Daisy Edgar Jones is quickly becoming a household name after her latest starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster.
The actress, 26, had her first screen role in the TV series Cold Feet, before going on to appear in War of the Worlds and Normal People, which earned her nominations for a British Academy Television Award and a Golden Globe Award.
She then went on to star in the silver screen adaptation of the best-selling novel Where the Crawdads Sing, and as a murder victim in the crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven, a role which also saw her pick up another Golden Globe nomination.
Daisy is now starring alongside Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos in the disaster film Twisters.
Since her career took off, Daisy has largely kept her private life out of the spotlight, however the actress does in fact have a pretty famous father.
Daisy’s Northern Irish mother Wendy is a former drama film editor who now works in real estate, while her Scottish father, Philip, is director of Sky Arts and head of entertainment at Sky.
Philip joined Sky in 2012 as Head of Entertainment where he commissioned for Sky 1, Atlantic and Arts, with shows including Wild Things and Portrait Artist of the Year on Sky Arts.
He then took on overall responsibility for Sky Arts in 2014 and since then has commissioned programmes ranging from Brian Johnson’s Tales from the Road to Tate Britain’s Great British Walks; Wagners Ring Cycle from Bayreuth to the world’s first Computer Generated Musical – Beyond the Fence.
Before working at Sky, Philip was the creative director of Remarkable Pictures (part of Endemol UK) where he oversaw Big Brother and entertainment projects including the first constructed reality show in the UK, The Salon, Space Cadets, Shattered and Seven Days on the Breadline.
His other TV credits include The Priory, The Jack Docherty Show, The Big Breakfast, The Word and The Sunday Show.
One of his first jobs was as a writer for a Sky 1 show called Barry’s Joy Pad featuring a then unknown David Walliams.
Early in his career Philip also presented TV programmes including Moviewatch and GamesWorld Live, and also wrote for magazines specialising in music and film.
Daisy previously spoke about how her family encouraged her to take up acting.
‘The biggest impact they had was encouraging me to audition for the National Youth Theatre at age 14. That’s how I first auditioned in an open casting and how I got my agent,’ she said.
‘I was really lucky, growing up in a household that loves the arts. We would go to the theatre a lot as a family and watch films and TV.
‘Both of my parents had an idea of what it felt like to be self-employed, which is a big part of being an actor. You don’t always know when the next job is coming. And I guess, therefore, they were less fearful of me pursuing something that was without security.’
In 2020 Daisy told NET-A-PORTER’s digital title Porter that her dad once gave her ‘the talk of doom’ though.
‘My dad had a really good insight into handling some form of spotlight. He gave me the “talk of doom”, he called it, which was something they used to do to Big Brother contestants, where they’d give you a talk on what fame was like,’ she explained.
‘He was good at [saying], “Keep your head screwed on, keep your feet on the floor, don’t get too swept up in something; you’re still you, you haven’t changed, even if people around you might.’”
Around the same time she said his advice had been ‘very useful because I’d never want to be like that’.
Daisy is an only child and once explained how close she is to her parents, living with them until she was 24.
‘They’re probably sick of me now. I think they loved it for a bit and now they’re like, “Get out”,’ she joked to the Sydney Morning Herald two years ago.
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She also described them as ‘two of [her] closest friends’.