The wait is finally over. The much-awaited and anticipated movie, No Time to Die, is finally going to see its release in 3D on September 30. After being delayed numerous times due to the surge in Covid 19 cases. The movie has been in news since the day it was announced as it is going to capture Hollywood star Daniel Craig stepping in the shows of playboy spy James Bond for the last time. Ever since Craig emerged out of the sea in Casino Royale (2006) in a gender swap of Ursula Andress’s Venus-like appearance from the sea in Dr. No (the first James Bond film), Craig has made the international man of his mystery his own. The Dapper and ravishing star of Hollywood has created such a legacy for himself that now his name is used as an adverb to appreciate the work of an actor.
Daniel Craig born on March 2, 1968, Chester, Cheshire, England as Daniel Wroughton Craig, is that one actor who has managed to prove his mettle as the greatest actor blessed with restrained gravitas and ruggedly handsome features.
The son of Carol Olivia (née Williams), an art teacher, and Timothy John Wroughton Craig (1943–2020), a midshipman, left school in Hoylake at 16 to pursue his love of acting.
After dropping out of school, Daniel did audition for National Youth Theatre in 1984 and got selected for his first attempt. This audition helped him start his career with Troilus and Cressida.
In 1993 he played several roles in the Royal National Theatre’s production of Tony Kushner’s AIDS elegy Angels in America and in 1994 played one of a trio of 17th-century carousers in a Women’s Playhouse Trust staging of Aphra Behn’s The Rover.
Craig came in the eye of the England audience after his stint as a troubled young man in the relationship drama miniseries Our Friends in the North (1996); as the highwayman paramour of the title character in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders.
It took long for Daniel to leave the Tv industry made his first entry into the showbiz world of Hollywood but when he did he left us all astonished.
Craig appeared more frequently in Hollywood fare. He assumed supporting roles as a land manager in I Dreamed of Africa (2000), as the romantic interest of the title adventuress in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and as the son of a gangster played by Paul Newman in Road to Perdition (2002).
But it was Craig’s casting in the Casino Royale that took him to the sky seven of success and him a millennial star.
Casino Royale followed Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan’s final outing as Bond. Directed by Martin Campbell — who incidentally also directed Golden Eye (1995) which introduced Brosnan as Bond — Casino Royale was a rigorous reboot, including direct quotes from the 1953 novel.
In 2017 he played an explosives expert in Steven Soderbergh’s comedy heist Logan Lucky and portrayed the neighbor and love interest of a foster mother living in Los Angeles during the riots of 1992 in Kings.
