Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig was born on November 11, 1968 in Chester (Great Britain). His father, Tim, was a sailor who ended up working in the steel industry, and his mother, Olivia, was a teacher at an art school. After the dramatic separation of his parents, when Daniel was 4 years old, he went to live in Liverpool with his older sister, Lea, and his mother. She spent a lot of time with her students in one of the most famous theaters in the city, where little Daniel was related to stars of the British scene, such as Julie Walters ( Billy Elliot). Although Daniel Craig was good at rugby, and liked literature, he was not a good student, so he left school at 16, much to the despair of his mother, who arranged for him to audition for an acting course at the National Young Theater (National Youth Theatre), London. In order to pay for the classes and stay in the British capital, Daniel Craig had to work as a waiter. And though it was a tough time, he eventually got a place at the prestigious Barbican School of Music and Drama, where he met the likes of Ewan McGregor .

The young Daniel started off on the right foot, who before finishing school was chosen for The Force of One , in which he played a boarding school classmate of the protagonist, with racist and Nazi ideas. The same ones that the German officer who played in Daredevils of the Desert , a two-hour special episode of the series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones , written by Frank Darabont , intended for video editing, had. Unfortunately, it seems that he was pigeonholed as a television actor, since in the following years he was only offered roles in series, such as Boon , Tales from the Crypt and The Hunger .. One of them became a great success in Great Britain, where it is considered the best national television production of the 90s. It is Our Friends in the North , about the adventures of four friends in the most turbulent times of Margaret Thatcher’s government. .

Craig had married a woman outside the world of entertainment, with whom he had a daughter, but ended up divorcing. During the filming of the thriller Obsession , Daniel Craig fell in love with his co-star, the German Heike Makatsch , the actress who played the unscrupulous secretary who seduced Alan Rickman in Love Actually . And although both were a couple for many years, they finally parted ways. In contrast, Craig has always had a love for the stage, performing productions like the British version of Hurlyburly . In 1998 he had a good run on the screen. He started the year playing a monk who plotted against the queen, in Elizabeth. She then co-starred with the legendary Derek Jacobi in Love Is the Devil , a controversial biography of the painter Francis Bacon, in which he played a petty thief who aroused a homosexual passion in the artist. More rounded were his works in The Trench , where he was a soldier during World War I, and Some Voices , where he was a schizophrenic who stopped taking his medication. Around that time he also played a supporting role in I Dreamed of Africa , a Hugh Hudson drama , with Kim Basinger . Thus, it was a setback in his career to play a former lover of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, a film that he himself considers “an absolute waste of time.” Luckily, director Sam Mendes discovered him in one of his series, and decided to give him the role of the son of Paul Newman , the gangster from Road to Perdition . Although his convincing work was diluted by his presence in the cast of the great monsters of the interpretation, he appeared in one of the most remembered sequences, when he cruelly murdered a guy in front of Tom Hanks ‘ son . Next he took part in Sylvia , a biography of the writer Sylvia Plath, in which he played the poet Ted Hughes, husband of the protagonist, whom he induced to commit suicide. They say that he had a lot to do with choosing him as Bond the thrillerLayer Cake , where Craig plays an unnamed character, in a suit, very similar to James Bond, but who is involved in the drug trade.

After playing a convict in The Jacket , a thriller with fantastic elements, starring Adrien Brody , Daniel Craig was chosen by Spielberg himself, who made him one of the protagonists of Munich . “I was terrified when he called me, because I didn’t expect it,” explains the actor. “It tells a small story, which reflects a huge problem. I hope it creates a debate in society, and that it encourages people to try to find out the truth,” says Craig, who was one of the subordinates of Eric Bana ‘s character , sent to take revenge on the perpetrators of the attack on the Olympic team. Israeli. Now, Daniel Craig has pending release Infamous , another biography ofTruman Capote , where he plays Perry Smith, the murderer who fascinated the writer. Next will come The Visiting , a science fiction film by Oliver Hirschbiegel , director of The Downfall , which has featured Nicole Kidman as the protagonist. He is currently running Casino Royale , by Martin Campbell , a review of the first James Bond novel, which promises to be darker, but also more humorous than the latest installments of the character. It was Barbara Broccoli, daughter of legendary franchise producer Albert R. Broccoli, and the franchise’s head at the time, who hand-picked Craig out of numerous candidates when she dumped Craig.Pierce Brosnan for asking for too high a salary. Since then, he has received much criticism, especially when the news broke that he was unable to drive the agent’s mythical car, the Aston Martin DBS, because he was not used to manual gearshifts. “I’ve been under pressure ever since I was cast in the role, but I think the criticism is unfair until the movie is released.” The public will be able to judge for themselves from November 24, the scheduled release date in Spain.