Daisy Ridley
Daisy Ridley is an English actress best known for playing Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy between 2015 and 2019. She has also appeared in Murder on the Orient Express, Ophelia, and provided voices for the animated film, Peter Rabbit. She has also had leading roles in sci-fi film Chaos Walking, independent drama Sometimes I Think About Dying, and the psychological thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter. In 2024, she portrayed Gertrude Ederle in the biographical drama Young Woman and the Sea, and is currently preparing to return to a galaxy far, far away for an upcoming Star Wars film.
According to Vegan Food and Living, “during an interview about The Last Jedi, she praised the vegan options while balancing filming and promoting the film. Moreover, on this year’s Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer, Daisy cooked with 100 per cent vegan ingredients. She created vegan banoffee-inspired millionaire’s shortbread, a chocolate and raspberry tart and a rather unconventional toilet-shaped cake.”
Daisy became vegan after watching fellow vegan Simon Amstell’s mockumentary, Carnage, in 2017. The brilliant film is set in a vegan future and explores the guilt felt by society’s meat-eating past. Although some sources say she sometimes eats fish, as of 2024, she was identifying as a vegan.
