Daisy May Cooper


Daisy May Cooper is an English actress and writer. She won the 2018 BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for playing Kerry Mucklowe in the BBC Three series This Country, which she co-created and co-wrote with her brother, Charlie Cooper.

Early life and education

Cooper was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, in 1986 and is the older of two siblings. Her brother, Charlie Cooper, is also an actor and writer. She attended Cirencester Deer Park School, followed by drama school at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Career

After landing one role as a young mother in the ITV series Doc Martin she left and 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.
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 as the film Kerry, setting the basis for This Country.
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.
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 July 29th 2020 it was announced that Cooper would be taking part in the tenth series of Taskmaster.

Personal life

Cooper married her long-term partner, Will Weston, on 21 September 2019. The couple have a daughter named Pip. Cooper announced on 19 March 2020 that she was expecting their second child.

Filmography