Daniel Day-Lewis, the only male actor in history to win three Academy Awards in the Best Lead Actor category has announced his retirement from acting offering no further comments about his decision. The sixty year old despite his celebrated status is one of the most choosy actors of all times having only made five films since 1998.

One of Daniel Day-Lewis`s early roles was a walk on part in Sir Richard Attenborough`s Gandhi` playing a young man who insults the Mahatma and the reverend Charles Freer Andrews. His Oscar statuettes came for his extraordinary works in My Left Foot` (1989), There Will Be Blood`(2007) and Lincoln` (2012). Known for his method acting where he used to remain in character throughout the making of a film which most times took a toll on his health. Legend has it that Day-Lewis in his previous hiatus worked as a cobbler as he took a fancy to it until Martin Scorsese coaxed him back to acting in his Gangs of New York`.

Fans of the living legend Daniel Day-Lewis need not despair as his final movie , as yet untitled directed by Paul Thomas Anderson is scheduled to hit the screens on the 25th of December this year.