Daniel Craig profile
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Daniel Craig

2nd March 1968 Chester, Cheshire, England, UK Acting

Daniel Wroughton Craig (born March 2, 1968) is an English actor. He gained international fame by playing the fictional secret agent James Bond for five installments in the film series: Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021). After training at the National Youth Theatre in London and graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1991, Craig began his career on stage. He began acting with the drama The Power of One (1992) and had his breakthrough role in the drama serial Our Friends in the North (1996). He gained prominence for his supporting roles in films such as Elizabeth (1998), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Road to Perdition (2002), Layer Cake (2004), and Munich (2005). In 2006, Craig played Bond in Casino Royale, a reboot of the Bond franchise that was favourably received by critics and earned Craig a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. His non-Bond appearances since then include roles in the fantasy film The Golden Compass (2007), the drama Defiance (2008), the science fiction Western Cowboys & Aliens (2011), the mystery thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and the heist film Logan Lucky (2017). For his performance as Detective Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out film series (2019, 2022), he received two Golden Globe Award nominations. On stage, Craig starred in the Royal National Theatre's production of Angels in America (1993) on the West End. He made his Broadway debut in the play A Steady Rain (2009) and returned to Broadway in the revivals of Harold Pinter's Betrayal (2011) and William Shakespeare's Macbeth (2022). He starred as Iago in the New York Theatre Workshop production of Othello (2016).

81 Movies 39 TV Shows 1 In Production 128 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Queer poster
Queer 27th November 2024 as William Lee
Kings poster
Kings 11th November 2017 as Obie Hardison
Spectre poster
Spectre 26th October 2015 as James Bond
Skyfall poster
Skyfall 24th October 2012 as James Bond
One Life poster
One Life 19th July 2011 as Self - Narrator (voice)
Defiance poster
Defiance 31st December 2008 as Tuvia Bielski
Munich poster
Munich 23rd December 2005 as Steve
Burst poster
Burst 1st January 2004 as Maxwell's Fan 9
Sylvia poster
Sylvia 17th October 2003 as Ted Hughes
The Trench poster
The Trench 17th September 1999 as Sgt. Telford Winter
Genghis Cohn poster
Genghis Cohn 9th November 1993 as Lieutenant Guth, Schatz's replacement
Zorro poster
Zorro 5th January 1990 as Lieutenant Hidalgo
Today poster
Today 14th January 1952 as Self
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew poster Coming soon
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew 11th February 2027 as Andrew Ketterley