Daisy Edgar-Jones

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daisy Edgar-Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Twisters

as Kate

Where the Crawdads Sing

as Kya Clark

Fresh

as Noa

Normal People

as Marianne Sheridan

War of the Worlds

as Emily Gresham

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self

Under the Banner of Heaven

as Brenda Lafferty

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

Gentleman Jack

as Delia Rawson

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest