13 Stars You Never Noticed Retired From Acting (2 of 4)

Eva Mendes

She is still a very popular actress in Hollywood to this day, which is why fans might not realize that Eva Mendes hasn’t been on screen since the release of Lost River in 2014. Furthermore, she continues to make headlines in the celebrity news time and again with her partner Ryan Gosling welcoming two girls, Esmeralda and Amanda.

As it turns out, having to raise kids is the big reason she hasn’t been in any films since then.

We know this because a fan asked the now 47-year-old Mendes on Instagram why she hasn’t been in films and responded as such:

“As a mother now, there are many roles I won’t do. There are many subject matters that I don’t want to be involved with, so it limits my choices and I’m fine with that. I have to set an example for my girls now. But no worries, I got some side hustles.”

Daniel Day-Lewis

The last film Daniel Day-Lewis, 64, appeared in was the 2017 movie Phantom Thread. And this is to be believed as his final appearance. Especially when his team that same year issued a statement to Variety magazine stating:

“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.”

Despite that statement, he did expand on that statement later that same year in an interview: “I didn’t want to get sucked back into another project. All my life, I’ve mouthed off about how I should stop acting, and I don’t know why it was different this time, but the impulse to quit took root in me, and that became a compulsion. It was something I had to do.”

Portia de Rossi

Despite her brief return to acting in the second season of Netflix’s rebooted series Arrested Development, Portia de Rossi officially retired in 2017 with her final role as Elizabeth North on Scandal.

The reasoning was simple enough as she revealed in 2018 on the Ellen DeGeneres’ Show. In the interview, she said she wanted to try something different – specifically an art company project she called General Public.

“I was approaching 45 and I just kind of was wondering if there was something that I could tackle now that I’ve never done before that would be really challenging and different,” the 48-year-old explained. “I kind of knew what acting would look like for me for the next 10, 20 years, so I decided to quit and start a business. I see a lot of women in their mid-40s thinking about the next stages of their lives, and I didn’t want to regret not trying something.”