Daniel Wroughton Craig

Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor and film producer. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert. His breakthrough performances were in the films Layer Cake, SA native of Chester, England, Daniel Craig moved to London at the age of 16 to train at the National Youth Theatre. The classically schooled actor graduated from the esteemed Guildhall School of Music and Drama and made his film debut in the little-known Australian/American coproduction The Power of One, which also featured Morgan Freeman.

A series of made-for-TV films made Daniel Craig a recognizable face in the UK, but it was the 1996 mini-series, Our Friends to the North, which elevated Daniel Craig's status. The nine-parter followed the fortunes of four friends, and Daniel Craig, playing one such friend, shone in the prominent role. Two years later he was cast in a small role in Elizabeth and played Francis Bacon's lover in the British film, Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon.
Early life

Craig was born in Chester, Cheshire, England. His mother, Carol Olivia (née Williams), was an art teacher, and his father, Timothy John Wroughton Craig, was the landlord of the pubs "Ring o' Bells" (in Frodsham) and "The Boot Inn", and also served as a midshipman in the Merchant Navy. Both of Craig's parents were of half Welsh descent. He was brought up in Liverpool and on the Wirral Peninsula, and attended a primary school in Frodsham and Hoylake called Holy Trinity Primary School. He began acting in school plays at age six.

Craig moved to London when he was sixteen to join the National Youth Theatre after a stay at Calday. He and his older sister, Lea, attended Hilbre High School and Calday Grange Grammar School in West Kirby. He played for Hoylake Rugby Club. He attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama at the Barbican and graduated in 1991 after three years of study under Colin McCormack.
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In 2005, Daniel Craig starred opposite Adrien Brody in The Jacket and then hit the set of Steven Spielberg's project Munich. The following year, Daniel Craig lent his voice to Renaissance, along with Romola Garai.
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From 2000 onward, Daniel Craig was a more frequent fixture in Hollywood, appearing in 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Road to Perdition in 2002 and, most notably, Sylvia in 2003.

In 2005, Daniel Craig starred opposite Adrien Brody in The Jacket and then hit the set of Steven Spielberg's project Munich. The following year, Daniel Craig lent his voice to Renaissance, along with Romola Garai.
In 1999, Craig starred as Richard in a TV drama called Shockers: The Visitor. In 2007, he portrayed Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass, the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel. Eva Green, who played Bond girl Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, also starred in the film, although she did not appear in any scenes with Craig. In a stage version of the book, Asriel had previously been played by Timothy Dalton, one of Craig's predecessors in the role of James Bond.

In early 2001, Craig expressed an interest in being a part of the Star Trek franchise, professing his love of the series to the World Entertainment News Network and a desire to have a "stint in the TV show or a film. It's been a secret ambition of mine for years." On 16 March 2007, Craig made a cameo appearance as himself in a sketch with Catherine Tate who appeared in the guise of her character Elaine Figgis from The Catherine Tate Show. The sketch was made for the BBC Red Nose Day 2007 fundraising programme.
In 2008's Defiance, he played Tuvia Bielski, a Jewish resistance fighter in the woods of Belarus during World War II who saved 1,200 people.

The shot in Casino Royale of Craig sporting swimming trunks, has often topped many sexiest male celebrity polls and in 2009 Del Monte Foods launched an ice pop molded to resemble Craig emerging from the sea.
Craig co-starred with Hugh Jackman, in a limited engagement of the play A Steady Rain, on Broadway at the Schoenfeld Theatre, which opened in previews on 10 September 2009 and closed on 6 December 2009.[33]

Craig lent his voice and likeness as James Bond for both the Nintendo Wii game GoldenEye 007, an enhanced remake of the 1997 game for the Nintendo 64, and Blood Stone, an original game for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, and Microsoft Windows.

As of August 2010, Craig has been cast as crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist in David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattooome Voices and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.