Daniel Craig

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 nonBond 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 Theatres 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 Pinters Betrayal 2011 and William Shakespeares Macbeth 2022 He starred as Iago in the New York Theatre Workshop production of Othello 2016