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Following Daisy Edgar-Jones' breakthrough role in Normal People, her star continues to rise. She's now appearing in the dark comedy movie Fresh, which opened earlier this month. You can also look for her in the forthcoming movie Where the Crawdads Sing, a haunting murder-mystery due out in July. We figured it's a good time to got better acquainted with the 23-year-old Brit.
Here is a roundup of 10 things you might not know about her: 
1. Her father is a well-known TV executive who works for U.K. broadcaster Sky. 
Philip Edgar Jones is currently Director of Sky Arts and Head of Entertainment at Sky, but he has worked for various networks over the years. You can read his professional profile over on the Royal Television Society website. 
2. He gave her some very good advice about handling attention.
Because Edgar-Jones' dad used to produce the U.K. version of Big Brother, he has a special insight into what it's like to become famous overnight.
"He gave me the 'talk of doom,' he called it, which was something they used to do to Big Brother contestants, where they’d give you a talk on what fame was like," Edgar-Jones told Porter. "He was good at [saying], ‘Keep your head screwed on, keep your feet on the floor, don’t get too swept up in something; you’re still you, you haven’t changed, even if people around you might.'"
3. She got bitten by the acting bug at age seven.
It happened when Edgar-Jones was cast as the ill-fated second wife of King Henry VIII in a school play. "I played Anne Boleyn, who got her head chopped off," Edgar-Jones told Flaunt. "I remember really getting into character and being really angry and couldn't believe he had done this to me after I was the best wife. Anyway, afterwards, I was like, 'Oh I quite like that.' At that time, I was very unassuming, quiet, so I was really enjoying being able to become this character who was very different from who I was."
4. She is currently learning to DJ.
Edgar-Jones told Time Out London in February that her dream club to DJ at would be Printworks London, a massive, 6,000-capacity space in the city's Canada Water neighborhood. "That would be a cool venue, although I'm not sure I'm good enough to DJ in front of people," she added modestly.
5. She has a very distinctive accent: partly because of her parents, and partly because of her job.
Edgar-Jones grew up in London, England, but because her father is Scottish and her mother is Northern Irish, she was surrounded by their accents, too. "My grandad moved in with us when I was about 11 as well. He died when I was 16. He had a very strong Northern Irish accent. Another big influence," she told The Guardian.
"I’ve played a lot of characters with accents, and I feel like I’ve sort of kept bits of them in my subconscious," she added. "Whenever I get shy, whenever I find it hard to speak as myself, little pieces of these accents sort of creep out."
You can hear Edgar-Jones' accent below, in this clip from her recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show.

6. She and co-star Paul Mescal have devised a Normal People drinking game.
They concocted it when they finally got to watch the show together during the summer of 2020. Because the U.K. was in lockdown when Normal People premiered earlier that year, they weren't able to hang out in person at the time.
"We thought up some funny rules: every time Connell doesn’t complete a sentence, or every time Marianne says something a bit disarming, you drink," Edgar-Jones told Elle. "It's quite a lethal game, though. I'd recommend taking some caution whilst playing it. Sometimes you only did a little sip, and sometimes you had to do a big gulp; when the characters said 'I love you,' which doesn't happen very often, you had to down a big old drink." 
7. As a teenager, she honed her craft at the U.K.'s National Youth Theatre.
She's definitely in good company in having the NYT on her résumé. Other actors who got a start there include Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Craig, Helen Mirren, Idris Elba, and Kate Winslet.
“I always loved drama and my mum heard about the company and she was like 'you should just audition for the experience,'" Edgar-Jones told Ham & High. "It's quite hard to get in and a lot of people apply. I went along to the audition not really knowing what to expect and had the best day ever and was lucky enough to get in. It was my mum really; I’ve got a lot to thank her for!"
8. She suffers from hypochondria.
Edgar-Jones revealed on the How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast that it tends to "come in waves," depending on what she has going on in her life at the time.
"I've sort of had it for a while and I just think it ‘s my way of dealing with anxiety," Edgar-Jones continued. "It comes out in a sort of need to control. If I see a rash for example, if I really overthink that and Google the heck out of it, then I’m controlling it in some way. If I find out that it’s something really sinister, I've caught it before it could potentially become something worse."
9. She experienced pangs of self-doubt while making Normal People.
Edgar-Jones told The Guardian that he went through "real highs" and "some lows" during shooting because she was aware of her relative inexperience as an actor.
"There were definitely times I thought, my God, I don’t know what I’m doing, I’m too wee," she said. "There was this thought that if I had one bad day at work I'd have to live with the results for the rest of my life.”
10. And finally, she appeared in a Normal People x Fleabag crossover.
She and Mescal reprised their roles in a sketch for Irish Comic Relief featuring Andrew Scott as his "Hot Priest" character. It takes place, as you might expect, in the priest's confessional and it's very clever.

Do you have a favorite Daisy Edgar-Jones performance to date?