Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor. He achieved international fame as James Bond in the eponymous film series. Craig is of English, Welsh, and distant French Huguenot ancestry. He currently lives in London with his wife and two children.
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Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor. He achieved international fame as James Bond in the eponymous film series. Craig began his career on stage and made his film debut in the drama The Power of One. He has also starred in the television series Our Friends in the North and the film Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon. Craig is of English, Welsh, and distant French Huguenot ancestry. He is the son of Carol Olivia, an art teacher, and Timothy John Craig, a midshipman in the Merchant Navy. His middle name, W Roughton, comes from his great-great-grandmother, Grace Matilda Wroughon. Craig was raised on the Wirral Peninsula, and attended primary school in Frodsham and Hoylake, Merseyside. He left school and moved to London, where he worked part-time in restaurants to finance his training. He was accepted at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 1991 after three years of study under Colin McCormack. Craig appeared in his first screen role in 1992, playing an Afrikaner in The power of one. He then appeared as Joe in the Royal National Theatre’s production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America in November 1993. Craig starred in two episodes of the American television shows Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and British shows Heartbeat, Between the Lines, Drop the Dead Donkey and Sharpe’s Eagle.
In 1997, Craig gave a lead performance in the BBC television film Saint-Ex-Exession about a love triangle between a couple and a small-time thief. He appeared in three films in 1998, including the independent drama Love and Rage, which he played as Francis Bacon’s lover George Dyer. Craig’s part in the HBO horror anthology series Tales from the Crypt is considered his breakthrough role. He starred alongside Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee and Mark Strong in the episode Saint Tales of the Crypt and was featured in an episode of the TV series Tales From the Crypt. He also appeared in the biographical drama Elizabeth, in which he portrayed a Jesuit priest who was executed for being involved in an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England. Craig has appeared in several films, including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Road to Perdition, Layer Cake and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The last earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He currently lives in London with his wife and two children, and works as a consultant at the London office of the London Film and TV production company, L’Oréal. He lives with his partner of 20 years, Emma Watson, and their three children in the London suburb of Kensington, Kensington and Euston, and has two step-daughters, Lizzie and Charlotte, and a step-son, Callum.
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