Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley was working in a pub when she was forged as Rey in Star Wars: The Power Awakens, having beforehand solely appeared in a small variety of brief movies and the 2015 horror-thriller Scrawl.
Round her subsequent Star Wars duties for the stays of the sequel trilogy – which she reprises for a but untitled upcoming Star Wars movie – Ridley swapped her lightsaber for assorted big-screen tales of murder (Kenneth Branagh’s first Poirot outing Homicide on the Orient Specific, a tackle Hamlet from the standpoint of Ophelia) and rabbits (voicing Cottontail within the massively profitable Peter Rabbit cartoon reverse James Cordon).
She additionally appeared in Chaos Strolling, reverse Tom Holland, The Marsh King’s Daughter, and has achieved voiceover duties for Twelve Minutes, with James McAvoy and Willem Dafoe, and The Inventor, with Stephen Fry and Marion Cotillard.
Ridley gained appreciable popularity of 2023 movie Generally I Suppose About Dying, a romcom she additionally produced, and for Younger Girl and the Sea, out earlier this 12 months, wherein she performs aggressive swimmer Gerturde Ederle, who grew to become the primary lady to ever swim throughout the English Channel, in 1926.
She’s at present starring in Magpie, a recent noir thriller scripted by her husband, Tom Bateman, set towards the perils of the film trade.
What would you ask Ridley, who has been frank and brave talking about her battles with each sexist fanboys and her personal well being struggles? Please get your questions in by midday on Tuesday 19 November and we’ll print her solutions later that week.
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