Daniel Day-Lewis is a legendary actor, known for his roles in The Last of Mohicans ... In 1996, he portrayed John Proctor in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible. In 2002, ...

Actor Daniel Day-Lewis, winner of the Best Actor award for "Lincoln," poses in the press room during the Oscars held at Loews Hollywood Hotel in this Feb. 24, 2013 file photo in Hollywood, Calif.

When Daniel Day-Lewis, the greatest screen actor of his generation, announced this week that he would be retiring from acting, I had the same initial thought that, I assume, most everyone else did ...

Barring a huge upset, Daniel Day-Lewis will receive the best-actor Oscar for “Lincoln” on Feb. 24 and pull off what Marlon Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson and Spencer Tracy could not ...