1. Daisy Jessica Edgar-Jones was born on 24 May 1998 and is an English actress.
17 Facts About Daisy Edgar-Jones
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Daisy Edgar-Jones began her career with the television series Cold Feet and War of the Worlds.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones has expanded her career taking film roles in the horror-thriller Fresh, the mystery Where the Crawdads Sing, the disaster film Twisters, and the romantic melodrama On Swift Horses, the later of which she executive produced.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones appeared on British Vogue's 2020 list of influential women.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones's Irish mother Wendy is a former drama film editor who now works in real estate.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones grew up in Muswell Hill, London, and first acted in a school play in Year 2.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones attended The Mount School for Girls and Woodhouse College and was admitted to the National Youth Theatre.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones was in the National Youth Theatre production of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones had a recurring role as Delia Rawson in 2019 BBC and HBO series Gentleman Jack.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones played Emily Gresham for the first two seasons of War of the Worlds opposite Gabriel Byrne and Elizabeth McGovern.
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In May 2019, it was announced that Daisy Edgar-Jones had been cast in the main role of Marianne alongside Paul Mescal as Connell in the Hulu and BBC Three series Normal People, an adaptation of the novel by Sally Rooney.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones's performance was highlighted by critics, with Lucy Mangan of The Guardian writing, "Edgar-Jones captures all of Marianne's intensity and acumen, her brittleness and damage".
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Daisy Edgar-Jones starred in the February 2020 revival of Albion at the Almeida Theatre, which was recorded and later broadcast by the BBC that August.
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Also in 2022, Daisy Edgar-Jones had the starring role in the film adaptation of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones had her first big-budget film release with a starring role in the disaster film Twisters opposite Glen Powell, a standalone sequel to the 1996 film Twister.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones was part of the rotating cast of White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour at Soho Place on the West End.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones starred in the period romantic melodrama On Swift Horses opposite Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, and Sasha Calle.