Daniel Craig

Daniel Carig is the sixth actor playing the role of James Bond - OO7

Daniel Craig's first steps

Daniel Craig was born in West Cheshire Hospital (1968) in Chester, Chestrfield, England. According to wikiperdia, Carol Olivia, Craig’s mother was an art teacher, and Timothy John Wroughon Craig was landlord of the pubs “Ring o Bells” and “Boot Inn”. Daniel Craig’s parents were of Welsh descent.

Daniel Craig attended the Frodsham and Hoylake (Holy Trinity Primary School) primary school in Wirral peninsula, and later he attended the Hilbre High School and the Calday Grange Grammar School in West Kirby. Daniel Craig started acting in School plays at age six.

Daniel Craig's Drama Education

Daniel Craig joined the National Youth Theatre (London) when he was sixteen. Daniel Craig attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Barbican) and he graduated in 1991, after three years study under the supervision of Colin McCormack.

      

Daniel Craig's Theater and Cinema Career before James Bond.

Daniel Craig’s career started in Royal National Theatre production Angels in America (November 1993). The same year Daniel Craig appeared in Heartbeat (Yorkshire Television). In 1996 played the part of “Geordie”  in BBC’s drama “Our friends in the North”.

Daniel Craig in Lara Croft : Tomb Raider (2001)

Daniel Craig played the part of Alex West character in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) with Angelina Joile.

Lara Croft : Tomb Raider is an adventure / thriller film adapted and inspied by the Tomb Rider video game. As I have mentioned Daniel Craig plays the role of Alex Waig another Tomb raider whose methods, tips and techniques are unscrupulous. Lara Croft and Alex West are attracted to each other, but Lara cannot stand his money hunting attitude.

Lara Croft : Tomb Riader was an enormous commercial success, until June 2010, Tomb Rider was the highest grossing video game to film adaptation worldwide.  

Daniel Craig in Sword of Honour (2001)

The same year he appeared also in the TV dramatisation pf trilogy “Sword of Honour” trilogy. Sword of Honour is about the war adventures of Guy Crouchback during Second World War.

Daniel Craig in Road to Perdition

Daniel Craig in 2002 played the role of Connor Rooney in Sam Mendes film “Road to Perdition”. I need to highlight that Sam Mendes is the film director of Skyfall the 23th James Bond film. In Road to Perdition participate also Tom Hawks and Paul Newman.

Every father is a hero to his son

The character Connor Rooney which was played by Daniel Craig is about the unstable violent son of John Rooney (main character) also Connor Rooney character is jealous of his father relationship with Sulivan (Tyler Hoechin). Road to Perdition is a film which plot takes place during the period of Great Depression in USA, and is a film about the father - son relationship and violence consequence as a mob enforcer and his son seek revenge against a mobster who murdered the rest of their family.

Road to Perdition is based on Max Allan Collins graphic novel. Road to Pedrition was distributed by Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks Inc and 20th Century Fox.

Road to Perdition is an amazing film, one of the best in my opinion. Cinematographer of Road to Perdition, Conrad L. Hall, won several awards among them the Academy Award for Best Cinematographer.

  

Daniel Craig in film The Mother (2003)

Daniel Craig plays the part of Darren a married handyman who is on a strange sexual affair with an oldrer woman.

The Mother is a film about older women and the fear of lost youth. The main character of the film is May (played by Anne Reid) a typical grandmother from Northern England, after the death of hers husband May visits London to her children. Fells trapped in a strange metropolitan city and she starts a sexual affair with hers daughter lover Darren (Daniel Craig) a many years younger man who is also renovating the apartment of hers son.

Daniel Craig in Sylvia film (2003)

Sylvia is a biographical film about the romance between poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Sylvia is an amazing drama film and covers the Sylvia and Ted affair from their first meeting in University of Cambridge in 1956 till Sylvia’s suicide in 1963.

Daniel Craig plays the part of Ted Hughes a real life character - Edward James “Ted” Hughes was a respectable British poet and children's writer.  

         

Daniel Craig in Layer Cake (2004)

Layer Cake is an exceptional crime / thriller film and is based on the J.J. Connolly’s novel with the same title. Daniel Craig plays the part of the main character (in the film the main character is unnamed and he’s identified as XXXX). Protagonist (main character) is a succesfull businessman based in London, his main business activity is cocaine trading, he stays far away from guns and violent actions. He has buid a fortune and he is planning to retire but his supplier Jimmy Price (Kenneth Granham) asks him a favor and then the action and begins a XXXX (Daniel Craig) is trapped in an underworld labyrinth of betrayal, hit man contracts, gangs war and struggle for survival.

Layer Cake is one of my loved movies, really, Layer Cake film is a masterpiece.

Layer Cake was directed by Matthew Vaugh.

Daniel Craig in Enduring Love (2004)

Enduring Love is based on Ian McEwan novel with the same name and was directed by Roger Mitchell. Daniel Craig plays the part of Joe an average typical man who after witnessing a deady accident feels an Instant Connection with a stranger man Jed - the feeling is getting day by day more intense and dangerous.

Daniel Craig in Munich (2005)

Munich was directed by Steven Spielberg and is about the Israel Goverment secret war against the Black September (a terrorist organization) responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Israel Olympic team during the Munich Olympic Games (1972).

Daniel Craig plays the part of Steve - a member of a five Mossad agents who try to track down and kill high level members of the organization Black September.

The film Munich is based on the book Vengeage : The true story of an Israeli Counter Terrorist Team  by George Jonas.

Daniel Craig in Infamous (2006)

Infamous is a drama film produced in USA, it's based on the 1997 book by George Plimpton. The main character of the film is Capotte, who has various friends, enemies, and detractors to influence and to be involved into his successfull career as writer. 

Truman Capotte famous in Big Apple (New York City)for his wit and fashion flair he is a well recognized and successfull writer of books like "Other voices", "Other rooms" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's", he learns about the murder of a four - member family in Holocomb, Kansas. He is very interested about this real crime case and he travel to the small town in Kansas. He interview a large number of local people, in the beginning was interested to write a magazine article later he believes that he has a lot of material to write a non fiction book. 

He finds access and interviews the ex - convicts of the murder case Richard Hickock and Perry Smith (Daniel Graig) in Las Vegas. Both of them are found guilty and then starts a long period of appeals. 

Daniel Craig in James Bond films - Casino Royale (please, click here)

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