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Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley born 10 April 1992 is an English actress. She became famous for her role as Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
She appeared in the mystery film Murder on the Orient Express (2017), played the title character in the romantic drama Ophelia (2018), and had voice roles in the animated film Peter Rabbit (2018) and the video game Twelve Minutes (2021). Ridley had leading roles in the science-fiction film Chaos Walking (2021), the independent drama Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023), and the psychological thriller The Marsh King's Daughter (2023). She also portrayed Gertrude Ederle in the biographical drama Young Woman and the Sea (2024).
Early life
Ridley was born on 10 April 1992 in the London Borough of Westminster and grew up in Maida Vale. She is the youngest of three daughters of Christopher Ridley, a photographer, and Louise who works in internal communications at a bank. She has two older sisters, Kika Rose and Poppy Sophia, as well as two older half-sisters. Her mother's family, the Faulkner-Corbetts, were landowners with a military and medical background. Her paternal great-grandfather, Arnold Ridley, also served in the military. He separately pursued careers as a playwright and actor (and is best remembered for playing Private Godfrey in the sitcom Dad's Army). Arnold Ridley's brother, Daisy's grandfather, John Harry Dunn Ridley, OBE, was Head of the Engineering Secretariat at the BBC from 1950 to 1965.
Ridley won a scholarship to Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire, which she attended from the age of nine to eighteen. She then studied classical civilisation at Birkbeck, University of London, before dropping out to focus on her acting career. Before being cast in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Ridley worked for approximately two years as a bartender at two different London pubs. In 2016, she began studying a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences through online courses with the Open University.
Personal life
Ridley lives in Primrose Hill, London. Since 2017, she has been in a relationship with actor Tom Bateman, whom she met on the set of Murder on the Orient Express. In January 2023, during the Sundance Film Festival, Ridley confirmed that she and Bateman had married.
In 2016, Ridley revealed that she was diagnosed with endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome at the age of fifteen, for which she underwent several laparoscopic surgery procedures. She says her condition made her feel low in self-confidence due to acne. In 2023, Ridley was diagnosed with Graves' disease, which caused her to have a rapid heart rate, weight loss, and fatigue, among other symptoms.
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