Daniel Craig

Daniel Wroughton Craig}} (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor. His accolades include two National Board of Review Awards, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.

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). Global stardom came from his portrayal of secret agent James Bond in the action film ''Casino Royale'' (2006), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He reprised the role in four subsequent instalments of the eponymous franchise: ''Quantum of Solace'' (2008), ''Skyfall'' (2012), ''Spectre'' (2015), and ''No Time to Die'' (2021).

In addition to a number of other film roles, Craig gained further recognition for narrating the documentary ''One Life'' (2011), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator. He also starred as detective Benoit Blanc in the ''Knives Out'' (2019 - present) and a gay man in the period romance ''Queer'' (2024); all three earned him nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. His other films include the fantasy ''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).

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). Provided by Wikipedia