Daisy May Cooper (born August 1, 1986) is an British actress and writer. She portrays Moordale Secondary Librarian on Netflix's Sex Education.
Biography[]
Cooper was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, and is the elder of two children. Her brother, Charlie Cooper, is also an actor and writer.[citation needed]
After one role as a young mother in ITV series Doc Martin, Daisy returned to the West Country, working as a cleaner with her brother Charlie. For a while the siblings lived together – their experiences would later form part of the writings for This Country.[citation needed]
In 2014, she landed the role of PC Garvey in the TV series The Wrong Mans. In the same year, a pilot based on the Coopers' initial series pitch had been shot for ITV as the (never released) film Kerry, setting the basis for This Country.[citation needed]
She wrote and starred with her brother, Charlie, in the BBC Three comedy series This Country, for which she won a TV BAFTA award for Best Female Comedy Performance in 2018. Due to the success of the first series of This Country, a second series was commissioned and aired on BBC Three in February 2018. A third series aired in 2020.[citation needed]
In 2019, she played Peggotty in The Personal History of David Copperfield and in 2020, she had a part in Armando Iannucci's HBO space comedy Avenue 5. She also appeared with her father, Paul, on Celebrity Gogglebox. On 29 July 2020, Cooper took part in the tenth series of Taskmaster. In 2022 she played one of the two lead characters in the television sitcom The Witchfinder.[citation needed]
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External links[]
Daisy May on Wikipedia
Daisy May at the Internet Movie Database
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