Since her acting debut in 2016, Daisy Edgar-Jones has had an increasingly successful career in movies and TV shows. Since her debut, Edgar-Jones has appeared in at least one project every year. In 2024, the 26-year-old leads her first big-budget feature film.
Daisy Edgar-Jones stars alongside Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos in the $200 million budget Lee Isaac Chung’s standalone sequel Twisters. The 2024 Twisters is Daisy Edgar-Jones’ fourth feature film. Here are other Daisy Edgar-Jones movies and TV shows where you probably recognize her.
Cold Feet
British television audiences may remember Daisy Edgar-Jones from ITV’s comedy-drama series Cold Feet. Edgar-Jones joined the series in season 7 in a recurring role as Olivia Marsden. Although the character was born in season 3, Edgar-Jones first appears in the show as one of the Marsden twin daughters. One of her highlights on the show was her pregnancy and abortion. Edgar-Jones appeared as a recurring character until the show’s final season.
War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds science fiction series was based on H. G. Wells’ 1890s novel The War of the Worlds. The series was the third TV adaptation of the novel and cast Daisy Edgar-Jones in the lead role portraying Emily Gresham. The show aired for 3 seasons from October 28, 2019, to September 26, 2022. However, Edgar-Jones appeared in 17 of the show’s 24 episodes.
Normal People
A year after War of the Worlds premiered, Daisy Edgar-Jones starred in the main role of the romantic psychological drama miniseries Normal People. Edgar-Jones starred as Marianne Sheridan, a character that became her international breakthrough role. Her character is Paul Mescal’s character (Connell Waldron) romantic interest. Normal People centered around Marianne and Connell’s romantic relationship from their final days in High School to navigating life as undergraduates in college.
Edgar-Jones’ character is a smart, outspoken Lady from a wealthy family. On the other hand, Mescal’s character is the son of the Sheridan family’s cleaner. However, he’s academically gifted and an athlete. The miniseries follows their views of life and the dynamics of being romantically involved with someone from a different social class. Normal People was critically acclaimed, praising Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal’s performance and chemistry.
Fresh
Although Daisy Edgar-Jones had her film debut in 2018 with Pond Life, her successes had been on television until 2022. Fresh was Edgar-Jones’ second feature film of her career. The movie, which was director Mimi Cave’s feature directorial debut, was a horror thriller. Edgar-Jones led the cast as Noa, alongside Sebastian Stan, who played Steve/Brendan. With Edgar-Jones playing the protagonist in Fresh, it is one of the actress’s most recognizable movies.
Noa has been unsuccessful in finding love through online dating apps. She meets Steve at a supermarket by a stroke of luck, and they hit things off. After a few dates, Steve invites Noa on a getaway weekend break alone. Against her best friend’s wishes, Noa accepts but soon discovers Steve hides a cannibalistic secret. He seduces young women and lures them to harvest their organs and meat for his clients. Fresh follows Noa’s fight for survival and the traumatic experiences she undertakes to set herself free. The movie received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences.
Where the Crawdads Sing
In the same 2022, Daisy Edgar-Jones starred as the cast lead in Olivia Newman’s mystery drama Where the Crawdads Sing. The movie’s screenplay was adapted from Delia Owens’ 2018 novel of the same name. Edgar-Jones is cast as the youthful Catherine “Kya” Clark, with Jojo Regina and Leslie France playing the younger and older Kya, respectively.
In Where the Crawdads Sing, Edgar-Jones’ character is referred to as the “Marsh Girl” by her local townspeople. Having been abandoned by her mother, siblings, and father in a shack at age seven, she raised herself all alone. At the heart of the movie’s plot, Kya is suspected of killing her boyfriend, Chase Andrews (Harris Dickinson). As the only suspect, especially when overheard threatening to kill him after he tried to rape her, she’s tried for murder.
However, she’s acquitted and finds a new romantic interest, Tate Walker (Taylor John Smith), and lives her life. At the end of the movie, it is revealed that, as Tate goes through her things, she truly is Chase’s killer. Where the Crawdads Sing attracted mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success. It grossed $144.3 million on a $24 million production budget.
Under the Banner of Heaven
2022 was an exceptionally busy year for Daisy Edgar-Jones. Besides her starring roles in two feature films, she is also part of the cast of FX on Hulu’s true crime drama miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven. The miniseries was led by Andrew Garfield and Gil Birmingham, who played detectives. Edgar-Jones was cast as Brenda Lafferty, the wife of Billy Howle’s character, Allen Lafferty. Under the Banner of Heaven was critically acclaimed and a notable production where audiences might recognize Daisy Edgar-Jones. If you enjoyed reading about Daisy Edgar-Jones movies and TV shows, read about Hannah Dodd’s movies and TV shows.
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