The actor Daniel Craig is famous these days for his gritty portrayal of James Bond in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, but he first came to prominence in the UK on the television series "Our Friends In The North" in which he played a personality called Geordie.
He appeared on the bog screen in several roles, including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider opposite Angelina Jolie and in Road to Perdition, with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman and directed by Sam Mendes. Nonetheless the film that brought him to the awareness of James Bond co-producer Barbara Broccoli was the Brit wiseguy motion picture Layer Cake, in which he played a drug dealer on the ascendancy and tackling the old guard.
The English actor was born in Chester in 1968 and got raised in the Wirral in the north west of England. After finishing his schooling at the age of 16 he joined the National Youth Theatre in London, having acted at college plays since the age of six. He later attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for three years from which he graduated in 1991.
One of his first roles was in the Royal National Theatre's production of Angels in America, in which he played Joe, and his small screen debut was in 1996 in Our Friends in the North. As well as Lara Croft, Road to Perdition, and Layer Cake, Craig also appeared in a string of films like Sword of Honour, The Mother and Sylvia, as well as Munich, Steven Spielberg's story of an Israeli hit squad sent to bump off members of the terrorist group that had been answerable for the deaths of several Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Daniel Craig was introduced to the world as James Bond in November 2005, which much debate among some fans, which was picked up on by numerous tabloids and sparked the beginning of a campaign against Craig. The negative press only really stopped when the first footage of the film was exposed, which showed the film in an extremely positive light and early press reviews before release were overpoweringly positive, which appears to have taken the producers back moderately.
He appeared on the bog screen in several roles, including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider opposite Angelina Jolie and in Road to Perdition, with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman and directed by Sam Mendes. Nonetheless the film that brought him to the awareness of James Bond co-producer Barbara Broccoli was the Brit wiseguy motion picture Layer Cake, in which he played a drug dealer on the ascendancy and tackling the old guard.
The English actor was born in Chester in 1968 and got raised in the Wirral in the north west of England. After finishing his schooling at the age of 16 he joined the National Youth Theatre in London, having acted at college plays since the age of six. He later attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for three years from which he graduated in 1991.
One of his first roles was in the Royal National Theatre's production of Angels in America, in which he played Joe, and his small screen debut was in 1996 in Our Friends in the North. As well as Lara Croft, Road to Perdition, and Layer Cake, Craig also appeared in a string of films like Sword of Honour, The Mother and Sylvia, as well as Munich, Steven Spielberg's story of an Israeli hit squad sent to bump off members of the terrorist group that had been answerable for the deaths of several Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Daniel Craig was introduced to the world as James Bond in November 2005, which much debate among some fans, which was picked up on by numerous tabloids and sparked the beginning of a campaign against Craig. The negative press only really stopped when the first footage of the film was exposed, which showed the film in an extremely positive light and early press reviews before release were overpoweringly positive, which appears to have taken the producers back moderately.
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