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Daniel Wroughton Craig was born on 2 March 1968, in Chester, Cheshire, England, of part-Welsh and Huguenot ancestry and is an actor best known for portraying the role of James Bond in four movies of the franchise; his acting career actually began in 1992.

So just how rich is Daniel Craig, as of early 2018? Authoritative sources have estimated that his net worth is  as high as $45 million, enhanced considerably by playing ‘James Bond’. However, he has appeared in almost 40 films on the big screen, and been involved in 20 more shows on TV, plus made several stage appearances too.

Daniel Craig and his sister Lea were raised in the family of a pub landlord and an art teacher. He attended Holy Trinity Primary School located in Hoylake, then at the age of 16 Craig moved with his parents to London, where he attended the National Youth Theatre.

Daniel Craig started to make an investment in his net worth as an actor in 1992, when he had an opportunity to act in an American drama film called “The Power of One”. Four years later he was invited to play in “Our Friends in the North” as Geordie, and that made another great contribution to his net worth. Prior to playing 007, in the early 2000s other notable film roles included in “Sword of Honour”, “The Mother with Anne Reid; “Sylvia” with Gwyneth Paltrow; “Layer Cake with Sienna Miller; “Enduring Love” with Rhys Ifans, and Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” (2005) with Eric Bana, all adding steadily to Daniel’s net worth.

Of course, appaering in four films of the ‘James Bond franchise since 2006 has made Craig both famous world-wide, and relatively rich. Also, it’s estimated that these films have grossed over $3.5 billion at the box office, due in no small way to Daniel’s performance. “Casino Royale”, was followed by “Quantum of Solace” in 2008, “Skyfall” in 2012 and “Spectre” in 2015, with Craig’s performances praised in all of them, but particularly in “Skyfall”, which increased Craig’s amount of net worth immediately and made his name actually a household word. It was nominated for many different awards, and furthermore, Craig received an award from Critic’s Choice for The Best Actor in an Action Movie.

Talking about Daniel’s earnings, we should mention that he received $5 million for taking part in filming  “Dream House” in 2011, and in the same year he was paid $6 million for “Cowboys & Aliens”, followed shortly afterwards by one more popular Craig role, in the movie “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, together with Rooney Mara, Steven Berkoff and Christopher Plummer.

Craig has also increased his net worth even more as he has ‘played’ James Bond in several video games too. His debut as a voice actor in the games was in 2008, when he played in “007: Quantum of Solace”. Two years later he played in two games: “Golden Eye 007” and “James Bond 007: Blood Stone”. The last game in which Craig appeared as James Bond was released in 2011 and entitled “Golden Eye 007: Reloaded”.

Recent performances have been in “Logan Lucky” and “Kings” in 2017, but he also made a cameo appearance in “Star Wars: the Force Awakens” in 2015, and among other commitments hosted “Saturday Night Live” and narrated the TV film “Superheroes Unite for BBC Children in Need” in 2016.

In his personal life, Daniel Craig married actress Fiona Loudon in 1992, and they had a daughter before divorcing two years later. He was then in a relationship with German actress Heike Makatsch, and was subsequently engaged to Satsuki Mitchell – a film producer – from 2005 until 2010. However, after a friendship with actress Rachel Weisz over several years, they married in 2011.

Daniel does a lot for charity too, including fundraising for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, S.A.F.E. Kenya, Opportunity Network, and in 2015 became the first UN global advocate for the elimination of mines and explosive hazards, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon quoting – ” You now also have a licence to save!” – a reference to Bond’s ‘licence to kill’.

Daniel and Rachel divide their time between residences in London and Ascot.

