Great news for Daisy Ridley, almost a decade after she arrived on screens in The Force Awakens (the highest grossing movie in US box office history and the fifth highest grossding movie of all time, ahead of two sequels which brought in 2.3bn between them) she is set to recieve the Deauville Festival’s Hollywood Rising Star Award, proving that it’s never too late to make a first impression. The festival takes place from the 8th to the 15th September, which will also see Michael Douglas honoured as guest of honour on the opening night of the festival on 6th September.
Daisy Ridley will receive the Hollywood Rising Star Award at the Deauville Film Festival which will celebrate this year its 50th anniversary.
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 combattive Rey in the “Star Wars” trilogy, in which she starred opposite Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac and Jon Boyega.
Congratulations Daisy. The current bookies favourite for the 2025 award is film and stage legend James Earl Jones.*
*Probably not, but possibly.
