See also: Craig

Daniel Wroughton Craig (born the March 2nd 1968) is a British Acteur and the eighth actor to interpret officially the role of James Bond to the cinema. It made its beginnings as James Bond in the twenty and unième episode of the series, Casino Royal, greeted by the critic.

Youth

Daniel Craig was born in Chester, England, it is the son of Timothy John Wroughton Craig, which was useful in the merchant marine and worked in various trades; and Olivia Craig (born Williams), a professor of Article It was high in Frodsham then went to the college of Hilbre. Craig settled in London at sixteen years to join the National Youth Theater. It off takes also courses in Guildhall School Music and Drama, receiving a diploma in 1991. In 1992, it takes its first steps with the cinema in the Power of the angel of John G. Avildsen, with Stephen Dorff, John Gielgud, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Morgan Freeman. It cumulates the theater, the cinema and television. In 1996 it obtains its first main role on the small screen in the minisery Our Friends in the North and holds the first role in 1997 in a biopic of the BBC devoted to Francis Bacon, Love is the Devil: Study for has Portrait Francis Bacon off.

Career

Daniel Craig connects the supporting roles in many independent films, like Elizabeth of Shekhar Kapur, named with the Oscars, Splendid Hotel of Terence Gross or Berlin the Niagara of Peter Sehr. In 1998, it gains British Performing Award at the time of the Festival of Edinburgh for its interpretation in Love Is The Devil of John Maybury, with Derek Jacobi. In 2000, it obtains British Independent Film Award of the best actor for Some Voices of Simon Cellan Jones. It had already been named before for its service of English soldier in the Trench (1999) of William Boyd.

After having played the rival of Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), it continues its career in the United States in supporting roles, as a gangster vis-a-vis Tom Hanks in the Paths of Perdition film of Sam Mendes (2002), living a history of love with a woman having the double of her age in The Mother (2003) with Anne Reid, in 2005, it is, a dealer of cocaine in Layer Cake with Sienna Miller. In 2005 it integrates the prestigious casting of Munich under the direction of Steven Spielberg.

In 2006, after having played the part of James Bond in Casino Royal , Craig is Lord Asriel in the next adaptation to the cinema of the novel of Philip Pullman, In crossed worlds: The gold Compass . Eva Green, which played Bond Girl Vesper Lynd in Casino Royal figure also with casting. In a preceding adaptation of the book, Asriel had been previously played by Timothy Dalton, one of the predecessors of Craig in the role of James Bond.

At the beginning of 2007, Craig expressed its desire for playing in the universe Star Trek.

James Bond

Indicated on October 14th, 2005 to become the eighth actor to interpret the role of James Bond to the cinema (the sixth official one after Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan), Daniel Craig signed a contract for three films of the secret agent. The first, Casino Royal, whose turning started at the end of January 2006, left on November 22nd, 2006. Will follow on November 7th, 2008, the James Bond twenty-second of the official series realized by Marc Forster, whose code name is Risico .

Daniel Craig is the third English, after David Niven and Roger Moore, to put on smoking of James Bond. Its choice disappointed, even shocked many fans of agent 007, some proposing even to boycott film. However, criticisms strongly decreased after the Royal exit of Casino because of its realistic and more human representation of Jump, like its greater modernity.

Rumors diffused on many newspapers affirmed that Craig had lost two teeth in a scene of combat; Craig will affirm later that it was just about a crown which had been detached.

Many actors publicly expressed their support for Craig following the many polemics. Sean Connery declared that Craig was “very a good choice to incarnate 007”.

In 2006, Craig was nominated with the BAFTA in the category of better actor, which constitutes a first for an actor interpreting James Bond. February 2nd, 2007, he is also the first actor to gain a reward for his role of James Bond to Evening Standard British Film Awards, receiving the best reward of actor.

Catalog of films

Cinema

Television and others

  • 1992 : The Adventures off Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils off the Serves , left direct in video

  • 1992: Covington Cross-country race , televised series - episode 01
  • 1992: Boon , televised series - episode 80
  • 1993: Genghis Cohn , telefilm
  • 1993: Drop the Dead Donkey , televised series - episode 28
  • 1993: Sharpe' S Eagle , telefilm
  • 1993: Adventures of the young person Indiana Jones ( The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ), televised series - episode 27
  • 1993: Between the Lines , televised series - episode 14
  • 1993: Heartbeat , televised series - episode 25
  • 1996: Our Friends in the North , mini-series
  • 1996: Tales of the crypt ( Bruise from the Crypt ), televised series - episode 89
  • 1996: The Fortunes and Misfortunes off Moll Flanders , telefilm
  • 1996: KIS and Such , telefilm
  • 1997: The Ice House , telefilm
  • 1997: Predatory the ( The Hunger ), televised series - episode 02
  • 1999: Shockers: The Visitor , telefilm
  • 2000: Sword off Honor , telefilm
  • 2005: Archangel , telefilm

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