Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley is an English actress. She rose to international prominence through playing the lead role of Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker. She has also featured as the title character of the romantic drama Ophelia, appeared in the mystery film Murder on the Orient Express and lent her voice to the animated Peter Rabbit.
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Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley is an English actress. She rose to international prominence through playing the lead role of Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker. She has also featured as the title character of the romantic drama Ophelia, appeared in the mystery film Murder on the Orient Express, and lent her voice to the animated Peter Rabbit. She is the youngest of three daughters born to Louise Fawkner-Corbett, a banker, and Christopher Ridley, a photographer. She was born on 10 April 1992 in Westminster, London, and grew up in Maida Vale. In 2016 Ridley began studying for a Bachelor of Arts in social science through online courses with the Open University. Her great-uncle was Dad’s Army actor and playwright Arnold Ridley; his brother, Daisy’s grandfather, John Harry Dunn Ridley, OBE, was head of the Engineering Secretariat at the BBC from 1950 to 1965.
While growing up, her favourite film was Matilda, an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s story, with the title characters a role model to her. Ridley began her career with minor roles in the television programmes Youngers, Toast of London, Silent Witness, Mr Selfridge, and Casualty. In April 2014, the casting of Ridley as Rey, one of the lead characters in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, was announced. She was cast for the film in February 2014. At the time of her casting she was, according to Rolling Stone, a \”total unknown. \” Her choice by director J. J. Abrams was seen as a repeat of George Lucas’ move of casting relatively unknown actors for the lead roles in first Star Wars film in 1977.
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