Daisy Ridley is a British actress who is best known on the international stage for Rey in director JJ Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and its sequel Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017).
The Open University student who is in 2016, he was promoted to Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences. Read on to learn more about her personal life, body measurements, and achievements.
Biography (Age)
Daisy Ridley was born Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley, the youngest of three daughters of Louise Caroline Fawkner-Corbett and Christopher Ridley on April 10, 1992 in Westminster, London. Her father is a photographer while her mother worked as a banker. Her great-uncle is Arnold Ridley, a well-known English playwright and actor.
With her family having longstanding ties to the family, Ridley received a scholarship to attend Hertfordshire’s Tring Park School of Performing Arts at the age of 9. It was also said that her family enrolled her in school so that she could channel all of the energy that had led her to struggle in elementary school in the right direction.
At arts education school Daisy Ridley, after forming a close friendship with her acting teacher, developed a deeper interest in acting. She also took classes to improve her skills as a jazz and cabaret singer. After graduating, Ridley enrolled at Birbeck University of London to study classical civilization. However, she dropped out of school to pursue an acting career.
Ridley continued to audition as a bartender in a number of London pubs. In 2012, she was hired to work on an animated horror thriller titled Scrawl, which was later released in 2015. Silent Witness and Casualty among others.
The following year after hearing this director JJ Abrams was looking for fresh faces for the new Star Wars film. Ridley made sure he attended the auditions and was ready for any part available. She attended about five auditions before receiving a call from Abrams telling her she’d landed the lead role.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released on December 18, 2015 to critical and commercial success. Ridley was lauded for her performance as the film grossed nearly $530 million worldwide in its opening weekend before becoming the highest-grossing film of 2015 with grossing over $2 billion.
She went on to do other projects such as ‘The EagleHuntress’ (2016), a documentary she narrated and produced, and then the film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (2017) before landing her role in the Sequel to the previous Star Wars film Star Wars Repeated: The Last Jedi (2017).
Other projects she has worked on or will be working on include Ophelia (2018), the animated comedy Peter Rabbit (2018), Daddio (2018) and Chaos Walking (2019).
sister
Daisy Ridley has two sisters; Kika-Rose Ridley and Poppy Sophia Ridley. The older of the siblings, Poppy Sophia, was born on March 1, 1987. She majored in physical education in college before pursuing a career in music. Poppy Sophia is currently engaged to Australian Mark Semmens with whom she lives Down Under.
The second sister, Kika-Rose, who was born in 1989, is a model who has appeared in a number of magazines. At the age of 14 she started modeling and was able to make a career out of it.
Daisy Ridley Dating, Boyfriend
Daisy Ridley is actively dating, and no, it’s not her Star Wars co-star John Boyega. Despite numerous rumors linking the pair, Ridley and Boyega are just close friends. However, she is dating Tom Bateman, who was one of her co-stars in Murder on the Orient Express.
The duo hit it off while filming the AgathaChristie classic novel and began seeing each other soon after. They kept their relationship a secret, although this was falsely revealed by a producer.
Height, body measurements and other facts
Birth name: Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley
Date of Birth: April 10, 1992
Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England
Cast: actress
Height: 1.7m
Body measurements: 82-61-86 cm (32-24-34 inches)
Dress size: 4 US
Shoe size: 9.5 US (8 UK)
Eye color: Hazel
Hair Color: Brown
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