Daniel Craig
Biography
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).
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Full filmography
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self - Guest
- The Daily Show (1996) as Self - Guest
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self - Guest
- The Graham Norton Show (2007) as Self
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Host
- Late Show with David Letterman (1993) as Self - Guest
- The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015) as Self - Guest
- The Colbert Report (2005) as Self - Guest
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Nominee
- Heartbeat (1992) as Peter Begg
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988) as Self - Guest
- Leute heute (1997) as Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014) as Self
- 60 Minutes (1968) as Self
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
- Tales from the Crypt (1989) as Barry
- Screen Two (1985) as Lieutenant Guth
- The Last Leg (2013) as Self
- The Oscars (1953) as Self
- Casino Royale (2006) as James Bond
- No Time to Die (2021) as James Bond