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Daisy Edgar-Jones
Edgar-Jones in 2024
Born
Daisy Jessica Edgar-Jones

(1998-05-24) 24 May 1998 (age 26)
London, England
Alma materOpen University
OccupationActress
Years active2015–present

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), the latter of which she also executive produced.[1] 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 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.[2]

Early life and education

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Edgar-Jones[3][4] was born on 24 May 1998[5] in the borough of Islington, London. Her 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.[6]

Edgar-Jones grew up in Muswell Hill, London, and first acted in a school play in Year 2.[7] She attended The Mount School for Girls and Woodhouse College[8] and was admitted to the National Youth Theatre.[9] She studied with the Open University.[10]

Career

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Edgar-Jones in 2021

After appearing in the 2016 Outnumbered Christmas Special on BBC One, at 17, Edgar-Jones was cast as Olivia Marsden in ITV's comedy drama Cold Feet alongside James Nesbitt.[11] In 2018, she appeared as Jessica Timpson in Silent Witness,[12] and in independent coming-of-age feature film Pond Life, directed by Bill Buckhurst.[13][14] She was in the National Youth Theatre production of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.[15] Edgar-Jones had a recurring role as Delia Rawson in 2019 BBC and HBO series Gentleman Jack. She played Emily Gresham for the first two seasons of War of the Worlds opposite Gabriel Byrne and Elizabeth McGovern.[16]

In May 2019, it was announced that Edgar-Jones had been cast in the main role of Marianne alongside Paul Mescal as Connell in the Hulu and BBC Three series Normal People, an adaptation of the 2018 novel of the same name by Sally Rooney.[17][18] Her performance was highlighted by critics, with Lucy Mangan of The Guardian writing, "Edgar-Jones captures all of Marianne’s intensity and acumen, her brittleness and damage".[19] Jen Chaney of Vulture praised her chemistry with Mescal, writing, "Edgar-Jones and Mescal are called upon to delve into deeper wellsprings of trauma and both do so credibly, without succumbing to the temptation to oversell the drama".[20] For her performance she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, and Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Limited Series.[21][22][23] Edgar-Jones starred in the February 2020 revival of Albion at the Almeida Theatre,[24] which was recorded and later broadcast by the BBC that August.[25]

In her first post-Normal People project, she starred opposite Sebastian Stan in the thriller dark-comedy film Fresh, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.[26] Natalia Winkleman of IndieWire wrote "Jones is an absorbing screen presence, taking a role that could’ve been played as dopey...inject[s] it with a quiet psychological intensity".[27] Also in 2022, Edgar-Jones had the starring role in the film adaptation of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.[28][29] That same year she also starred alongside Andrew Garfield in Dustin Lance Black's FX on Hulu true crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven, an adaptation of Jon Krakauer's book of the same name.[30] She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.[31]

In 2024, Edgar-Jones had her first big-budget film release with a starring role in the disaster film Twisters opposite Glen Powell, a standalone sequel to the 1996 film Twister.[1] Jordan Hoffman of Entertainment Weekly praised the rapport and magnetism of it's two leads Jones and Powell writing, "[They] do more than sell it; they make it compelling".[32] That same year, she also starred in the period romantic drama On Swift Horses opposite Will Poulter, Sasha Calle and Jacob Elordi. Jourdain Searles of The Hollywood Reporter described her role as "her meatiest role since Normal People" adding that she "gives an understated performance as Muriel, letting us get to know her through subtle gestures and expressions".[33]

In 2024 she also returned to the stage, which included being part of the rotating cast of White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour at Soho Place on the West End.[34][35] Later that year, she also acted opposite Kingsley Ben-Adir in the West End revival of the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof directed by Rebecca Frecknall at the Almeida Theater. Andrzej Lukowski of Time Out praised her performance declaring her "truly phenomenal" adding, "she is so, so good, inhabiting Maggie with a burning, vivacious swagger, alternatively self-mocking, self-pitying, compassionate and vicious".[36] In her mixed review, Arifa Akbar of The Guardian wrote, that "she is a convincingly catlike Maggie, but she is not a pleading seductress".[37]

Filmography

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Key
† Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2018 Pond Life Cassie
2022 Fresh Noa
Where the Crawdads Sing Catherine "Kya" Clark
2024 Twisters Kate Carter
On Swift Horses Muriel Also executive producer[38][39]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2016–2020 Cold Feet Olivia Marsden Recurring role
2016 Outnumbered Kate Television special
2017 Silent Witness Jessica Thompson Two episodes
2019 Gentleman Jack Delia Rawson Two episodes
2019–2021 War of the Worlds Emily Gresham Main cast
2020 Normal People Marianne Sheridan Main cast
2022 Under the Banner of Heaven Brenda Wright Lafferty Main cast

Theatre

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Year Title Role Venue(s)
2017 The Reluctant Fundamentalist April Yard Theatre, London, England
2020 Albion Zara Almeida Theatre, London, England
2024 White Rabbit Red Rabbit One night only @sohoplace, London
2024 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Maggie Almeida Theatre, London, England

Awards and nominations

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Year Association Category Project Result Ref
2021 Golden Globe Awards Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Normal People Nominated [40]
Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries Nominated [41][42]
AACTA International Awards Best Actress in a Series Nominated [43]
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards Best Actress Nominated [44]
RTS Programme Awards Actor (Female) Nominated [45]
British Academy Television Awards Best Actress Nominated [46]
2022 Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Awards Best Actress Fresh Nominated [47]
Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards Best Actress in a Streaming Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Nominated [48]
Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Under the Banner of Heaven Nominated [48]
75th Locarno Film Festival Leopard Club Award — Won [49]
2023 Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actress - Television Limited Series/Motion Picture Under the Banner of Heaven Nominated [50]

References

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