Daniel Wroughton Craig, CMG, is an English actor, who is best known for his role as British secret agent James Bond in many film media from Casino Royale to No Time to Die. He is also well-known for playing Schiller in The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones installment Daredevils of the Desert, as well as Lord Asriel in the 2007 fantasy adventure film The Golden Compass. Additionally, he voiced Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, the main antagonist of the 2011 animated film adaptation of The Adventures of Tintin.
For Disney, he portrayed Master Kane in A Kid in King Arthur's Court. He also cameoed in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as a Stormtrooper which Rey performed a mind trick on.
Born in Chester, Cheshire in 1968, Craig is the son of an art teacher, Carol Olivia (née Williams), and Timothy John Wroughton Craig, a midshipman in the Merchant Navy and steel erector. His father later became the landlord of two Cheshire pubs: the Ring o' Bells in Frodsham and the Boot Inn in Tarporley. Craig has an older sister named Lea (born 1965). He is of part Welsh and distant French descent, counting the French Huguenot minister Daniel Chamier and Sir William Burnaby, 1st Baronet among his ancestors. His middle name, Wroughton, comes from his great-great-grandmother, Grace Matilda Wroughton.
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(A Kid in King Arthur's Court)
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- Craig was originally the first choice for the role of Thor Odinson in Thor,[1] but in the end, Chris Hemsworth was cast instead.
