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| Born | Daniel Wroughton Craig 2 March 1968 |
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| Alma mater | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
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| Years active | 1992–present |
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| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Full list |
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Daniel Wroughton Craig[a] (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor. His accolades include two National Board of Review Awards, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.
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). Global stardom came from his portrayal of secret agent James Bond in the action film Casino Royale (2006), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He reprised the role in four subsequent instalments of the eponymous franchise: Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021).[2][3]
In addition to a number of other film roles, Craig gained further recognition for narrating the documentary One Life (2011), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator. He also starred as detective Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out series (2019–present) and a gay man in the period romance Queer (2024); all three earned him nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.[b] His other films include 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).
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).
- ^ Lee, Tionah (3 December 2024). "You've Been Saying Daniel Craig's Name Wrong This Entire Time". eonline.com. NBCUniversal.
- ^ Hoyle, Ben (15 November 2006). "'Best Bond ever' vanquishes his greatest foe – the critics". The Times. Archived from the original on 24 February 2007. Retrieved 15 November 2006.
- ^ Gant, Charles (5 December 2012). "Skyfall windfall is UK box office's biggest ever". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 January 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
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