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Daniel Wroughton Craig (born March 2, 1968) is an English actor. He gained international fame by playing the fictional secret agent James Bond for five installments in the film series: Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021). After training at the National Youth Theatre in London and graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1991, Craig began his career on stage. He began acting with the drama The Power of One (1992) and had his breakthrough role in the drama serial Our Friends in the North (1996). He gained prominence for his supporting roles in films such as Elizabeth (1998), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Road to Perdition (2002), Layer Cake (2004), and Munich (2005). In 2006, Craig played Bond in Casino Royale, a reboot of the Bond franchise that was favourably received by critics and earned Craig a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. His non-Bond appearances since then include roles in the fantasy film The Golden Compass (2007), the drama Defiance (2008), the science fiction Western Cowboys & Aliens (2011), the mystery thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and the heist film Logan Lucky (2017). For his performance as Detective Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out film series (2019, 2022), he received two Golden Globe Award nominations. On stage, Craig starred in the Royal National Theatre's production of Angels in America (1993) on the West End. He made his Broadway debut in the play A Steady Rain (2009) and returned to Broadway in the revivals of Harold Pinter's Betrayal (2011) and William Shakespeare's Macbeth (2022). He starred as Iago in the New York Theatre Workshop production of Othello (2016).
The sequel to Semper Occultus. James Bond is sent on a mission to discover more about the unnamed NGO group and Emilio Largo. The film begins with a police raid in London that goes horribly wrong, killing innocent men, women, and even children. Bond knows Emilio and his group is behind the carnage, and vows to take them down once and for all for her Majesty's sake. His hunt takes him to Paris, into a deadly game of predator and prey, and a fateful meeting with the seductive Tylyn Mignonne, a movie star with a sordid past, who helps Bond find Emilio and his unnamed group. Eventually Bond is introduced to Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a Hollywood director that is directing Tylyn's husbands upcoming film, Pirate Island. It is quickly discovered that Emilio Largo and Ernst Stavro Blofeld are working together to move drugs out of Paris and into London. Leon Essinger, Tylyn's husband, is helping Blofeld and Emilio move the drugs into his underground shelter underneath his London mansion on the River Thames. With the help of Tylyn, James is able to stop the group and kill Emilio Largo. In an uneasy standoff, Tylyn shoots and kills her husband. Ernst Stavro Blofeld escapes by a helicopter piloted by a tall man with metal like teeth. Bond discovers the name of the NGO group is SPECTRE.
