History Creator / DaisyRidley

* ''Magpie'' (TBA) also co-producer

* CreatorBacklash: A mild example followed after ''Ophelia's''s premiere. Ridley [[https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a28311243/star-wars-daisy-ridley-ophelia-role-fears/ admitted]] she was initially upset by the film's lukewarm reception and didn't much care for the cut of the film shown at the Sundance Film Festival, especially as it was her first leading role after ''Star Wars'' ("In ''Star Wars'', Rey has an important story but it's not like it's Rey's film. This is like I'm playing Ophelia in ''Ophelia''."). However, she had a much more positive reaction to the film's final cut.

* CreatorBacklash: A mild example followed after ''Ophelia''s premiere. Ridley [[https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a28311243/star-wars-daisy-ridley-ophelia-role-fears/ admitted]] she was initially upset by the film's lukewarm reception and didn't much care for the cut of the film shown at the Sundance Film Festival, especially as it was her first leading role after ''Star Wars'' ("In ''Star Wars'', Rey has an important story but it's not like it's Rey's film. This is like I'm playing Ophelia in ''Ophelia''."). However, she had a much more positive reaction to the film's final cut.

She is the grandniece of playwright and actor Arnold Ridley, who played Private Godfrey in ''Series/DadsArmy'', and is married to actor Creator/TomBateman.

* ''The Inventor'' (TBA) as Marguerite de Nevarre

* FakeNationality: She plays a Dane as the title character in ''Ophelia''.

* ''Sometimes I Think About Dying'' (2023) as Fran; also producer

* StarMakingRole: Her career skyrocketed the very day ''The Force Awakens'' came out; she was considered for the title role in the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' [[Film/TombRaider2018 reboot]] (losing out to Creator/AliciaVikander), gave her voice to the English dub of ''Only Yesterday'', and also became an executive producer to the movie ''The Eagle Huntress''. She was also quickly cast in the lead roles of two YA film adaptations (''Ophelia'' and ''Chaos Walking'') and was cast in a major role in the 2017 adaptation of ''Murder on the Orient Express'' all within a few years of ''The Force Awakens'''s release.

** Viola in ''Chaos Walking'' is the most extreme example. Ridley was 24 when she was first cast and 25 when filming started. She was 27 when the 2019 reshoots took place and nearly 29 when the movie finally came out. In the book, Viola is around ''13 years old'', well over a decade younger than Ridley; Viola does apparently receive an AgeLift in the film that puts her in her late teens, though in this case Ridley was still around a decade older than the character.

* VocalDissonance: Her voice is surprisingly deep and smooth compared to her doe-eyed appearance.

* ''[[Film/TheMarshKings Daughter2023 The Marsh King's Daughter]]'' (2023) as Helena Pelletier

* ''The Marsh King's Daughter'' (2023) as Helena Pelletier

* ''The Marsh King's Daughter'' (TBA) as Helena Pelletier

She is the grandniece of playwright and actor Arnold Ridley, who played Private Godfrey in ''Series/DadsArmy''.

->''"Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus Franchise/StarWars. It's just been an incredible time."''

* CreatorBacklash: A mild example followed after ''Ophelia'''s premiere. Ridley [[https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a28311243/star-wars-daisy-ridley-ophelia-role-fears/ admitted]] she was initially upset by the film's lukewarm reception and didn't much care for the cut of the film shown at the Sundance Film Festival, especially as it was her first leading role after ''Star Wars'' ("In ''Star Wars'', Rey has an important story but it's not like it's Rey's film. This is like 'I'm playing Ophelia in ''Ophelia'''."). However, she had a much more positive reaction to the film's final cut.

* CreatorBreakdown: A mild example, combined with CreatorBacklash, followed after ''Ophelia'''s premiere. Ridley [[https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a28311243/star-wars-daisy-ridley-ophelia-role-fears/ admitted]] she was initially upset by the film's lukewarm reception and didn't much care for the cut of the film shown at the Sundance Film Festival, especially as it was her first leading role after ''Star Wars'' ("In ''Star Wars'', Rey has an important story but it's not like it's Rey's film. This is like "I'm playing Ophelia in ''Ophelia''"."). However, she had a much more positive reaction to the film's final cut.

** She was 22 years old when she first played Rey, who according to supplementary material is 19 years old in ''The Force Awakens'', largely averting Dawson Casting. It's more significant in ''The Last Jedi''; it's an ImmediateSequel so Rey is still 19, while during filming Ridley was 23/24, four-to-five years older. ''The Rise of Skywalker'' is set a year later, making Rey 20 years old now, while Ridley was 26 when filming began.
** Ophelia is implied to be in her late teens (her exact age isn't given), while Ridley was 25 during principal production.

* ReclusiveArtist: After some bad experiences on social media and personal information about her family got out, she deleted all of her accounts and doesn’t talk about her personal life anymore. She went back to Instagram in 2022, though this was after six years of disusing social media.

* StarMakingRole: Her career skyrocketed the very day ''The Force Awakens'' came out; she was considered for the title role in the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' [[Film/TombRaider2018 reboot]] (losing out to Creator/AliciaVikander), has given her voice to the English dub of ''Only Yesterday'', and also became an executive producer to the movie ''The Eagle Huntress''. She was also quickly cast in the lead roles of two YA film adaptations (''Ophelia'' and ''Chaos Walking'') and was cast in a major role in a new adaptation of ''Murder on the Orient Express'', all within a few years of ''The Force Awakens'''s release.

* RomanceOnTheSet: She began dating actor Creator/TomBateman in 2017, after they met on the set of ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress2017''.

* ''Sometimes I Think About Dying'' (TBA) as Fran; also producer

** The Wife in ''Twelve Minutes'' appears to be a normal woman who adores her husband and is excited to be expecting a child with him. However, she's then accused of murdering her father [[spoiler:and despite her initial denials, it turns out she ''did'' seemingly kill him, though unbeknownst to her she only wounded him and someone else finished the job; it was also more of an AccidentalMurder]]. Like with Mary Debenham, the incident was prompted by a personal grievance; [[spoiler:the Wife's father cheated on her mother, causing her to fall into a deep depression and die prematurely. When the Wife confronted him about this, things got out of hand]].
* ReclusiveArtist: After some bad experiences on social media and personal information about her family got out, she deleted all of her accounts and doesn’t talk about her personal life anymore.