While we pretty much always knew that Star Wars: The Force Awakens would bring back the likes of Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, we’re more fascinated by the names that caught us off guard when the cast was first announced. John Boyega turned heads in the suburban sci-fi thriller Attack the Block. Girls co-star Adam Driver will reunite with his Inside Llewyn Davis cohort Oscar Isaac for a mission in a galaxy far, far away. And Max von Sydow’s presence in the celebrated cast photo was the most welcome bombshell we could hope to receive. There is one actor in the ensemble, however, who we really don’t know much about.
Who is Daisy Ridley? She was occupying a couch with Harrison Ford at the Star Wars: The Force Awakens table read, but what did she appear in before landing this coveted gig? Who is she playing in the film? What’s her future with the legendary science-fiction franchise? We answer all of those questions and more in the following guide!
Her Background
Born in Westminster, London in April of 1992, Daisy Ridley actually came into this world with acting in her blood. Her great-uncle was William Arnold Ridley – a playwright and performer who most notably scripted the play The Ghost Train and starred on the long-running BBC sitcom Dad’s Army. Not much is public about her upbringing, though she attended the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire, and graduated from the program in 2010. It was only a few years later that she started getting professional acting gigs.
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