Feisty Female Friday: Daisy Ridley

The FFF this week is Daisy Ridley. 

Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley is an English actress, best known for her breakthrough role as Rey in the film, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens. Daisy was born in London and attended the Tring Park School for Performing Arts, where she trained in musical theater, dance, and jazz and cabaret singing. After graduation, she had acting roles in television, appearing in Youngers, Casualty, and Toast of London, in the short films, Scrawl, 100% Beef, Crossed Wires, and in Wiley's British rap music video, Lights On.

She also played the breakthrough heroine role, as Rey, in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first film in the new trilogy of the Star Wars franchise. Daisy also appeared in the Last Jedi, Forces of Destiny, and Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. Her feeling of stepping onto a real set for the first time, she says, was a baptism of fire because of the extreme heat and of seeing fellow characters walking around and speeders chilling in the sand.

Daisy will also star in the movies Murder on the Orient Express, Ophelia, the voice of Cottontail in the film adaptation of Beatrix Potter's children story, Chaos Walking, Daddio, The Lost Wife, Kolma, and A Woman of No Importance.

She has been involved in charity work through her participation in "Star Wars: Force for Change," and avidly supports UNICEF, American Red Cross, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and Make-A-Wish.