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One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
He was born Daniel Wroughton Craig on March 2, 1968, at 41 Liverpool Road, Chester, Cheshire, England. His father, Timothy John Wroughton Craig, was a merchant seaman turned steel erector, and then became landlord of the "Ring O'Bells" pub in Frodsham, Cheshire. His mother, Carol Olivia (Williams), was an art teacher. Craig has English, as well as Irish, Scottish and Welsh, ancestry. His parents split up in 1972, and young Daniel was raised with his older sister, Lea, in Liverpool, then in Hoylake, Wirral, in the home of his mother. His interest in acting was encouraged by visits to the Liverpool Everyman Theatre arranged by his mother. From the age of six, Craig started acting in school plays, making his debut in the Frodsham Primary School production of "Oliver!", and his mother was the driving force behind his artistic aspirations. The first Bond movie he ever saw at the cinema was Roger Moore's Live and Let Die (1973); young Daniel Craig saw it with his father, so it took a special place in his heart. He was also a good athlete and was a rugby player at Hoylake Rugby Club.
At age 14, Craig played roles in "Oliver", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Cinderella" at Hilbre High School in West Kirby, Wirral. He left Hilbre High School at age 16 to audition at the National Youth Theatre's (NYT) troupe on their tour in Manchester in 1984. He was accepted and moved down to London. There, his mother and father watched his stage debut as Agamemnon in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida". As a struggling actor with the NYT, he was toiling in restaurant kitchens and as a waiter. Craig performed with NYT on tours to Valencia, Spain, and to Moscow, Russia, under the leadership of director Edward Wilson. He failed at repeated auditions at the Guildhall, but eventually his persistence paid off, and in 1988, he entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama at the Barbican. There, he studied alongside Ewan McGregor and Alistair McGowan, then later Damian Lewis and Joseph Fiennes, among others. He graduated in 1991, after a three-year course under the tutelage of Colin McCormack, the actor from the Royal Shakespeare Company. From 1992-1994, he was married to Scottish actress Fiona Loudon, their daughter, named Ella Craig (born 1992).
Craig made his film debut in The Power of One (1992). His film career continued on television, notably the BBC2 serial Our Friends in the North (1996). He shot to international fame after playing supporting roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Road to Perdition (2002). He was nominated for his performances in the leading role in Layer Cake (2004), and received other awards and nominations. Craig was named as the sixth actor to portray James Bond, in October 2005, weeks after he finished his work in Munich (2005), where he co-starred with Eric Bana under the directorship of Steven Spielberg. Craig's reserved demeanor and his avoidance of the showbiz-party-red-carpet milieu makes him a cool 007. He is the first blond actor to play Bond, and also the first to be born after the start of the film series, and also the first to be born after the death of author Ian Fleming in 1964. Four of the past Bond actors: Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan have indicated that Craig is a good choice as Bond.
He was appointed Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) by Queen Elizabeth II at the 2022 Queen's New Years Honours for his services to Film and Theatre.- Actor
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British Actor Bern Collaço was born in Dar Es Salaam, to George Collaço, an Electrical Engineer and Florinda Collaço, a Primary School Teacher. He has Portuguese ancestry and spent his early childhood growing up in Tanzania, East Africa and then in Goa, India. His later childhood being spent in London, England where he resides. He is a professional individual who has gained respect in the Film, Television and Commercial Industry due to his hard work and focused determination for success.- Make-Up Department
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He's a Canadian, British and naturalized American citizen. He started in amateur theatre and operatic societies as well as community cable television while still in high school. First film was as an assistant makeup artist on "Joshua Then and Now" and continued working as assistant makeup on numerous projects including "Anne of Green Gables" 'The Fly" "The Believers" and "Frontier" While just in his twenties he was makeup department head on "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future" winning a daytime Emmy nomination in 1988 and continued to department head several network miniseries and movies of the week. He works extensively with out of kit techniques in casualty effects. His stellar credits as a department head and personal make up artist in all aspects of feature film and television make up from period, corrective, casualty, beauty and straight make up as well as tattoo cover has been seen in countless feature films and projects for television. He worked extensively with Mark Wahlberg for many years as well as with Eminem. In recent years Donald has been working with Daniel Craig and continues to work as both a department head(The Fighter,8 Mile, Taking Lives,Repo Men, Prisoners, Everything Will Be Fine) and personal artist(Skyfall, Cowboys and Aliens) In 2012 Mr.Mowat received Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee Medal. Donald has also worked on numerous editorial/print projects with many actors and performers. Focused primarily on feature films from 1992 onwards his stellar career, commitment to the craft and industry as well as active involvement in many charitable causes has earned him an international reputation.- Stunts
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Ben Cooke was born on 17 March 1974 in Leeds, England, UK. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Casino Royale (2006), Skyfall (2012) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).- Additional Crew
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Cameron Lawther was born on 2 March 1990 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK. He is a producer and assistant director, known for World War Z (2013), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) and Gravity (2013).- Make-Up Department
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Love Larson was born on 11 June 1978 in Umeå, Västerbottens län, Sweden. He is known for Dune (2021), Dune: Part Two (2024) and Moon Knight (2022).- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Toby Spanton is an assistant director, director and writer.
