Already well-known to audiences in his native
England,
Daniel Craig won
American acclaim in 2002 for his
performance as
Connor Rooney, the conniving son of crime
boss John Rooney (
Paul Newman), in
Sam Mendes' Road to
Perdition.
He will soon be seen in
Roger Michell's The Mother (which screened at the 2003
Cannes and
Toronto International Film Festivals), starring opposite
Anne Reid and
Steven Mackintosh.
Mr. Craig won the British Independent Film Award for Best Actor for his performance as a schizophrenic in Simon Cellan Jones' Some Voices. He had been nominated in the same category once prior, for his performance as a WWI sergeant in William Boyd's The Trench. His performance as George Dyer, opposite Sir Derek Jacobi as Francis Bacon, in John Maybury's Love is the Devil, brought him an acting award at the 1998 Edinburgh Film Festival.
His other feature film credits include Simon West's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider; Hugh Hudson's I Dreamed of Africa; Shekhar Kapur's Academy Award-winning Elizabeth (his first project with Sylvia producer Alison Owen); and John Avildsen's The Power of One. He also starred in Michael Radford's short film Addicted to the Stars, which was part of the Ten Minutes Older series.
Mr. Craig has starred in several notable miniseries that have been seen in both the U.S. and the U.K. These include The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (starring opposite Alex Kingston and directed by David Attwood); the BAFTA Award-winning Our Friends in the North (with Christopher Eccleston and Gina McKee); Sword of Honour (directed by Bill Anderson); and The Ice House (directed by Tim Fywell). He was most recently seen in Howard Davies' telefilm version of Copenhagen, adapted by Michael Frayn from the latter's original play.
He is also an accomplished stage Actor, having joined London's National Youth Theatre while still in his teens. He recently starred in multiple roles (opposite fellow Sylvia actor Sir Michael Gambon) in Stephen Daldry's West End world premiere staging of Caryl Churchill's play A Number (for which he received an Evening Standard Theater Award nomination as Best Actor). He previously starred in the Peter Hall Company's Old Vic staging of David Rabe's Hurlyburly; and in the London National Theatre production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America.
QUOTE (Zimarina @
Jan 30 2008, ...
