Daniel Craig Biography

Fast Facts

• Joined the National Youth Theater in London when he was 16
• Portrayed conservative Mormon Joe Pitt in the 1993 original London production of Angels in America at the Royal National Theatre
• Won Best Actor at the 2000 British Independent Film Awards for his portrayal of a schizophrenic in Some Voices
• Is the sixth actor to play a non-comic James Bond (starting with 2006's Casino Royale), winning over early naysayers who thought he was too short and blond to convincingly play the famous spy
• Rehearsed in frigid temperatures for three months and learned to speak Russian for 2008's Defiance, based on the true story of three brothers hiding more than 1,000 Jews in a forest to avoid Nazi capture