Daisy Edgar-Jones
English actress who rose to international prominence with her acclaimed performance in the BBC/Hulu drama Normal People (2020).
Daisy Edgar-Jones - Personal Information
- Name: Daisy Edgar-Jones
- Date of Birth: May 24, 1998
- Place of Birth: Islington, London, England, UK
- Gender: Female
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Producer, Executive Producer
Biography
Daisy Jessica Edgar-Jones (born 24 May 1998) is an English actress. She began her career with the 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. 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.
Selected Filmography
A selection of Daisy Edgar-Jones's most notable screen appearances across film and television.
- Sense and Sensibility (2026) as Elinor Dashwood
- On Swift Horses (2025) as Muriel
- Twisters (2024) as Kate
- Hot Ones Versus (TV - 2024) as Self
- On the Go with Gabe (TV - 2024) as Self
- Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) as Kya Clark
- Under the Banner of Heaven (TV - 2022) as Brenda Lafferty
- Fresh (2022) as Noa
- Albion (2020) as Zara
- Normal People (TV - 2020) as Marianne Sheridan
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