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 art teacher. He was brought up in Prescot, 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.

Craig's film career began with The Power of One in 1992, and he later gained wider recognition in the UK with a co-starring role in the critically-acclaimed BBC2 drama serial Our Friends in the North in 1996. He raised his profile in the United States in Sam Mendes movie Road to Perdition with Tom Hanks as a weasally murderer who hides behind his mobster father's shadow, Sylvia with Gwyneth Paltrow, and Enduring Love with Rhys Ifans.

On October 9, 2005 the News of the World revealed that Craig had been having a liaison with Sienna Miller, his 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. Craig is set to appear as a South African hitman in Steven Spielberg's controversial political thriller, Munich, in 2005

On October 14, 2005, Eon Productions named Daniel Craig as the sixth actor to portray James Bond, taking over from Pierce Brosnan. Craig signed a three-film contract, with the first, Casino Royale, to begin filming in January of 2006 with an expected release of November 17, 2006. The announcement was made at noon in London on the historic HMS President, a World War I spy vessel moored on the Victoria Embankment near the Blackfriars Bridge on the River Thames. Since February 2005, Craig had been named in the media as a possible contender to replace Pierce Brosnan as 007. On April 6, 2005, Craig was reported to have been signed by EON Productions for the upcoming film Casino Royale as part of a three-film contract worth £15 million. [1], but this news was later debunked by the BBC [2] who contacted EON for an official report. According to Craig, MGM offered him the role but the Broccoli family never got in touch with him.

Born the year after the release of You Only Live Twice, Craig is the first James Bond actor to be born after the start of the film series. Much media attention has also been given to him for being the "blondest" official Bond actor.