3-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis announces retirement from acting

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published 20 June 2017

Actor Daniel Day-Lewis will "no longer be working as an actor," his spokesperson told Variety on Tuesday. The three-time Oscar winner earned gold statuettes for his performances in Lincoln, There Will Be Blood, and My Left Foot.

Day-Lewis famously practices "method acting," remaining in character even when he's off the set of a film. He "once learned Czech to play a philandering doctor in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, listened to Eminem records to channel rage in Gangs of New York, and confined himself to a wheelchair for My Left Foot to play [Christy Brown, the film's protagonist], who had cerebral palsy," Variety writes.

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.

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