Daisy Ridley

A Lon­don native, Daisy Rid­ley stud­ied act­ing from a young age at the Tring Park School for the Per­form­ing Arts. She stud­ied civ­i­liza­tion at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don before devot­ing her­self to act­ing full-time. After appear­ing in sev­er­al short films and TV series, she became the new face of the “Star Wars” fran­chise and gained glob­al recog­ni­tion for play­ing Rey, the main char­ac­ter of the new tril­o­gy launched in 2015 with J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awak­ens. She reprised the role in two sub­se­quent vol­umes, Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi (2017) and J.J. Abrams’ The Rise of Sky­walk­er (2019). 

Daisy Rid­ley has also act­ed in many oth­er fea­ture films includ­ing Ken­neth Branagh’s Mur­der on the Ori­ent Express (2017) and Claire McCarthy’s Ophe­lia (2018), in which she played the title role along­side Nao­mi Watts. In 2018, she lent her voice to one of the char­ac­ters in Peter Rab­bit, a hybrid ani­ma­tion/live-action adap­ta­tion of the adven­tures by Eng­lish author Beat­rix Pot­ter. The actress recent­ly appeared in two films: The Marsh King’s Daugh­ter, direct­ed by Neil Burg­er and released on Prime Video, and Rachel Lambert’s Some­times I Think About Dying, pre­sent­ed at the 2023 Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val and released in French cin­e­mas this year. She also played the lead role in Young Woman and the Sea, a nar­ra­tive fea­ture film inspired by the first woman to swim the Eng­lish Chan­nel in 1926, released in July on Disney+.

On the heels of Sam Yates’ British film Mag­pie, based on a sto­ry devel­oped by Daisy Rid­ley and pre­sent­ed at the South by South­west Film Fes­ti­val last March, the actress will next appear in Zak Hilditch’s sur­vival film We Bury the Dead, Mar­tin Campbell’s new action­er Clean­er, and Jane Anderson’s his­tor­i­cal dra­ma Women in the Cas­tle, fea­tur­ing Kirsten Scott Thomas and Nina Hoss. The actress will revis­it her role as Rey for a new chap­ter in the “Star Wars” uni­verse saga set to be released in 2026.