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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),…
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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).
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Daniel Craig's Filmography
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Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
as Andrew Ketterley
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Benoit Blanc
Netflix Tudum 2025
as Self
Queer
as William Lee
Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero
as Self
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
as Benoit Blanc
The Sound of 007: Live from the Royal Albert Hall
as Self (archive footage)
The Sound of 007
as Self
Daniel Craig - Permis de jouer
as Self
No Poster
Designing Bond
as Self
No Time to Die
as James Bond
Being James Bond
as Self (voice)
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
as Wheezy Jeff
Knives Out
as Benoit Blanc
Kings
as Obie Hardison
Spielberg
as Self
Logan Lucky
as Joe Bang
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
as Self
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Stormtrooper (uncredited)
Spectre
as James Bond
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
as Self
Skyfall
as James Bond
Everything or Nothing
as Self
Bond on Location
as Self / James Bond
The World Of Bond
as Self
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
as James Bond
Happy and Glorious
as James Bond
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger
as Self
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women
as Self
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: On Location - Sweden and Hollywood
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
as Mikael Blomkvist
The Adventures of Tintin
as Sakharine / Red Rackham (voice)
Dream House
as Will Atenton
Cowboys & Aliens
as Jake Lonergan
One Life
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
as Bubbles (voice)
James Bond Supports International Women's Day
as 007
No Poster
Director Marc Forster
No Poster
Olga Kurylenko and the Boat Chase
Start of Shooting
Defiance
as Tuvia Bielski
Quantum of Solace
as James Bond
The Making of Casino Royale, 1967
as Self
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 Golden Compass
as Lord Asriel
The Invasion
as Ben Driscoll
James Bond: For Real
as Self
Casino Royale
as James Bond
Becoming Bond
as Self
Infamous
as Perry Smith
Munich
as Steve
The Jacket
as Rudy Mackenzie
Fateless
as US sergeant
Enduring Love
as Joe
Layer Cake
as XXXX
Burst
as Maxwell's Fan 9
The Mother
as Darren
Sylvia
as Ted Hughes
No Poster
Occasional, Strong
as Jim
Copenhagen
as Werner Heisenberg
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
as Cecil (segment "Addicted to the Stars")
Addicted to the Stars
as Astronaut
Road to Perdition
as Connor Rooney
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
as Alex West
Sword of Honour
as Guy Crouchback
Hotel Splendide
as Ronald Blanche
Some Voices
as Ray
I Dreamed of Africa
as Declan Fielding
Love & Rage
as James Lynchehaun
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
as Schiller
The Visitor
as Richard
The Trench
as Sgt. Telford Winter
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
as George Dyer
Elizabeth
as John Ballard
Sharpe: The Legend
as Berry
Obsession
as John MacHale
Saint-Ex
as Guillaumet
Kiss and Tell
as Matt Kearney
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as James 'Jemmy' Seagrave
A Kid in King Arthur's Court
as Master Kane
Genghis Cohn
as Lieutenant Guth, Schatz's replacement
Sharpe's Eagle
as Lieutenant John Berry
The Power of One
as Sgt. Botha
