Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the Deauville Film Festival in Normandy, France is currently running through September 15th, and last night Daisy Ridley was in attendance to receive the Hollywood Rising Star Award. Last year’s award went to Emilia Clarke, so be interesting if Star Wars alumni can make it a hattrick in 2025.
She followS in the footsteps of Emilia Clarke (2023), Ana de Armas (2022), Paul Dano (2012) and Robert Pattinson (2015), as well as Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain who received the first Hollywood Rising-Star Award in 2011.
Ridley is best known for her role as the combative Rey in the “Star Wars” trilogy, in which she starred opposite Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac and Jon Boyega.
On top of blockbusters, Ridley has also starred in Kenneth Branagh’s “Murder on the Orient Express,” along with critically acclaimed indies such as Claire McCarthy’s “Ophelia,” and Rachel Lambert’s drama “Sometimes I Think About Dying,”as well as Sam Yates’ “Magpie” which premiered at this year’s SXSW Festival. She most recently starred in “Young Woman and the Sea directed by Joachim Rønning. The film, which was theatrically by Disney, is based Glenn Stout’s novel of Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle, the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel.
