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Daisy Ridley

English actress · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Born 1992 · age 34

She auditioned for a scavenger in a desert and walked out as the inheritor of the lightsaber - Rey in three Star Wars sequels that turned a London actor in her early twenties into one of the most scrutinized faces in franchise cinema.

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2026We Were ThereSeries, Narrator (voice)EbenezerFilm, 2026Emily Cratchit2025CleanerFilm, Joey Locke2024MagpieFilm, Producer2023The InventorFilm, Princess Marguerite (voice)2022The BubbleFilm, Kate2021Baba YagaFilm, Magda (voice)2019OpheliaFilm, Ophelia2018Empire Award for Best ActressAwardThe Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To CancerSeries, 2018Balance of the ForceFilm, 20182017Star Wars: Forces of DestinySeries, Rey (voice)Murder on the Orient ExpressFilm, 2017Miss Mary Debenham2016Empire Award for Best Female NewcomerAwardMTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough PerformanceAwardTeen Choice AwardsAwardSecrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic JourneyFilm, 20162015ScrawlFilm, Hannah2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSeriesUnderFilm, 2014Waitress2013100% BeefFilm, Girl2010ConanSeries2009RuPaul's Drag RaceSeries2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Series1996Silent WitnessSeries, Hannah Kennedy1992Born10 April 1992

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  • Young Woman and the Sea 2024
  • The Skywalker Legacy 2020
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015
  • Ophelia 2019
  • The Eagle Huntress 2016

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Filmography 40

70 credits on file

Television 19

Media & music

Awards

Empire Award for Best Actress2018
Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer2016
MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance2016
Teen Choice Awards2016

About this person

Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley was born 10 April 1992 in England. Between 2015 and 2019 she played Rey across the Star Wars sequel trilogy, a role that redefined her career overnight. She moved into ensemble work with Murder on the Orient Express in 2017, then took the title role in Ophelia in 2018 - a romantic drama that flipped the Hamlet story. Voice work followed: Peter Rabbit in 2018, the video game Twelve Minutes in 2021. She led the science-fiction film Chaos Walking in 2021, the independent drama Sometimes I Think About Dying in 2023, and the psychological thriller The Marsh King's Daughter the same year. In 2024 she played Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, in Young Woman and the Sea.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
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Dates
Born 1992 · age 34

In the same film or series as Daisy

Aisling BeaAlso in Nevatars (2026)Stephen GrahamAlso in Young Woman and the Sea (2024)Mads MikkelsenAlso in Chaos Walking (2021)Willem DafoeAlso in Murder on the Orient Express (2017)Elizabeth DebickiAlso in Flopsy Turvy (2018)Sam ClaflinAlso in Ebenezer (2026)