With a degree in film studies from Winchester University, Toby started working for a post-production house in London. From there, his contacts took him into the television entertainment industry and finally onto the film industry, where he made a career as an assistant director.
In 2008 he wrote and directed his first short film, 'Curiosity', starring Emily Blunt and Tom Riley. The film screened at film festivals worldwide, including the 2010 LA Short Film Festival. The film was picked up for distribution and subsequently released on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play.
His second short, 'Two Skeletons', was shot in New York in 2011. The iPhone-shot drama, screened at the British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin and the Bootleg Film Festival in New York.
Toby's third short, Welcome to the Powder Keg', was shot in New York and London is 2018. The bare-knuckle fighting drama won 'Best Drama Short' at the 2019 Olympus Film Festival in LA and was shown at numerous festivals around the world.
Toby has written four feature scripts and is developing his first feature.- Sound Department
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Darren Bailey is known for The Batman (2022), 1917 (2019) and Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019).- Visual Effects
Trent Claus is known for The Mandalorian (2019), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).- Make-Up Department
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PJ began making music as a toddler, playing on drums, pianos, and whatever items he could get his hands on that could make a sound. He was born with perfect pitch, and he could hear a tune on TV or on the radio, and "play it by ear" on the piano. His parents recognized his natural abilities, and enrolled him in formal piano lessons at age 7. His first teachers were very impressed at the speed at which he completed his lessons, and they recommended that he be placed in a music conservatory to be trained in classical music by Mozart, Bach, Debussy, and other classical composers. During his training, PJ was always writing his own songs and began composing music as early as he could play music by other composers. He also liked to make recordings of himself as he played the piano.
He took notice of an emerging instrument, the analog synthesizer. He was impressed by how many different sounds synthesizers could make, imitating flutes, or pianos, or harpsichords, or even jet airplanes, helicopters, or ocean waves. He was seduced by what seemed to be limitless possibilities of the sounds that could come from a synthesizer. He decided he must not only buy his own synthesizer, but he also became interested in multi-track recording, which would allow him to record songs with multiple instruments, and be a one-man band in the recording studio.
On his 13th birthday, his father took him to a local music store and purchased a Korg analog synthesizer for him as well as studio monitors. Shortly after he received the synthesizer, he obtained a multi-track analog recorder, a drum machine, a microphone, and analog effects processors. This was the beginning of a life-long love of electronic music composition, recording, and audio engineering.
He attended Columbia College in Chicago, where he studied Audio Engineering. Later, he returned to college to study Computer Science. Now, with a combination of both music and computers, he has a well-rounded skill-set of both hardware and software instruments and recording techniques.
Music is in his genes, it's in his blood (in fact, he is the nephew of well-known classical composer, Antonin Dvorak)
To PJ, music and audio engineering is much more than a career choice, or a passion, it is a way of life...- Camera and Electrical Department
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Gareth Lewis was born on 3 November 1978 in Billinge, Wigan, England, UK. He is an assistant director and actor, known for 1: Nenokkadine (2014), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009).- Camera and Electrical Department
Wick Finch is known for Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Men in Black: International (2019).- Visual Effects
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- Location Management
Luc Gavigan is known for Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Allied (2016).- Visual Effects
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- Editorial Department
Dave Levine is known for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015).- Visual Effects
- Special Effects
Demitre Garza is known for Star Trek (2009), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) and Cloud Atlas (2012).- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
Mark Gillespie is known for Never Let Me Go (2010), Assassin's Creed (2016) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012).- Visual Effects
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Vincent Blin is known for Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Cloud Atlas (2012) and G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013).- Sound Department
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