Daniel Day-Lewis, who turned 60 a few weeks ago, has announced his “private decision” to retire from acting. 

His representative Leslee Dart said in a statement: "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.”

Born in Kensington, Daniel Day-Lewis had an Irish father and an English mother, and moved to Greenwich when he was just two years old. 

He studied at Invicta and Sherington Primary Schools before he was sent to Sevenoaks School where he discovered acting.

It was a journey that would lead him to winning three best male actor Oscars for his performances in My Left Foot (1990), There Will be Blood (2008) and his role as US president in Lincoln (2013). 

His film debut was as a teenager in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971). 

Movie lovers may best remember Daniel Day-Lewis the actor for his performance playing Haykeye in the 1992 film The Last Of The Mohicans. 

He will also star in Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, based on the fashion world of 1950s London, later this year.

According to Variety magazine, the "method master" learned Czech for his part in The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (1988) and listened to

Eminem to build up the rage he needed for Gangs Of New York (2002).
In 2014 he was made Knight Bachelor of the British Empire by the Duke of Cambridge.