Daniel Wroughton Craig CMG (born March 2, 1968) is an English actor. He made his film debut in John G. Avildsen’s The Power of One (1992), with Stephen Dorff, John Gielgud, Morgan Freeman, and Armin Mueller-Stahl. Other early films include A Kid in King Arthur’s Court (1995), with Thomas Ian Nicholas, Joss Ackland, Art Malik, Paloma Baeza, Kate Winslet, and Ron Moody; Obsession (1997), with Heike Makatsch, Charles Berling, and Seymour Cassel; Love and Rage (1998), with Greta Scacchi and Stephen Dillane; Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth (1998), with Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, John Gielgud, and Richard Attenborough; Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998), with Derek Jacobi, Anne Lambton, Karl Johnson, Annabel Brooks, Adrian Scarborough, and Tilda Swinton; and The Trench (1999), with Paul Nicholls, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Danny Dyer, and James D’Arcy.
Films in the early 2000s include Some Voices (2000), with Kelly Macdonald, David Morrissey, Julie Graham, and Peter McDonald; Hotel Splendide (2000), with Toni Collette, Katrin Cartlidge, Stephen Tompkinson, Hugh O’Conor, Helen McCrory, and Peter Vaughan; Hugh Hudson’s I Dreamed of Africa (2000), with Kim Basinger., Vincent Perez, Eva Marie Saint, Garrett Strommen, and Liam Aiken; Simon West’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), with Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Iain Glen, Noah Taylor, Richard Johnson, and Chris Barrie; Sam Mendes’s Road to Perdition (2002), with Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stanley Tucci, Dylan Baker, and Ciarán Hinds; Sylvia (2003), with Gwyneth Paltrow, David Birkin, Jared Harris, Blythe Danner, and Michael Gambon; Roger Michell’s The Mother (2003), with Anne Reid, Vaughan, Steven Mackintosh, and Cathryn Bradshaw.
Films in the early to mid 2000s include Matthew Vaughn’s Layer Cake (2004), with Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, George Harris, Jamie Foreman, Sienna Miller, Gambon, Ben Wishaw, Tom Hardy, Burn Gorman, and Sally Hawkins; Enduring Love (2004), with Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton, Bill Nighy, Susan Lynch, and Corin Redgrave; The Jacket (2005), with Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, and Leigh; Steven Spielberg’s Munich (2005), with Eric Bana, Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, and Hanns Zischler; a voice role in the English dub of the French animated film Renaissance (2006), with Catherine McCormack, Romola Garai, Ian Holm, Jonathan Pryce, and Sean Pertwee; and Douglas McGrath’s Infamous (2006), with Toby Jones. Sandra Bullock, Lee Pace, Jeff Daniels, Peter Bogdanovich, Sigourney Weaver, Hope Davis, and Isabella Rossellini.
He gained international fame by playing the fictional secret agent James Bond in five installments of the eponymous film series: Casino Royale (2006), with Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Isaach de Bankolé, Rory Kinnear; Quantum of Solace (2008), with Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Giannini, Wright, Gemma Arterton, David Harbour, Tim Pigott-Smith, and Dench; Skyfall (2012), with Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomi Harris, Bérénice Marlohe, Wishaw, Albert Finney, and Dench; Spectre (2015), Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Whishaw, Harris, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci, and Fiennes; and No Time to Die (2021), with Seydoux, Whishaw, Harris, Wright, Waltz, Fiennes, Kinnear, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik, and Dali Benssalah.
Other films of the late 2000s include Oliver Hirschbiegel’s The Invasion (2007), with Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Northam, Wright, and Veronica Cartwright; Chris Weitz’s The Golden Compass (2007), with Dakota Blue Richards, Kidman, Sam Elliott, Green, Jim Carter, Tom Courtney, Christopher Lee, and the voices of Ian McKellen, Freddie Highmore, Ian McShane, Kathy Bates, and Kristen Scott Thomas; Flashbacks of a Fool (2008), with Harry Eden, Claire Forlani, Felicity Jones, Emilia Fox, Eve, Jodhi May, Helen McCrory, and Miriam Karlin; and Edward Zwick’s Defiance (2008), with Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner, and Mark Feuerstein.