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• [on whether or not continue to play James Bond] I were to stop doing it, I would miss it terribly.[October 2016]
• [on why he said he’d rather slash his wrists than play James Bond again]It was the day after filming ended on Spectre. I’d been away from home for a year.[October 2016]
• [on whether he would return for a fifth Bond movie]As far as I’m concerned, I’ve got the best job in the world. I’ll keep doing it as long as I still get a kick out of it.[October 2016]
• [on the character of James Bond] Let’s not forget that he’s actually a misogynist. A lot of women are drawn to him chiefly because he embodies a certain kind of danger and never sticks around for too long.
• This is what I do for a living. If I don’t take on challenges like this, then what’s the point?
• I’ve been working so hard, for however long it is I’ve been doing this, to try and stick to doing stuff I totally believe in and that would be wiped out. I thought, God, this is all right: I’m doing what I want to do. And that was a huge weight off my shoulders”
• [on how he looks upon his icon shot of Casino Royale (2006) where he walks out of the water] I don’t look at it, weeping, going “Wasn’t I beautiful!” Everything like that has been a voyage of discovery. I was aware of what was needed to be Bond. I’m not the coolest human being. But playing James Bond, you have to be cool. That was a big accident, that particular shot. I was pretending to swim in shallow water and then I stood up and walked out of the water! I was pretending to be cool by swimming, I thought it looked stupid and stood up and I walked off – and that was the shot!
• [on the physicality of playing James Bond at age 47 for Spectre (2015)] Am I getting my kit off in this movie? Of course I’m getting my kit off! I seem to be bare-chested throughout this film again! Yes, I’ve been working out for six months. I work myself to death’ to get fit. No secret method involved, just sheer hard graft. It’s getting harder I will admit, but such is life. I’ll keep going as long as I’m physically able.
• Everybody always moans, ‘Where’s Bond gone? Where’s all the jokes?’ Well, give us time! I always had a master plan in the back of my head that with the third movie – if I ever got there – it would be time to take the gloves off and bring the gags back in’.
• [on being asked to perform with Queen Elizabeth at the opening of the 2010 Olympics] My first reaction was ‘How many people will be watching? A billion and a half?’! I guess I’m doing this!’ She was great, a really good sport. When they brought it to me, they’d already told her that I’d be doing it. I didn’t have much of a choice. It was literally a Luca Brasi situation from The Godfather (1972) – an offer I couldn’t refuse.
• [on the evolution of James Bond in his movies] Sexual politics has come a long way since ’62, unless you want us slapping ladies on the ass and telling them to go and wait in the other room because the men are talking and that kind of stuff. Bond remains a little bit of a chauvinist, which I think is good, because it means if you stick strong women in front of him, then shit happens. It doesn’t take the sexiness out of it. The fact is he could die in any minute, and therefore he might as well jump into bed with somebody.
• Most people who behave in a macho way, it’s bluster. Most of the time we’re all bullshitting our way through life. There are strong people on this planet, but it’s all the swan technique: it looks beautiful on top and the legs are going like this, underneath, you know? Someone like Bond, it’s 90 per cent confidence.
• [on independent film] Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don’t blow out of proportion, is very liberating. But I wouldn’t like to self-consciously go out and look for some nice small project just to get a chance to prove my acting chops. It’s like, I think I’ve… done enough of that.
• [on product placement and the controversy over Skyfall (2012) featuring of Heineken and not a martini] Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it’s disgusting, or whatever, it’s what it is. . . . Heineken gave us a ton of money for there to be Heineken in a shot in a bar. So, how easy is that? Just to say, O.K., there’s Heineken. It’s there-it’s in the back of the shot. Without them, the movie couldn’t get sold, so that all got kind of blown up. ‘Bond’s new drink is a Heineken.’ He likes a lot of drinks-Heineken, champagne; it’s all in there. I’ll drink a beer in the shot, I’m happy to, but I’m not going to do an ‘Ahhhhh’ [pantomiming an actor looking refreshed]. And I would say this because they’re paying, but they’re kind of respectful about it. They don’t want to screw the movie up.
• [on how the character of James Bond has matured over time] What I’m doing is not what Pierce was doing, and Pierce wasn’t doing what Roger Moore was doing, or what Sean was doing, or what Timothy [Dalton] was doing. Things have changed. It’s just kind of the ride of it. Pierce used to say that it’s like being responsible for a small country. It’s kind of like you have to look after it diplomatically. I kind of get that, but I can’t really say that’s my deal. I’m not going to be the poster boy for this. Although I am the poster boy. It’s amazing how many times I’ve sat in interviews like this in a bar or a hotel, and it’s 11 o’clock in the morning and someone sends a martini over [laughing]. And it’s like, Really? It’s 11 o’clock! Cheers! I’m not going to drink it.
