> In the 2015 Star Wars film The Force Awakens, which actress plays the maincharacter named Rey? And the answer: Daisy Ridley. Born in London in 1992, Daisy Ridley shot to stardom playing Rey, the leadingrole in the Star Wars movies The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise ofSkywalker. Her character is a lone scavenger whose life changes when she agreesto help a droid on an urgent mission. She soon uncovers her full potential usingthe Force.Photo credit: Disney.Now recognized around the world as Rey the last (?) Jedi,Daisy Ridley was an unknown face before starring in this iconic breakthroughrole. The move to debut a new star as the face of the franchise was a deliberateone by J.J. Abrams – evidently the director sought to replicate the success ofGeorge Lucas' choice to cast relatively unknown actors for the lead roles in thefirst Star Wars film (1977).(Warning: potential spoilers ahead...)As the Star Wars official Wiki explains, Ridley's character is a formerscavenger from the planet Jakku, and her life was changed by the tumultuousevents of the last days of the New Republic Era. Rey's decision to help thedroid BB-8 would set her on a course to discovering the Force within her,leading her to seek out Jedi Master Luke Skywalker for training. Yet, despiteher commitment to the Jedi Order and the light side of the Force, Rey felt thepull to the dark side, stemming from her anger and the adversarial relationshipshe had with Ben Solo, a fallen Jedi whom she knew as the dark warrior Kylo Ren. The Force Awakens received an enthusiastic response at the box office. Ridley'sdebut film role was the highest-grossing film of 2015, bringing in $936.7million in the United States and Canada and $1.132 billion in other countries,for a worldwide total of $2.068 billion. Ridley has recently remarked that it'stime for her to put the character of Rey on the shelf with the completion of thetrilogy, but made sure to note:> "[...] never say never. I’m always open to a revisit. But also the beautifulthing is it’s this wonderful, huge universe with all of these stories that haveyet to be told. I think there’s a lot of cool things to be made before anypotential revisit."Learn more about Ridley here[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/daisy_ridley].