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.
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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.
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As previously announced, Michael Douglas will be honored at this year’s 50th edition as guest of honor. He will feted on opening night of the festival, on Sept. 6.
The Deauville Film Festival is under the new leadership of Aude Hesbert following the suspension of longtime artistic director Bruno Barde. The latter has faced sexual misconduct allegations reported on June 13 in the French magazine Mediapart. Hesbert previously worked at Unifrance and most recently headed French film and TV residency program Villa Albertine in Los Angeles.
The festival will take place Sept. 8-15.
