Daniel Day-Lewis retires after seven years | Daniel Day Lewis

Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is retiring from acting to star in his son's directorial debut.

The 67-year-old British actor gave up acting after starring in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 film “Phantom Thread” and has largely stayed out of public life since then.

But he is now set to star in a film called “Anemone” directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis, independent US production company Focus Features confirmed on Tuesday.

The film will star Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley and Safia Oakley-Green, among others, and is currently filming in Manchester.

Father and son wrote the script, which “explores the complicated relationships between fathers, sons and brothers and the dynamics of family bonds,” Focus Features said.

Daniel Day-Lewis made his film debut as a teenager in Sunday Bloody Sunday before taking on a number of memorable historical drama roles, including the role of Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans.

He is known for his commitment to method acting and has won three Academy Awards for Best Actor, for the roles of disabled Irish writer Christy Brown in My Left Foot, oilman Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood and Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's “Lincoln.”

Day-Lewis was appointed a Knight Bachelor of the British Empire by the Duke of Cambridge in 2014.

In June 2017, it was announced that he would be retiring from acting, months before Phantom Thread hit theaters.

“Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer work as an actor,” his representative said in a statement.

“He is extremely grateful to all his collaborators and audiences over the years. This is a private decision and neither he nor his representatives will have any further comment on this matter.”

He had previously taken long breaks in the industry, including working as an apprentice shoemaker in Florence in the 1990s.

“My life off the film set is one in which I pursue my curiosity as eagerly as I do at work,” he told the Observer in 2008. “It's with a very positive feeling that I stay away from working for a while.” It was always obvious to me that this would help me in my work.”

In January, Day-Lewis presented US filmmaker Martin Scorsese with an award for his western epic Killers of the Flower Moon.

The actor, who starred in Scorsese's “Gangs Of New York” and “The Age Of Innocence,” said working with the director was “one of the greatest joys and unexpected privileges of my life.”