Daniel Craig: Biography
Daniel Wroughton Craig (born March 2, 1968) is an English actor.
He was born in Chester, Cheshire, England, the son of a steel erector and an art teacher. He was brought up in Hoylake, near Liverpool, and moved to London when he was 16 to join the National Youth Theatre, later securing a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
On October 9, 2005 the News of the World revealed that Craig had been having a liaison with Sienna Miller, Craig's co-star in Layer Cake. Miller had recently been engaged to Jude Law, who had previously had an affair with his children's nanny in July.
Daniel Craig: Career
Daniel made his film debut in The Power of One, directed by John G. Avildsen. A few made-for-TV movies followed before his role of Master Kane in the Disney adventure A Kid in King Arthur's Court. Returning to the U.K., he starred in the miniseries Our Friends in the North, the four-part series Moll Flanders, and the TV mystery The Ice House. In 1997 he worked with German director Peter Sehr on Obsession where he met his future girlfriend, German actress/VJ Heike Makatsch. His first leading role in the U.K. came in 1998 with his portrayal of George Dyer, the intimate friend of painter Francis Bacon (played by Derek Jacobi) in John Maybury's Love Is the Devil. Other leading roles followed in the U.K. films Love & Rage, The Trench, Some Voices, and Hotel Splendide. In Hollywood, he had smaller roles in I Dreamed of Africa, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and Road to Perdition. In 2002, he played the German physicist Werner Heisenberg in the BBC historical drama Copenhagen. His first mainstream leading role came in 2003 as Ted Hughes, the partner of Sylvia Plath (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) in Christine Jeffs' Sylvia. In 2004, he can be seen in the U.K. films Layer Cake and Enduring Love.
Daniel Craig: Films
Casino Royale (2006), Have You Heard? (2006), Munich (2005), Layer Cake (2005), The Jacket (2005), Enduring Love (2004), The Mother (2004), Copenhagen (2003), Sylvia (2003), Road to Perdition (2002), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Some Voices (2000), The Trench (2000), I Dreamed of Africa (2000), Love and Rage (1998), Elizabeth (1998), Love Is the Devil (1998), The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996), A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995), Zorro: A Conspiracy of Blood (1992), The Power of One (1992)