Daniel Craig Biography

Family
Daniel Craig was born on 2 March 1968 in Chester-England's walled city to Carol and Tim. This British actor Daniel Craig grew up in Liverpool before moving to London. He has a sister Lia. At the age of 16 he moved to London to train at the National Youth Theatre and later graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Debut Film : "The Power of One"
Craig made his film debut in 1992 "The Power of One" directed by John G. Avildsen, wherein he played an Afrikaner soldier who beats and humiliates a white South African boxer (Stephen Dorff) trained by a black man (Morgan Freeman).

1990's
In 1993, Craig then appeared in "Genghis Cohn" (A&E, 1993). He played Master Kane in the Disney adventure "A Kid in King Arthur's Court". Returning to the U.K played a hapless musician turned homeless person in the BBC's "Our Friends in the North" (1996), an ambitious nine-part serial about the lives of four friends spanning thirty years and the TV "mystery The Ice House".

In 1996, he appeared in the PBS adaptation of Daniel Defoe's "Moll Flanders". He next appeared in the romantic thriller, "Obsession" (1997) with German director Peter Sehr where he met his future girlfriend, German actress/VJ Heike Makatsch. In 1998, his first leading role in the U.K. is portrayal of George Dyer, the intimate friend of painter Francis Bacon (played by Derek Jacobi) in John Maybury's "Love Is the Devil". While a return to PBS is "The Ice House" (1998). That same year, he appeared in "Elizabeth", the widely acclaimed historical biopic starring an Oscar-snubbed Cate Blanchett as the Virgin Queen.

2000's
After Elizabeth Daniel Craig appeared in many UK films in lead roles "Love & Rage" (late 19th century drama), "The Trench" (the World War I drama ), "Some Voices", and "Hotel Splendide". Craig earned a British Independent Film Award for Best Actor after his release "Some Voices" (2000).

As a part of Hollywood, he had smaller roles in "I Dreamed of Africa", "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" starring Angelina Jolie, and "Road to Perdition".

"Sylvia"
He next played Christine Jeffs' "Sylvia" (2003) his first mainstream leading role as a poet, Ted Hughes, husband to feminist icon Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow), who committed suicide after he left their deteriorated marriage.

While in 2004 he appeared in "The Mother" and "Enduring Love". In 2005, Craig was cast by Steven Spielberg to star in "Vengeance", the true story of the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olympics.

Daniel Craig : A New James Bond
Now (October 2005) Craig was officially revealed as the next James Bond, becoming only the second British actor to play the role and the first blond, for the film "Casino Royale" going to release in 2006. Producer Michael G. Wilson said 200 actors had been considered, but Craig was the only one who had been offered the role. Speculation about the new Bond included Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gerard Butler, Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Hugh Jackman, Heath Ledger and Eric Bana.