Daniel Day Lewis is widely regarded as one of the greatest film actors of all time. From ‘Gangs of New York’ to ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, he has displayed a trans-formative power on screen that very few posses. When DDL is in a movie, he is the character he’s portraying. So it was sad to read today according to Variety, that Day Lewis is retiring from acting at the age of 60.
In a statement, Day-Lewis’ spokeswoman, Leslee Dart, 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. ” He goes out on top with a career spanning four decades and four Oscar awards on his mantle place. His last movie an untitled drama has already been filmed, and will see Day Lewis collaborate again with the well regarded Paul Thomas Anderson, who directed Day-Lewis to a best actor Oscar in 2007’s “There Will Be Blood.
My personal favorite role of Lewis’s is his performance in the emotional drama ‘In the Name of Father’ where he played Gerry Conlon, an Irish man who is believed to have committed a pub bombing with his father and is jailed by English officials.
