Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley was born on 10 April 1992 and is an English actress.
37 Facts About Daisy Ridley
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Daisy Ridley rose to prominence for her role as Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker.
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Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley was born on 10 April 1992 in the London borough of Westminster, and grew up in Maida Vale.
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Daisy Ridley is the youngest of three daughters born to Christopher Ridley, a photographer, and Louise, who works in internal communications for a bank.
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Daisy Ridley has two older sisters, Kika Rose and Poppy Sophia, as well as two older half-sisters.
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Daisy Ridley separately forged a career as a playwright and actor.
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Daisy Ridley won a scholarship to Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire, which she attended from ages nine to eighteen.
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Daisy Ridley then studied classical civilisation at Birkbeck, University of London, before dropping out to focus on her acting career.
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Daisy Ridley began her career with minor roles in the television programmes Youngers, Toast of London, Silent Witness, Mr Selfridge, and Casualty.
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Daisy Ridley appeared in the short film Blue Season, which was entered into the Sci-Fi-London 48-Hour Film Challenge.
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Daisy Ridley played the lead in film three of Lifesaver, an interactive film which was nominated for a BAFTA Award.
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Daisy Ridley appeared in the music video for Wiley's song "Lights On", playing the character of Kim.
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Daisy Ridley made her film debut in the 2015 British independent horror film Scrawl, after her scenes from the British comedy film The Inbetweeners 2 were removed in the final cut.
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Daisy Ridley was cast for the film in February 2014.
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Daisy Ridley began filming her scenes in May 2014 at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, and prior to the film's release in December 2015, she appeared at the launch of a set of Star Wars postage stamps issued by the UK postal service Royal Mail, with her character Rey featuring on a stamp along with the droid BB-8.
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Daisy Ridley's performance received critical acclaim, with Richard Roeper describing her portrayal as "a breakout performance" and adding "[Harrison] Ford has a terrific father figure chemistry [shared] with Ridley and [John] Boyega".
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Daisy Ridley became the executive producer of the documentary The Eagle Huntress in January 2016, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 24 January 2016; she recorded narration for the film's wide release.
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Daisy Ridley was one of several actors featured on Barbra Streisand's 2016 album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway.
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In 2017, Daisy Ridley portrayed Mary Debenham in Murder on the Orient Express, an adaptation of Agatha Christie's detective novel of the same name.
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Daisy Ridley reprised her role as Rey, opposite Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which was released in December 2017.
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In January 2018, Daisy Ridley starred in the titular role in Ophelia, a reimagining of the Hamlet tale, alongside Naomi Watts and Clive Owen.
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In February 2018, Daisy Ridley voiced the role of Cottontail in Peter Rabbit, an adaptation of the children's stories of the same name by Beatrix Potter.
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In December 2019, Daisy Ridley appeared as Rey in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the last film in the sequel trilogy.
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In 2021, Daisy Ridley co-starred in the film Chaos Walking, an adaption of the young-adult novel by Patrick Ness.
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Daisy Ridley played Viola Eade, opposite Tom Holland who played Todd Hewitt.
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Daisy Ridley lent her voice to the point-and-click mystery video game Twelve Minutes, alongside James McAvoy and Willem Dafoe.
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The game received positive reviews, with Daisy Ridley's performance being praised by critics.
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Daisy Ridley made a surprise appearance in Judd Apatow's 2022 movie, The Bubble, as Kate, a horny AI.
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Daisy Ridley started filming the lead role in The Marsh King's Daughter in Ontario, Canada on 7 June 2021.
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Daisy Ridley has signed on for a sci-fi mystery thriller film called Mind Fall with Mathieu Kassovitz attached to direct, and is currently shooting a biopic for Disney+ titled Young Woman and the Sea in the role of Gertrude Ederle.
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In January 2023, during the Sundance Film Festival, Daisy Ridley confirmed that she and Bateman had married.
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In 2016, Daisy Ridley revealed she had been diagnosed with endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome at age fifteen, requiring her to undergo multiple laparoscopic surgery procedures.
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Daisy Ridley's post prompted backlash from the public, with critics accusing Ridley of hypocrisy in reference to the violence depicted in her Star Wars films.
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Daisy Ridley reiterated this statement in 2017, saying that social media is "highly unhealthy for people's mental health," including hers.
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Daisy Ridley further commented on the topic in a 2019 interview, vowing never to return to social media.
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On 4 April 2022, Daisy Ridley returned to Instagram again after six years of being off the platform.
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Daisy Ridley was welcomed back to Instagram by her Orient Express co-star Leslie Odom Jr.