Films in the early 2010s include Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens (2011), with Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, Keith Carradine, Clancy Brown, and Walton Goggins; Jim Sheridan’s Dream House (2011), with Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz (whom he married in 2011), Marton Csokas, Elias Koteas, and Jane Alexander; a voice/motion capture role in The Adventures of TinTin (2011), with Bell, Andy Serkis, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg; and David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), with Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, and Joely Richardson.
Films in the late 2010s to 2020s include Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky (2017), with Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Riley Keough, Katie Holmes, Katherine Waterston, Brian Gleeson, Jack Quaid, Dwight Yoakam, Sebastian Stan, Seth MacFarlane, and Hilary Swank; Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Kings (2017), with Halle Berry; Luca Guadagnino’s Queer (2024), with Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Henry Zaga, and Lesley Manville.
Under the direction of Rian Johnson, he played private detective Benoit Blanc in a series of modern whodunnits: Knives Out (2019), with Chris Evans, de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, and Plummer; Glass Onion (2022), with Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Bautista; and Wake Up Dead Man (2025), with Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church.
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(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- The Power of One (1992) – directed by John G. Avildsen
- Sharpe’s Eagle (1993) – directed by Tom Clegg – TV movie
- A Kid in King Arthur’s Court (1995) – directed by Michael Gottlieb
- Saint-Ex (1996) – directed by Anand Tucker – TV movie
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) – directed by David Attwood – TV movie
- Obsession (1997) – directed by Peter Sehr
- Love and Rage (1998) – directed by Cathal Black
- Elizabeth (1998) – directed by Shekhar Kapur
- Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) – directed by John Maybury
- The Trench (1999) – directed by William Boyd
- Some Voices (2000) – directed by Simon Cellan Jones
- Hotel Splendide (2000) – directed by Terence Gross
- I Dreamed of Africa (2000) – directed by Hugh Hudson
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) – directed by Simon West
- Sword of Honor (2001) – directed by Bill Anderson – TV movie
- Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) – directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Mike Figgis, Jiri Menzel, István Szabó, Claire Denis, Volker Schlöndorff, Michael Radford, &Jean-Luc Godard – anthology
- Copenhagen (2002) – directed by Howard Davies – TV movie
- Road to Perdition (2002) – directed by Sam Mendes
- Sylvia (2003) – directed by Christine Jeffs
- The Mother (2003) – directed by Roger Michell
- Layer Cake (2004) – directed by Matthew Vaughn
- Enduring Love (2004) – directed by Roger Michell
- The Jacket (2005) – directed by John Maybury
- Archangel (2005) – directed by John Jones – TV movie
- Fateless (2005) – directed by Lajos Koltai
- Munich (2005) – directed by Steven Spielberg
- Renaissance (2006) – directed by Christian Volckman
- Infamous (2006) – directed by Douglas McGrath
- Casino Royale (2006) – directed by Martin Campbell
- The Invasion (2007) – directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
- The Golden Compass (2007) – directed by Chris Weitz
- Flashbacks of a Fool (2008) – directed by Baillie Walsh – also executive producer
- Quantum of Solace (2008) – directed by Marc Forster
- Defiance (2008) – directed by Edward Zwick
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) – directed by Robert Weide – cameo
- One Life (2011) – directed by Michael Gunton & Martha Holmes – narrator – documentary
- Cowboys & Aliens (2011)* – directed by Jon Favreau
- Dream House (2011) – directed by Jim Sheridan
- The Adventures of TinTin (2011)* – directed by Steven Spielberg
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)* – directed by David Fincher
- Happy & Glorious (2012) – directed by Danny Boyle – short
- Skyfall (2012) – directed by Sam Mendes
- Spectre (2015) – directed by Sam Mendes – also co-producer
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)* – directed by J.J. Abrams – uncredited cameo
- Logan Lucky (2017)* – directed by Steven Soderbergh
- Kings (2017) – directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Knives Out (2019)* – directed by Rian Johnson
- No Time to Die (2021) – directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga – also co-producer
- Glass Onion (2022) – directed by Rian Johnson
- Queer (2024) – directed by Luca Guadagnino
- Wake Up Dead Man (2025)* – directed by Rian Johnson
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