• You talk to people in the movie business who have been doing this 40 years and they all say the difference is that, back in the day, you could go and have a drink in the bar, get drunk, fall over, have a good time, relax, whatever, and no one would know about it. But now everyone’s got a camera. Not that all I want to do is get drunk in a bar, but that’s an example. So you can’t live a normal life anymore. Because it will become public knowledge that you’ve whatever-gotten drunk in a bar or skinny-dipped on a beach or something. Things that normal people do occasionally. And in a way that’s kind of-I’ve got to be high-class. I’ve done a lot of things in my life. But you have to think in that way. Which is sad, because I like bars.
• I think there’s a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel. It’s not about being afraid to be public with your emotions or about who you are and what you stand for. But if you sell it off it’s gone. You can’t buy it back – you can’t buy your privacy back. Ooh, I want to be alone. Fuck you. We’ve been in your living room. We were at your birth. You filmed it for us and showed us the placenta and now you want some privacy? Look at the Kardashians, they’re worth millions. I don’t think they were that badly off to begin with but now look at them. You see that and you think, ‘What, you mean all I have to do is behave like a fucking idiot on television and then you’ll pay me millions.’ I’m not judging it – well, I am obviously.
• [on the delayed sequel to Quantum of Solace (2008)] The new Bond movie is on hold but I am champing at the bit to get going on it as quickly as possible. I love playing Bond – I don’t want to be away from it for too long.
• [remarking on an injury he sustained on the set of Quantum of Solace (2008)] I lost my fingerprint, so now I can go out and commit all sorts of crimes.
• [on first hearing he had the role of James Bond) When [Bond producer Barbara Broccoli] rang me to tell me I’d got the part, I was buying dishwashing tablets in Whole Foods. I promptly dropped them and went and bought a bottle of vodka!
• Well, competition is so important, even when you’re an artist. And if you deny that there’s competition, then you’re a liar. That’s what gives you your ambition.
• Method actors suggest that you do sense memory exercises every time you do a scene. I use every method I can. Whatever works, I’ll use.
• I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn’t be anything else.
• [on preparing for his second James Bond performance] Last time I did a lot of weights to bulk up. This time I’ll do more running. I won’t be as “no-neck”. But when this guy takes his shirt off, he should look like he could kill someone.
• [interview with David Giammarco, Hello! magazine, 11/27/06, on on being approached to take over the James Bond character] [Pierce Brosnan] and I had a few drinks over it and we discussed it. And his advice to me was, “Go for it!”–which I think is the best advice I could’ve gotten.
• [on-set interview with David Giammarco, The Globe and Mail, 3/27/06] I got a personal trainer for Casino Royale (2006), which has been an absolute godsend. I knew I had to be in the best shape I could be, otherwise I would never survive it. Because at the end of the day, there isn’t any painting-it-in for this movie. These stunts aren’t going to be helped by CGI . . . what you’re seeing is the real thing. And I’ve got the bruises to prove it!
• [interview with David Giammarco, Hello! magazine, 11/27/06, about the plot for “Bond 21”] What we’ve done is set in process the idea that there’s an organization out there and Bond is now after them. That’s where we will pick up the next film. There’s going to be a real element of revenge.
• Sean Connery set and defined the character. He did something extraordinary with that role. He was bad, sexy, animalistic and stylish, and it is because of him I am here today. I wanted Sean Connery’s approval and he sent me messages of support, which meant a lot to me.
• I was affected by it – of course I was. What bothered me was that I was being criticized before I had done the work. I wasn’t going to get into an argument with these people, so my only response was, ‘See the movie and then you have the right to criticize, but first see what I am trying to do.’ It strengthened my resolve. I was hurt by it, but it just made me try harder. The pressure was there. I know a lot of people feel very passionate about the Bond movies, but so do I, so I just got on with it. What I tried to achieve was just making a movie people will want to go and see, and I think we have made a great movie. One of the things I was criticized for was that I looked like a bad guy, but I was happy with that because I think true good guys have to step into the dark side to do their job. I wanted people to question Bond’s morals and his judgment.
• I wanted to do as much of the action work as I could, so that the audience can see it’s me and it’s real. I feel like I became a sportsman of sorts, and that meant acquiring injuries and carrying on and bashing through to the next level of pain. Although the stunt team did fantastic work to make sure that everything was as safe as possible, if you don’t get bruised playing Bond, you’re not doing it properly. I had black eyes, I had cuts, I was bruised, I had muscle strains, and I took a lot of painkillers. But it was part of the job. As much as I was hurt, the stuntmen were in much more pain.
