His last film will be the upcoming ‘Phantom Thread,’ which has a December 25 release.

Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis has announced his retirement from acting.

A spokeswoman for the actor, 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. This is a private decision and neither he nor his representatives will make any further comment on this subject. ”

Lewis’ last film will be the upcoming Phantom Thread, which has a December 25 release, and reunites the actor with his There Will Be Blood director Paul Thomas Anderson. The film, from Annapurna Pictures and Focus Features is set in 1950s London and will see Day-Lewis playing a fashion designer who caters to high society. According to Dart, Day-Lewis plans to participate in promotion for the movie, which is expected to be an awards season contender/

The British actor, one of the most celebrated of his generation, known for the intense dedication he brings to each role, has been nominated for the Oscar five times and taken home the trophy on three occasions — for 1989’s My Left Foot, in which he played the physically-challenged artst Christy Brown; for 2007’s There Will Be Blood, in which he played a dirven, turn-of-the-century oil baron; and for 2012’s Lincoln, in which he played the title role of Abraham Lincoln.

The son of poet Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon, Day-Lewis made his film debut, in an uncredited role as a child vandal, in 1971’s Sunday Bloody Sunday. Having trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, in worked in England in both theater and television before he began to attract attention on film, appearing in 1985 in both the gay love story My Beautiful Laundrette and the E.M. Forster adaptation A Room with a View.

His roles have ranged from an American backwoodsman in The Last of the Mohicans to an Irish revolutionary in In the Name of the Father to a New York aristocrat in The Age of Innocence to a Puritan minister in The Crucible.

Extremely selective about the roles he chose and slow to sign on to any film, Day-Lewis went into what he described as “semi-retirement” in the late ’90s to return to one of his main interests, woodworking, and also moved to Florence, Italy, where he took up shoe-making. 

After five years, Martin Scorsese persuaded him to return to filmmaking in Gangs of New York, in which Day-Lewis played a colorful gang leader William “Bill the Butcher” Cutting.

More to come.