Daniel Craig

Described as

English actor (born 1968)

Other names

Dan Craig, Daniel Wroughton Craig

Born

March 2, 1968 · 8 references

Born in

Chester · 2 references

Name at birth

Daniel Wroughton Craig

Citizen of

United Kingdom; United States · 1 reference

Occupation

television actor; film actor; actor · 2 references; voice actor; model; stage actor

Education

Guildhall School of Music and Drama; Calday Grange Grammar School; Hilbre High School

Awards

British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film (2000); Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor in an Action Movie (2013); Empire Award for Best Actor (2007); Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (2022) · 1 reference

Spouse

Fiona Loudon (1992–1994); Rachel Weisz (2011–) · 1 reference

Children

Grace Craig

Father

Timothy Wroughton Craig · 1 reference

Mother

Carol Olivia Williams · 1 reference

Religion

Anglicanism · 1 reference

Lived in

Primrose Hill; New York City

Wikipedias with a page

105

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Daniel Wroughton Craig ( CRAYG; born 2 March 1968) is an English actor. He gained international fame by playing the fictional secret agent James Bond in the films 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 for which Craig was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Since then he has acted in many films, including the fantasy 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). He has also played Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out film series since 2019. He starred in the romantic drama Queer (2024), for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globe Awards, Critics' Choice Movie Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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).

Born, in its opening lines

March 2, 1968

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