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Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor. After training at the National Youth Theatre and graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1991, Craig began his career on stage. He made his film debut in the drama The Power of One (1992) and attracted attention with appearances in the historical television war drama Sharpe's Eagle (1993), the family film A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995), the television serial drama Our Friends in the North (1996), the biographical film Elizabeth (1998), the television film Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998), the indie war film The Trench (1999), the drama film Some Voices (2000), the action film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), the crime thriller film Road to Perdition (2002), the crime thriller film Layer Cake (2004), and the historical drama film Munich (2005).
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Game of Thrones star Kit Harington’s unlikely connection to James Bond as he uncovers family’s spy history

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KIT HARINGTON is supposed to be the star of his family — but it turns out his grandad was a superspy who was probably the inspiration for James Bond.

The Game of Thrones hunk delves into the history of his relative, MI5 and MI6 agent John Harington, for a new series of My Grandparents’ War, which starts tonight on Channel 4 at 9pm.

And Kit jokes that he wishes his tall, handsome ancestor had passed on some of his physical traits so he could play 007 after Daniel Craig's departure.

Kit says of his grandparents: “What’s been fascinating is seeing glimpses of me in them. We’re all a big melting point of our four grandparents. “But as an actor with a tantalising vacancy in the film world, there’s one thing they didn’t give me — if they’d have just passed me a few more of the tall genes, I might have been up for Bond. “Everything’s there, they gave me everything, they equipped me with everything — but they made me 5ft 7ins, which is about two or three inches too short to be James Bond.” Read More on Celebrity NOT A FAN Celeb Cooking School fans have A LOT of complaints as they 'switch off'STAR POWER Cara Delevingne's transformation over the years as fears grow over behaviour Kit, who’s descended from a long line of Harington aristocrats and is related to Gunpowder Plot conspirator Robert Catesby, discovers that his grandfather served alongside Bond creator Ian Fleming.

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