---
name: "Daisy Edgar-Jones"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/daisy-edgar-jones"
fi1m_id: "daisy-edgar-jones"
imdb_id: "nm8402992"
tmdb_id: 2230991
wikidata_id: "Q73889193"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 May 1998"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-22T01:41:34.734515+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Daisy Edgar-Jones

## Identity

Daisy Edgar-Jones

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/daisy-edgar-jones
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** daisy-edgar-jones
- **IMDb ID:** nm8402992
- **TMDB ID:** 2230991
- **Wikidata ID:** Q73889193
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Edgar-Jones, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73889193, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8402992/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2230991

Actor. Born 24 May 1998 in Islington, London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 May 1998, Islington, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 1998–present
- **Also known as:** Daisy Jessica Edgar-Jones
- **Golden Globes:** 1 Golden Globe nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 74 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 74 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 3 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 1, Romance 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $384m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Edgar-Jones, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73889193, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8402992/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2230991

## Coming up

- *A Place in Hell* (2027-04-23), as Cate Fine
- *Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow* (2027-11-11), as Sadie

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Normal People*](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md) (84), [*Twisters*](https://film.one/film/twisters.md) (64)

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## Fi1m on Daisy Edgar-Jones

> Daisy Edgar-Jones acts by holding still and letting us notice what it costs. That carried twelve episodes of *Normal People*; the blockbusters since have not yet worked out what to do with an actor whose best moment is a nod.

Watch what Daisy Edgar-Jones does with a nod. In *Normal People* (2020), Connell asks Marianne to tell nobody about them, she agrees, and the two of them stand there pretending this is fine. Nobody raises a voice. Edgar-Jones lets one small movement of the head carry the whole of the damage, and the scene left us hot with embarrassment on both their behalves. That is her method in one gesture: hold still, give away as little as possible, and let the audience do the work of noticing what it cost.

She had been working since she was 17, with a regular part in *Cold Feet* (2016–2020) and a run in *War of the Worlds* (2019–2021), but Marianne Sheridan was the part that made people look. Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald's adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel gave her twelve episodes to be misread. Her stillness reads as arrogance in the first hour and, once we know her, as something closer to a flinch, and Paul Mescal's Connell is the right partner for it, an actor who looks like he is thinking when he says nothing. Two people not saying things is hard to film. They made it the whole show.

The film parts came fast after that: *Fresh* (2022), *Where the Crawdads Sing* (2022), *Under the Banner of Heaven* (2022) on television, then *Twisters* (2024). The pattern is easy to see. She is cast as the quiet young woman with something held back, and she is good at it. The complaint some critics made about *Crawdads*, that she seemed more polished than the background the story gave her, is one we understand: her restraint can read as breeding, and not every part wants breeding.

*Twisters* is the test case and the warning. Lee Isaac Chung's sequel casts her as Kate, a storm chaser written as a wound with a driving licence, and Edgar-Jones plays her with intelligence and restraint while the script keeps stopping so she can be sad in a doorway. Glen Powell is a film star; she is an actor, and the difference shows when the film gives him the truck and her the sky to look at. They are good together in the handful of scenes the script allows. The trouble is that a blockbuster does not know what to do with a performer whose best work is a nod, so it asks her to grieve on cue instead. We spent much of it wishing someone would hand her a line worth withholding.

Next comes Elinor Dashwood in *Sense and Sensibility* (2026), Austen's sensible sister, a part built for an actor who can be hurt without moving. It fits her almost too well. The interesting career is the one where somebody casts her against that quiet and finds out what she does when she is finally allowed to shout.

## Biography

Daisy Jessica Edgar-Jones is an English actress. She was born on 24 May 1998 in Islington, London. She trained with the National Youth Theatre and studied with the Open University. Her father, Philip Edgar-Jones, is director of Sky Arts and head of entertainment at Sky.

She began her career with roles in the television series *Cold Feet* (2016–2020) and *War of the Worlds* (2019–2021). She gained recognition for her starring role as Marianne Sheridan in the BBC/Hulu series *Normal People* (2020).

Her film roles include *Fresh* (2022), *Where the Crawdads Sing* (2022) and *Twisters* (2024), in which she played Kate. She also appeared in the miniseries *Under the Banner of Heaven* (2022) and the film *On Swift Horses* (2024), which she executive produced. On stage, she has performed in West End productions including an adaptation of *The Reluctant Fundamentalist* (2017) and a revival of *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof* (2024).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, thewrap.com, bbc.co.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Sense and Sensibility* (2026), Fi1m 73, as Elinor Dashwood — [page](https://film.one/film/sense-and-sensibility-2026.md)
- *Twisters* (2024), Fi1m 64, as Kate — [page](https://film.one/film/twisters.md)
- *Normal People* (2020), Fi1m 84, as Marianne Sheridan — [page](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md)
- *Gentleman Jack* (2019), Fi1m 82, as Delia Rawson — [page](https://film.one/tv/gentleman-jack.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow* (2027), as Sadie
- *A Place in Hell* (2027), as Cate Fine
- *Sense and Sensibility* (2026), as Elinor Dashwood — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/sense-and-sensibility-2026.md)
- *On Swift Horses* (2025), as Muriel · Executive Producer
- *Twain* (2024), Producer
- *Twisters* (2024), as Kate — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/twisters.md)
- *Where the Crawdads Sing* (2022), as Kya Clark
- *Under the Banner of Heaven* (2022), series, as Brenda Lafferty
- *Fresh* (2022), as Noa
- *Albion* (2020), as Zara
- *Normal People* (2020), series, as Marianne Sheridan — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md)
- *War of the Worlds* (2019), series, as Emily Gresham
- *Pond Life* (2019), as Cassie
- *Gentleman Jack* (2019), series, as Delia Rawson — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/gentleman-jack.md)
- *Outnumbered - Christmas Special 2016* (2016), as Kate
- *Cold Feet* (1998), series, as Olivia Marsden
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, as Jessica Timpson
- *Here Comes the Flood*, Actor
- *Mosquito*, series, as Kate · Executive Producer
- *Prince Charming*, Actor
- *Voyagers*, as Ann Druyan
- *Stan*, Actor
- *A Good Person*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Daisy Edgar-Jones](https://film.one/media/person/11217/gallery-6242e5a3a5d7.jpg) Daisy Edgar-Jones — John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Daisy_Edgar-Jones_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_2_%28better_crop%29.jpg/1280px-Daisy_Edgar-Jones_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_2_%28better_crop%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Daisy Edgar-Jones, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/11217/gallery-d8ebb21df916.jpg) Daisy Edgar-Jones, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Daisy_Edgar-Jones_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Daisy_Edgar-Jones_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Daisy Edgar-Jones, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/11217/gallery-a1d86ca12ff4.jpg) Daisy Edgar-Jones, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Daisy_Edgar-Jones_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28close-up%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Daisy Edgar-Jones, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/11217/gallery-08e8166df242.jpg) Daisy Edgar-Jones, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Daisy_Edgar-Jones_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Daisy_Edgar-Jones_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Daisy Edgar-Jones](https://film.one/media/person/11217/gallery-615211a00027.jpg) Daisy Edgar-Jones — Image via TMDB
- ![Daisy Edgar-Jones](https://film.one/media/person/11217/gallery-3c9a38fe5120.jpg) Daisy Edgar-Jones — Image via TMDB
- ![Daisy Edgar-Jones](https://film.one/media/person/11217/gallery-a9ea81a66fc1.jpg) Daisy Edgar-Jones — Image via TMDB
- ![Daisy Edgar-Jones, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/11217/gallery-09d144a003cb.jpg) Daisy Edgar-Jones, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Daisy_Edgar-Jones_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped2%29.jpg/1280px-Daisy_Edgar-Jones_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped2%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Daisy Edgar-Jones, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/11217/gallery-256490a6d69c.jpg) Daisy Edgar-Jones, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Daisy_Edgar-Jones_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_2.jpg/1280px-Daisy_Edgar-Jones_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Daisy Edgar-Jones](https://film.one/media/person/11217/gallery-cbf558146bc6.jpg) Daisy Edgar-Jones — Image via TMDB
- ![Daisy Edgar-Jones](https://film.one/media/person/11217/gallery-856715954797.jpg) Daisy Edgar-Jones — Image via TMDB
- ![Daisy Edgar-Jones](https://film.one/media/person/11217/gallery-86167bc88ec4.jpg) Daisy Edgar-Jones — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Golden Globes — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2023: Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series/Anthology or Motion Picture Made for Television (nominated), for *Under the Banner of Heaven*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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