• I hope it’s going to be liberating. I’m not putting any negative spin on this because to be typecast as James Bond is a very high-class problem for an actor, and I’m certainly going to try to get as much out of it as I can. Of course I am always going to think about whether it is going to limit what I do. I plan for it not to, but if it does, I’ll approach that problem when it comes.
• [interview in Entertainment Weekly magazine] They [diehard James Bond fans] hate me. They don’t think I’m right for the role. It’s as simple as that. They’re passionate about it, which I understand, but I do wish they’d reserve judgment.
• [interview in Entertainment Weekly magazine] If I went onto the Internet and started looking at what some people were saying about me – which, sadly, I have done – it would drive me insane.
• [on the backlash from Bond fans] I didn’t expect this backlash. You take it in, you can’t help it. I’ve been trying to give 110% since the beginning, but after all the fuss, maybe I started giving 115%.
• I just wanted to see him [James Bond] make a few mistakes. I want to make the audience believe that it’s all going to go wrong and then when it goes right it’s much more exciting. Every day you pick up an injury and you’re battered and bruised. If you’re not physically fit then it’s difficult to get through. I’m a Bond fan. If I go and see a Bond movie there are certain things I think should be in it. And they’re there. We’ve got them in spades. Nobody knows more than I do how important this is, and it’s my job to get it right.
• I kind of feel that if you look at the track record of most Bonds – I mean Sean Connery obviously defined the part, and even he struggled for a while to get rid of the mantle. That’s the pitfall and it could happen to me. I’ve been working so hard, for however long it is I’ve been doing this, to try and stick to doing stuff I totally believe in and that would be wiped out. I thought, God, this is all right: I’m doing what I want to do. And that was a huge weight off my shoulders.
• [TimeOut London interview, 7 October 2015, answering “Playing James Bond is a lot about how you look – the clothes, the walk, the fitness. Do you ever get fed up with all that?”] It’s a drag. The best acting is when you’re not concerned about the surface. And Bond is the opposite of that. You have to be bothered about how you’re looking. It’s a struggle. I know that how Bond wears a suit and walks into a room is important. But as an actor I don’t want to give a fuck about what I look like! So I have to play with both things. In a way that works, as that’s Bond: he looks good and he doesn’t give a fuck what you think he looks like!
• I hate handguns. Handguns are used to shoot people and as long as they are around, people will shoot each other. That’s a simple fact. I’ve seen a bullet wound and it was a mess. It was on a shoot and it scared me. Bullets have a nasty habit of finding their target and that’s what’s scary about them.
• It’s something else. I’m speechless. I’ve just got to step up to the plate and deal with it. I had a confidence about it but then that’s because of the people around me who made me feel good about it. I knew positively on Monday. I was in Baltimore when I took the call. My first reaction was I needed a drink.
• [TimeOut London interview, 7 October 2015, answering “Do you want to move on from Bond for good?”] I haven’t given it any thought. For at least a year or two, I just don’t want to think about it. I don’t know what the next step is. I’ve no idea. Not because I’m trying to be cagey. Who the fuck knows? At the moment, we’ve done it. I’m not in discussion with anybody about anything. If I did another Bond movie, it would only be for the money.
• As far as I’m concerned, I want to be nowhere else. It’s difficult in film because everybody wants to make a safe bet with roles. But if you are going to do stuff then you should be getting strong reactions. I don’t want audiences to be going, ‘Yeah, that’s all right.’
• People always say, “That stuff you did in Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) must have been difficult . . . but I say, “No, it wasn’t really; that was some of the easier stuff to do”, because it was always clear and made a lot of sense. It’s when things are unclear and when you don’t know what you’re doing–that’s when things are difficult.
• [TimeOut London interview, 7 October 2015, answering “Can you imagine doing another Bond movie?”] Now? I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists. No, not at the moment. Not at all. That’s fine. I’m over it at the moment. We’re done. All I want to do is move on.
• I don’t believe in self-promotion, really I can’t be arsed.
• I go through life thinking it’s all going to end tomorrow.
• [TimeOut London interview, 7 October 2015, answering “Do you ever look back and think: How the hell did I end up playing James Bond?”] I know, it’s ludicrous, it’s ridiculous. When I first got approached, I just thought: You’ve made a mistake. I don’t know, it’s still crazy.

