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Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley is an English actress. She is best known for her breakthrough role as "Rey" in the 2015 film, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015). Daisy was born in Westminster, London, on April 10, 1992. She is the daughter of Louise Fawkner-Corbett and Chris Ridley. Her great-uncle was Arnold Ridley, an English actor, playwright, and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), who was best known for his authorship of the play, "The Ghost Train", and his role as "Private Godfrey" in the British sitcom, Dad's Army (1968). Daisy attended the Tring Park School for Performing Arts, located in Hertfordshire, England, where she trained in musical theater and graduated in 2010, at the age of 18. Aside from acting, her talent repertoire includes ballet, jazz dancing, Latin American, and tap. Her vocal range is mezzo-soprano, where she is notably skilled in jazz and cabaret singing. Upon graduation, Daisy was hired in a number of roles in television, film, and music. She was cast to play "Jessie" in the British comedy-drama, Youngers (2013). In 2013, she played "Fran Bedingfield" in the BBC series, Casualty (1986), and as "Charlotte" in the British comedy, Toast of London (2012). In 2014, she played opposite to Jeremy Piven as "Roxy Starlet" in the second season of the ITV series, Mr Selfridge (2013), and as "Hannah Kennedy" in two episodes of the BBC crime drama, Silent Witness (1996). She further had roles in short films, including Scrawl, 100% Beef, and Crossed Wires. She was featured in Blue Season, which was entered into the Sci-Fi-London 48-Hour Film Challenge, and Lifesaver, which was nominated for a BAFTA Award. She also appeared in Wiley's British rap music video, Lights On. In April 2014, it was announced that Daisy was cast to play the heroine main protagonist, Rey, in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first film in the new trilogy of the Star Wars franchise. Since its release in December 2015, the J.J. Abrams directed movie has received critical acclaim and became the fastest movie, ever, to reach $1 billion at the box office, worldwide. In August 2015, it was announced that she would play the lead role of Taeko in the English dub of the 1991 animated film, Only Yesterday, which was released in 2016. In December 2017, Daisy reprised her role as Rey in the eighth Star Wars film, The Last Jedi, as well as the Star Wars TV show, Forces of Destiny. Ridley then played Mary Debenham in the Murder on the Orient Express. She also starred in the titular role in Ophelia, alongside Naomi Watts and Clive Owen, which was filmed in 2017 and debuted at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. In February 2018, Daisy voiced Cottontail in the film adaptation of Beatrix Potter's children story. In 2019, Ridley co-stars with Tom Holland in the movie, Chaos Walking, playing Viola Eade in the film adaptation of the novel done by Patrick Ness, which is currently in post-production and set for release in 2020. Daisy further reprised her role as Rey in Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, which started filming in 2018 and wrapped up in early 2019. The movie was released in December 2019 and is Ridley's final cinematic role as Rey in the franchise. Daisy is currently connected to future projects, including Christy Hall's Daddio. She will star in The Lost Wife, which is based on the novel by Alyson Richman. She is reportedly also teaming up J.J. Abrams in a couple projects, including the remake of 2003's Israeli TV movie, Kolma, and the film adaptation of Sonia Purnell's, A Woman of No Importance.- Actress
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Rebecca Night broke onto the scene leading Andrew Davies' BBC hit show "Fanny Hill" - directed by James Hawes (Slow Horses) alongside Alison Steadman and Samantha Bond.
She and her husband actor Harry Hadden-Paton and their children split their time between New York & London.
With great range of roles across theatre, film & tv she recently co-starred in the two-hander Pulitzer-Prize- winning play "Night, Mother" alongside acting royalty Stockard Channing. As described by lead theatre critic Mark Shenton: "Night is like a young Julia Roberts... with natural stage chops... It turns out to be a riveting, revealing evening.".
Film work includes Oscar-nominee Mike Figgis' 'Suspension of Disbelief' and other television includes Catherine Linton in ITV's 'Wuthering Heights', (Tom Hardy, Tom Payne, Sarah Lancashire and Andrew Lincoln), Yvonne Moncin in 'Maigret' (Rowan Atkinson and Fiona Shaw) and a regular starring role in Sky's 'Starlings' (Lesley Sharp, Unwell Roach & Brendan Coyle) and Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman' (Tom Sturridge).
Lead of Bella Manningham opposite James Purefoy and Cathy Tyson in the BBC's audio and podcast drama re-make of 'Gaslight"
Theatre roles include Frances in David Hares's 'Racing Demon' (Paapa Essiedu, David Haig, dir. Jonathan Church), Queen Elizabeth in Oscar-winner David Seidler's North American Premiere of The King's Speech alongside Tony-nominee Harry Hadden-Paton and James Frain at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Cecily Cardew in Peter Gill's The Importance of Being Earnest in London's West End (Daisy Haggard, Dame Penelope Keith), Eugenie in Sir Richard Eyre's production of 'A Flea in Her Ear' at the Old Vic Theatre and Rose of Sharon in Chichester Festival Theatre's production of 'Grapes of Wrath' (dir. Jonathan Church).
She created the role of Jack Cardiff's carer Lucy alongside Tony-winner Robert Lindsay in Tony-winner Terry Johnson's "Prism". Within the play she transforms into both Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall.
At the Roundabout Theater's Gala Night of "The Importance of Being Earnest" on 42nd St, Broadway, NYC she reprised her role of Cecily Cardew alongside the legendary Dame Angela Lansbury, Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Jayne Houdyshell, John Glover, Simon Jones, Daniel Davis and Thom Rhoads. Drama-Desk-winner Michael Wilson directed.
Trained at Rose Bruford College (alumni Gary Oldman) where she played Charity in 'Sweet Charity' and National Youth Theatre where she starred in 'Master and Margarita' alongside Matt Smith, Daniel Ings, Tom Allen, Ben Aldridge, Shane Zaza, Reece Ritchie, Charlie Covell & Harry Melling.
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Emily Beecham was born on 12 May 1984 in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Daphne (2017), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and The Pursuit of Love (2021).- Actress
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Alison Pill was most recently seen in HELLO TOMORROW! for Apple TV+. She previously starred in the CBS All Access series, STAR TREK: PICARD, Alex Garland's FX miniseries, DEVS, and the Amazon series, THEM. Pill's other television work includes Ryan Murphy's AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT, the ABC drama THE FAMILY, the acclaimed Aaron Sorkin HBO series THE NEWSROOM, the HBO drama IN TREATMENT, THE BOOK OF DANIEL, and LIFE WITH JUDY GARLAND: ME AND MY SHADOWS.
Alison's film credits include ALL MY PUNY SORROWS, which premiered at TIFF in 2021 and the Oscar nominated biopic, VICE, written and directed by Adam McKay, opposite Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Steve Carrell. Pill's other film credits include MISS SLOANE, HAIL CAESAR!, SNOWPIERCER, GOON, SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD, MILK, DAN IN REAL LIFE, DEAR WENDY, and PIECES OF APRIL. Next up for Alison is Michael Shannon's ERIC LARUE.
Alison starred on Broadway in the Tony nominated production of THREE TALL WOMEN, written by Edward Albee, directed by Joe Mantello, and opposite Glenda Jackson and Laurie Metcalf. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE and for a Lucille Lortel Award for ON THE MOUNTAIN. She won The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble in the U.S. premiere of THE DISTANCE FROM HERE.- Actor
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Daniel Sharman was born in London. He began working as an actor at The Royal Shakespeare Company before going on to train for three years at The London Academy of Dramatic Art in 2007. After which he performed in many theatrical productions in London and Europe. He lives in Los Angeles and London.