Oscar.
He will always be called one of the best "method" actors of his generation -- he was known to be in character while on set; for instance, while filming Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot, he was on a wheelchair the whole time. Day-Lewis, who has a home in Ireland, is married to Rebecca Miller, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller, and has three children.
