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Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig 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).
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entertainment · English actor (born 1968) · television actor · film actor · actor · voice actor · model · stage actor · also Daniel Craig, Dan Craig, Craig
Born 2 March 1968 · Q4547
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2026· 6 entries
“s release in the US, Craig was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame which is located at 7007 Hollywood Boulevard (referring to Bond”
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“The reason I wanted to get into cinema was because of movies like this. ... Scripts don”
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The Irish Sun: Daniel Craig’s role as honorary Royal Navy commander saved by The Sun after top brass planned to axe position
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Far Out Magazine: “It was a huge lesson”: the 2005 movie Daniel Craig was “terrified” of making
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The Guardian: Quantum of Solace: a heartbroken James Bond is fuelled by rage in Daniel Craig’s most underrated 007 film
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2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: Latest Daniel Craig Knives Out movie Wake Up Dead Man will open London film festival
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The Guardian: Daniel Craig in line for role in Greta Gerwig’s Narnia film for Netflix
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2024· 4 entries
The Guardian: Queer review – seedily terrific Daniel Craig carries Luca Guadagnino’s artificial-looking drama
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The Guardian: The style evolution of Daniel Craig: from basic to Bond to high-fashion chaos – in pictures
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The Guardian: ‘Sexuality is as individual as a fingerprint’: Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino on Queer
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Starred as William Lee in Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of William S
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2022· 2 entries
Awarded Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (2022).
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Craig starred in a contemporary revival of Macbeth opposite Ruth Negga on Broadway
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2019· 4 entries
Craig announced he had obtained American citizenship
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Craig starred in Rian Johnson's black comedy murder-mystery Knives Out as Benoit Blanc, a detective investigating the sudden death of a family patriarch
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In 2019, Craig announced he had obtained American citizenship.
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Craig appeared in a video with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, and launched the UNMAS Safe Ground campaign to turn minefields into playing fields
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2017· 1 entry
Craig co-starred in Steven Soderbergh's comedy Logan Lucky, about two brothers who pull off a heist during a NASCAR race
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2016· 1 entry
Was pictured wearing a "Vote Remain" t-shirt which was adorned with the words, "No man is an island
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2015· 2 entries
Had an uncredited cameo as a stormtrooper in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Craig appeared in the film Comic Relief: Behind the Bond for the BBC Red Nose Day 2015 fundraising programme
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2014· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “James Bond actor Daniel Craig gets free Aston Martin cars for life.” False.
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor in an Action Movie for Skyfall (2013).
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To watch the British and Irish Lions tour
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2012· 1 entry
Craig expressed a dislike and distrust for politics and politicians in general, being quoted as saying, "Politicians are shitheads
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2011· 4 entries
In a short film narrated by Judi Dench, which was produced for International Women's Day
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Collaborated with Dame Judi Dench to highlight gender inequality for International Women's Day
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Craig starred as investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist in David Fincher's 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Playing both the villainous pirate Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine and his ancestor Red Rackham
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2010· 1 entry
They began dating in December 2010, and were married in a private ceremony in New York City on 22 June 2011 with only four guests in attendance, including Craig's daughter and Weisz's son.
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2008· 2 entries
Describing him as "fantastic, marvelous in the part"
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In addition to Quantum of Solace and its accompanying video game, Craig starred in the drama Flashbacks of a Fool alongside Emilia Fox, as a washed-up Hollywood actor who reflects on his life; although the film was recei
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2007· 3 entries
Awarded Empire Award for Best Actor for Casino Royale (2007).
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Craig and British Prime Minister Tony Blair took part in the United Kingdom's Comic Relief charity fundraiser, ultimately raising more than USD $90 million
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The fourth film adaptation of the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, which was met with a negative reception
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2006· 2 entries
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
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Craig was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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2005· 1 entry
Craig starred in the BBC television film Archangel – based on Robert Harris' novel – as an English academic who stumbles upon a notebook believed to have belonged to Joseph Stalin
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2004· 1 entry
Craig first met longtime Bond co-producer Barbara Broccoli at the funeral of casting director Mary Selway, who had cast Craig in Love Is the Devil
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2001· 1 entry
Craig also starred in the four-part Channel 4 drama Sword of Honour, based on the trilogy of novels of the same
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film for Some Voices (2000).
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Craig co-starred alongside Toni Collette in the dark comedy Hotel Splendide and was featured in I Dreamed of Africa, based on the life of Kuki Gallmann (played by Kim Basinger)
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1997· 2 entries
About a love triangle between Craig's character and a couple
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Provided the German dubbing for Craig's voice in Obsession when "German with an English accent" was required
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1996· 1 entry
Craig starred in the BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North as the troubled George 'Geordie' Peacock
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1994· 1 entry
Craig appeared in The Rover, a filmed stage production and Les Grandes Horizontales, a stage production at the National Theatre Studio, where he first met Rachel Weisz, who would become his second wife
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1993· 1 entry
Craig was featured in two episodes of the American television shows Zorro and George Lucas's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and British shows Heartbeat, in which he played Peter Begg; Between the Lines; Drop the Dea
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1992· 2 entries
Playing an Afrikaner in The Power of One
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Craig married actress Fiona Loudon; they had a daughter, Ella, before divorcing in 1994
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1991· 1 entry
Craig began his career on stage
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1988· 1 entry
And graduated in 1991 after a three-year course under the tutelage of Colin McCormack, an actor from the Royal Shakespeare Company
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1984· 1 entry
Was accepted into the National Youth Theatre and moved to London, where he worked part-time in restaurants to finance his education
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1982· 1 entry
Played roles in Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella at Hilbre High School
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1972· 1 entry
And his sister moved to the Wirral Peninsula with their mother, where he attended primary school in Hoylake as well as school in Frodsham
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1968· 2 entries
Born 1968-03-02.
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Craig is the first actor to portray James Bond to have been born after the Bond series started and after the death of Ian Fleming, the novels' writer
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