Daniel Craig
Born: 1968-03-02 in Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2027
- Narnia: The Magician's Nephew as Andrew Ketterley
2025
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as Benoit Blanc
- Netflix Tudum 2025 as Self
- Diverso: The Making of Queer as Self
2024
- Queer as William Lee
2023
- Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero as Self
2022
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery as Benoit Blanc
- The Sound of 007 as Self
- Daniel Craig - Permis de jouer as Self
2021
- No Time to Die as James Bond
- Being James Bond as Self (voice)
- Designing Bond as Self
2020
- Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas as Wheezy Jeff
2019
- Knives Out as Benoit Blanc
- The Dead Don't Die ... (Thanks)
2017
- Logan Lucky as Joe Bang
- Spielberg as Self
- Kings as Obie Hardison
2016
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Stormtrooper (uncredited)
- Spectre as James Bond
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2013
- The Last Leg as Self
2012
- Skyfall as James Bond
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- Everything or Nothing as Self
- Being: Liverpool as Himself
- London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder as James Bond
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger as Self
- Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars as Self
- Bond on Location as Self / James Bond
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women as Self
- Happy and Glorious as James Bond
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: On Location - Sweden and Hollywood
- The World Of Bond as Self
2011
- Cowboys & Aliens as Jake Lonergan
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Mikael Blomkvist
- The Adventures of Tintin as Sakharine / Red Rackham (voice)
- Dream House as Will Atenton
- One Life as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Organ Grinder's Monkey as Bubbles (voice)
- James Bond Supports International Women's Day as 007
2008
- Quantum of Solace as James Bond
- Defiance as Tuvia Bielski
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People as Daniel Craig (uncredited)
- Flashbacks of a Fool as Joe Scott
- Death in Venice: The Sinking Palazzo as Self
- The Making of Casino Royale, 1967 as Self
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- The Golden Compass as Lord Asriel
- The Invasion as Ben Driscoll
2006
- Casino Royale as James Bond
- Infamous as Perry Smith
- Becoming Bond as Self
- James Bond: For Real as Self
2005
- The Colbert Report as Self - Guest
- Munich as Steve
- The Jacket as Rudy Mackenzie
- Archangel as Prof. Fluke Kelso
- Fateless as US sergeant
2004
- Layer Cake as XXXX
- Enduring Love as Joe
- Burst as Maxwell's Fan 9
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- The Mother as Darren
- Sylvia as Ted Hughes
2002
- Road to Perdition as Connor Rooney
- Ten Minutes Older: The Cello as Cecil (segment "Addicted to the Stars")
- Copenhagen as Werner Heisenberg
- Addicted to the Stars as Astronaut
- Occasional, Strong as Jim
2001
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider as Alex West
- Sword of Honour as Guy Crouchback
- Sword of Honour as Guy Crouchback
2000
- I Dreamed of Africa as Declan Fielding
- Hotel Splendide as Ronald Blanche
- Love & Rage as James Lynchehaun
- Some Voices as Ray
1999
- Shockers as Richard
- The Trench as Sgt. Telford Winter
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert as Schiller
- The Visitor as Richard
1998
- Elizabeth as John Ballard
- Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon as George Dyer
1997
- Leute heute as Self
- The Hunger as Jerry / Handyman
- Obsession as John MacHale
- The Ice House as D.S. Andy McLoughlin
- Sharpe: The Legend as Berry
1996
- The Daily Show as Self - Guest
- Our Friends in the North as Geordie Peacock
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders as James 'Jemmy' Seagrave
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders as James 'Jemmy' Seagrave
- Saint-Ex as Guillaumet
- Kiss and Tell as Matt Kearney
1995
- A Kid in King Arthur's Court as Master Kane
1993
- Late Show with David Letterman as Self - Guest
- Sharpe as Berry
- Sharpe's Eagle as Lieutenant John Berry
- Genghis Cohn as Lieutenant Guth, Schatz's replacement
1992
- Heartbeat as Peter Begg
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Between the Lines
- Covington Cross
- The Power of One as Sgt. Botha
- Anglo Saxon Attitudes as Gilbert Stokesay
1990
- Zorro as Lieutenant Hidalgo
- Drop the Dead Donkey
1989
- Tales from the Crypt as Barry
1988
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
1982
- Menschen as Self
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1968
- 60 Minutes as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1952
- Today as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee