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Daniel Craig (born March 2, 1968Daniel Craig is an English actor.

He was born in Chester, the son of a steel erector and art teacher. He was brought up in Prescot, near Liverpool. He also attended Hilbre High School, West Kirby (near Liverpool) and played rugby at nearby Hoylake Rugby Club. He 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 in 1992, and he later gained wider recognition in the UK with a co-starring role in the critically-acclaimed BBC2 drama serial 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 . Miller had recently been engaged to Jude Law, who had previously had an affair with his children's nanny in July. Craig's latest role was as a Jewish, South African-born Mossad agent in Steven Spielberg's controversial political thriller,

As early as February 2005, Craig had been named in the media as a possible contender to replace Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. On April 6, 2005 Craig was reported to have been signed by EON Productions as part of a three-film contract worth £15 million [1], however, 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.

Finally, on October 14, 2005, Eon Productions named Daniel Craig as the sixth actor to portray 007, taking over from Pierce Brosnan. Craig signed a three-film contract, with the first, , to begin filming in January of 2006 with an expected release of November 17, 2006. The announcement was made at noon in London at HMS President, a Royal Naval Reserve station at St Katharine Docks, on the banks of the River Thames downstream of Tower Bridge.

Born the year after the release of , Craig is the first James Bond actor to be born after the start of the film series, and the first to be born after Ian Fleming's death in 1964. Much media attention has also been given to him for being the "blondest" official Bond actor.