Daisy Edgar-Jones
British actress (born 1998)
Daisy Jessica Edgar-Jones (born 24 May 1998) is an English actress. She began her career with the television series Cold Feet (2016–2020) and War of the Worlds (2019–2021). She gained recognition for her starring role in the BBC / Hulu romantic drama limited series Normal People (2020), which earned her nominations for a British Academy Television Award and a Golden Globe Award.
She has expanded her career taking film roles in the horror-thriller Fresh (2022), the mystery Where the Crawdads Sing (2022), the disaster film Twisters (2024), and the romantic drama On Swift Horses (2024). On television, she played a Mormon murder victim in the FX on Hulu crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven earning a second Golden Globe Award nomination.
On stage, she has acted on the West End stage in plays such as the adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2017), and a revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2024). She appeared on British Vogue's 2020 list of influential women.
Early life and education
Edgar-Jones was born on 24 May 1998 in the borough of Islington, London. Her Northern Irish mother, Wendy, is a former drama film editor who now works in real estate. Her Scottish father, Philip, is director of Sky Arts and head of entertainment at Sky.
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