Daisy Ridley is set to receive the Hollywood Rising Star Award at the Deauville Film Festival next month, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
Ridley is expected to attend the ceremony in Deauville. She will follow 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.
The festival takes place between September 8th and 15th.
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