10 Actors Who Have Never Made A Sequel

by Danny Meegan

1. Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood
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he was going to win the Best Actor Oscar whenever he released a movie, and while things didn't always go that way, he did take home three of those coveted prizes throughout his illustrious career, for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, and Lincoln.

Much like DiCaprio though, Day-Lewis' career choices just didn't lend themselves to sequels. He preferred to act in serious dramas, a category of film that rarely - if ever - leads to a franchise, or even a single followup.

Couple this with his extremely selective nature, and it isn't really a surprise that he never found himself starring in a sequel or two. And considering that he's been retired for the last four years... it looks like he never will.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!