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.
Craig has English, as well as Irish, Scottish and Welsh, ancestry. His mother, Carol Olivia (Williams), was an art teacher. 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. He was born Daniel Wroughton Craig on March 2, 1968, at 41 Liverpool Road, Chester, Cheshire, England. 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).
