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Daniel Wroughton Craig CMG (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor. He gained international fame by playing the fictional secret agent James Bond for five installments in the film series, from Casino Royale (2006) up to No Time to Die (2021).
IMDb profile of Daniel Craig, the British actor who plays James Bond in five films. Learn about his early life, career, personal life, and upcoming projects.
- January 1, 1
- 1.78 m
- Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
Mini Bio. One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
- March 2, 1968
- Who Is Daniel Craig?
- Early Life
- 'The Power of One,' 'Our Friends in The North'
- 'Love Is The Devil,' 'Elizabeth'
- 'lara Croft: Tomb Raider'
- 'Road to Perdition,' 'Sylvia'
- 'Layer Cake,' 'Munich'
- Playing James Bond
- 'Casino Royale,' 'Quantum of Solace'
- 'Skyfall,' 'Spectre'
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Born in 1968 in Chester, England, Daniel Craig moved to London when he was 16 to join the National Youth Theatre. Following his big screen debut in The Power of One, the actor featured in the BAFTA-winning BBC miniseries Our Friends in the North and went on to roles in films like Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Road to Perdition. Craig also worked with...
Daniel Wroughton Craig was born on March 2, 1968, in Chester, England. Craig grew up near Liverpool, and enjoyed going to the theater with his mother and sisters. Many of his mother's friends were actors, and he felt drawn to the profession. "I kind of fell in love with the idea of acting ... I liked the idea of it—you know, shouting a lot and dres...
After graduating, Craig made his film debut in The Power of One (1992), a 1950s drama set in South Africa. His career then received a substantial boost with his role in the 1996 BBC miniseries Our Friends in the North. The serial drama enjoyed great critical reception and won several major awards in the year following its broadcast, including two B...
Another important role came in 1998 with the film Love Is the Devil, a biopic about the artist Francis Bacon (played by Derek Jacobi). Craig co-starred as Bacon's lover George Dyer, a small-time thief. Craig later described the project as "the first film I did that 'made me.'" That same year, Craig had a small role in the historical drama Elizabeth...
In 2001, Craig appeared as the romantic interest to Angelina Jolie's character in the action film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, based on the popular video game. Although the film was panned by reviewers, it was a hit with viewers—Tomb Raiderdebuted at No.1 at the box office and became the highest-grossing video game adaptation to date.
Craig next gave an impressive performance in 2002's Road to Perdition, adapted from the popular graphic novel of the same name. Craig played Connor Rooney, the murderous son of a mob boss (Paul Newman). The actor's standout performance was lauded by critics and fans alike. He then demonstrated his range when he portrayed poet Ted Hughes in the dram...
Craig made his debut as a leading man in the 2005 crime drama Layer Cake, as an unnamed character—called XXXX in the credits—who seeks to retire from his criminal enterprise. That same year, the actor got a chance to work with famed director Steven Spielberg in the drama Munich(2005), playing an Israeli agent working on a team charged with tracking...
Around this time, rumors had begun to swirl about Craig becoming the next actor to play the role of legendary spy James Bond. Fans used to previous Bonds played by the likes of Sean Connery or Pierce Brosnan objected to potentially having Craig in the part, arguing that he was too blond or too old. And film critics believed that, for a serious stag...
Proving the skeptics wrong, Craig made Bond history with 2006's Casino Royale. He reinvigorated the long-running film franchise with his modern take on the super spy, described by one critic as "a noble thug." Casino Royale became the highest-grossing Bond film to date, earning almost $600 million worldwide. Craig returned as 007 in the next instal...
But 2012 saw the return of Bond in a major way with Skyfall, a Sam Mendes-helmed enterprise co-starring Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Ralph Fiennes and Judi Dench as M, a character who comes under intense intra-agency attack. The lauded project was a box-office phenomenon, making more than $1.1 billion internationally and setting earni...
Learn about the life and career of Daniel Craig, the English actor who became the most recent James Bond. Find out his early roles, his collaborations with directors like Spielberg and Mendes, and his upcoming film No Time to Die.
Oct 6, 2021 · Daniel Craig is the bookend Bond, giving 007's story a beginning — and an end. October 6, 20217:00 AM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. By. Chris Klimek. 3-Minute Listen. Playlist. Enlarge...
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Oct 8, 2021 · Daniel Craig stars as James Bond in his fifth and last outing, facing a new villain with a deadly technology. The film features Ana de Armas, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux and more, with a theme song by Billie Eilish.
Oct 4, 2021 · Fifteen years and five films later, Daniel Craig’s tenure as 007 is coming to a close. “No Time to Die,” which opens in the U.S. on Friday after a 16-month delay due to the pandemic, is the last hurrah in Craig’s celebrated Bond era — a stewardship that ironed out some of Bond’s more retrograde char.
