Daisy Edgar-Jones

Career overview

Edgar‑Jones entered professional acting with a recurring role on the ITV comedy‑drama Cold Feet, appearing from 2016 through 2020. She then secured a principal part in the BBC’s three‑part adaptation of War of the Worlds, which aired between 2019 and 2021. Her breakthrough arrived with the 2020 BBC and Hulu co‑production Normal People, in which she portrayed Marianne Sheridan opposite Paul Mescal. The series received critical acclaim, and Edgar‑Jones’s performance earned her nominations for a British Academy Television Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. Following her television success, Edgar‑Jones moved into feature films. In 2022 she appeared in the horror‑thriller Fresh and in the mystery adaptation Where the Crawdads Sing, both released the same year. She continued to diversify her screen work with the 2024 disaster film Twisters and the romantic drama On Swift Horses, the latter of which she also served as an executive producer. On television, she took on the role of a Mormon murder victim in an FX on Hulu series, further demonstrating her range across genres and formats.