Daniel Craig Net Worth: Income, Career, New Cars

Daniel Craig Net Worth:
$180 million

Daniel Craig is an English actor who has starred in many films and done theatre roles. He is famous for his role as James Bond in the movies -Skyfall, Casino Royale, Spectre, and Quantum of Solace. He is famous for his deep, smooth voice. Daniel Craig net worth is $180 million.

Daniel Craig Net Worth

The estimated net worth of Daniel Craig is more than $180 million. Most of his income is from films. He is a world-famous actor and one of the highest-paid actors. His film has crossed millions of Dollars at the box office.

Daniel Craig James Bond Earnings

Daniel has earned much of his current fortune because of his role as James Bond. His salary in acting as James Bond is a total worth of $85.4 million. The total is divided as follows:

Various report says that he earned more than $100 million for the second and third films in Knives Out. According to celebrity net worth, the actor has earned a base salary of $25 million for the film No Time to Die. Apart from these movies, other movies such as The Invasion(2007), Defiance(2008), Cowboys And Aliens(2011), and Kings(2017) have also contributed to his earnings.

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Daniel Craig Biography

Early Life

Daniel Wroughton Craig was born on March 2, 1968, in Chester, Cheshire, England. His mother is Carol Olivia (an art Teacher ) and Timothy John Wroughton Craig(a midshipman in the Merchant Navy and Steel Erecter). After his parents got divorced, he and his sister moved to Wirral Peninsula with his mother.

Daniel began acting in his school plays at the age of 6. He played the roles of Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet at the age of 14 at Hilbre High School. He then moved to London as he was accepted to the National Youth Theatre. He used to do part-time jobs in restaurants to support his finance and education. In 1991, he graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Career

Craig’s first screenplay was in the movie The Power of One in 1992 when he was 24 years old.in 1993, he joined the Royal National Theatre’s production of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America”. He made appearances in various TV shows which include Zorro, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Heartbeat Drop the Dead Donkey Between the Lines, and Sharpe’s Eagle. In 1994, he appeared in the movie The Rover.

His first breakthrough role was in 1996 when he starred in the BBC Drama Serial Our Friends in the North. He then played notable roles in the film Saint-Ex, French French-German drama Obsession, the Drama Love and Rage, the Biological Drama Elizabeth, the BBC television film Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, the Television drama Shockers: The Visitor and in the movie the Trench in 90s.

During the start of the 21st Century, he acted in the drama Some Voices as a Schizophrenic man, in the dark comedy Hotel Splendide, played the character Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider based on a video game, in Layer Cake as a cocaine supplier and so on.

It was in 2005, that Eon Productions contacted him to portray James Bond. At first, he was hesitant to take up the role. When he accepted the role, there was much controversy over his casting as they couldn’t accept him as James Bond as he is 5.10 feet with Blonde hair, while Bond is tall with dark hair. People showed their dissatisfaction and threatened they would boycott the movie. However, he got support from the actors who previously played as Bond-Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton, Sean Connery, and Roger Moore saying his cast was a good decision.

The first Bond movie with Craig as lead is Casino Royale which was released in November 2006. Despite the controversy of casting him, it became the highest-grossing bond film at the time with a total of over $500 million worldwide. He then continued to star in four more Bond movies-Quantum of Solace(2008), Skyfall(2012), Spectre(2015), and No Time to Die(2020). All four movies earned a combined gross of $3.5 billion globally.

Personal Life

Craig married the actress Fiona Loudon in 1992. They divorced in 1994. They have a daughter. He then had a 7-year relationship with the German actress Heike Makatsch. Later he dated and was engaged to Satsuki Mitchell, a film producer until 2010.

He began dating Rachel Weisz with whom he has been working since Les Grandes Horizontales (1994) in 2010 and was married in 2011 in New York City. They have a daughter born in 2018.

Daniel Craig Car Collection

There is no doubt that Daniel Craig owns some of the coolest cars in the world and has access to them. The contract with Aston Martin and James Bond is well known. Even though we don’t know the full list of cars owned by Mr. Bond, we will list some of the few which we know. It is also worth noting that even though he owns many rare expensive cars, he would not want to flash those online unlike other celebrities. Some of the awesome cars owned by Daniel are:

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