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• After filming for Casino Royale had wrapped and before production for Quantum of Solace began he had his body insured for $9.5 million.
• After Spectre, he was reportedly offered $150 million for two more bond films.
• Makes an uncredited cameo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) as the stormtrooper on whom Rey performs a Jedi mind trick.
• Got into an altercation with a man after the man pinched his girlfriend’s rear end.
• Is a very big fan of science fiction series such as Firefly (2002), Star Trek (1966) and Doctor Who (1963).
• His father went to the same school as John Lennon.
• Finished filming Quantum of Solace (2008). [June 2008]
• January 30th: Started shooting on his new film Casino Royale (2006) in the Bahamas. [January 2006]
• In Chile, filming Quantum of Solace (2008). [March 2008]
• January 4th: Started filming Quantum of Solace (2008) [January 2008]
• Filming The Adventures of Tintin (2011). [January 2009]
• His ancestry includes English, as well as Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and distant French Huguenot. He is a descendant of Sir William Burnaby, 1st Baronet (c. 1710-1776), a naval officer, and of Huguenot minister Daniel Chamier (1564-1621).
• Is a fan of band Radiohead.
• Close friends with Mark Strong and is the godfather of one of his sons.
• First cousin, once removed, of Simon Jones.
• Lives in London, England.
• Was considered for the part of Doctor in Blindness (2008) but Mark Ruffalo was cast instead.
• While incognito at a cinema in the USA, he was once asked if anyone had ever told him that he looked like Daniel Craig. He answered “no” and walked away.
• Became good friends with Nicole Kidman, after they worked together on The Invasion (2007), and The Golden Compass (2007).
• He was a fan of the fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, before he was cast in the the trilogy’s first chapter The Golden Compass (2007).
• Is a big fan of Robert Altman films.
• Ranked #29 in the 2008 Telegraph’s list “the 100 most powerful people in British culture”.
• Quit smoking before making Casino Royale (2006).
• Graduated from Guildhall of Music & Drama (London) in 1991.
• October 2007 – Signed on to play “James Bond” in four more films after Casino Royale (2006).
• One of 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007.
• Voted #7 in Elle (France) Magazine’s “15 Sexiest Men” poll (June 2007).
• He’s a fan of Liverpool Football Club.
• His then girlfriend Satsuki Mitchell accompanied him to the world premiere of Casino Royale (2006) in London. It was their first public appearance together.
• Was the only member of the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) cast to be a huge fan of the Tomb Raider video games.
• Esquire magazine’s “Best dressed male” in 2006
• Visited Sarajevo Film Festival in 2005.
• Good friend of supermodel Kate Moss, Gaspard Ulliel and Nicole Kidman.
• Older sister: Lea Craig
• Mother: Olivia Craig
• Father: Tim Craig
• Was the last actor considered for the role of “Rorschach” in the movie adaptation of Alan Moore’s comic-book mini-series, Watchmen (2009).
• One of the many actors considered to take over James Bond from Pierce Brosnan. He officially accepted the role in October, 2005.
• He was nominated for a 2002 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Number at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs.
• 2000: Named as one of European films ‘Shooting Stars’ by European Film Promotion.
• He has a daughter, Ella Craig (born 1992), who lives with his ex-wife Fiona Loudon in London.
• (2001-2004) Lived in London with German actress Heike Makatsch.

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