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Daisy May Cooper

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Daisy May Cooper
Born (1986-08-01) 1 August 1986 (age 36)
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England
Alma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupations
  • Actress
  • writer
Years active2011–present
Spouse
Will Weston
​
​
(m. 2019; sep. 2021)​
Children2
RelativesCharlie Cooper (younger brother)
Trevor Cooper (uncle)
This article is about the actor and writer. For the politician, see Daisy Cooper.

Daisy May Cooper (born 1 August 1986) 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 younger brother, Charlie Cooper.

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This Country

This Country

This Country is a British mockumentary sitcom, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Three on 8 February 2017. Created by, written by and starring siblings Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper and directed by Tom George, the series focusses on the day-to-day lives of two cousins living in a small village in the Cotswolds. The programme includes themes of social clumsiness, the trivialities of human behaviour, the eccentricities of living in rural England, and the boredom and social isolation of young people in small communities.

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Charlie Cooper (actor)

Charlie Cooper is an English actor and writer, known for his role as Lee "Kurtan" Mucklowe in the BBC Three series This Country, which he co-created and co-wrote alongside his older sister, Daisy May Cooper.

Early life and education

Cooper was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, in 1986 and is the elder of two children. 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.[1][2]

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Cirencester

Cirencester

Cirencester is a market town in Gloucestershire, England, 80 miles (130 km) west of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in the Cotswolds. It is the home of the Royal Agricultural University, the oldest agricultural college in the English-speaking world, founded in 1840. The town had a population of 20,229 in 2021.

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean.

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Charlie Cooper is an English actor and writer, known for his role as Lee "Kurtan" Mucklowe in the BBC Three series This Country, which he co-created and co-wrote alongside his older sister, Daisy May Cooper.

Cirencester Deer Park School

Cirencester Deer Park School

Cirencester Deer Park School is a secondary school with academy status in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. It is situated at the top of Tetbury Hill, an area which had been the site of a World War II American Army Hospital, in Cirencester Park.

Career

After one role as a young mother in ITV series Doc Martin she 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.[3][4]

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.[5]

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.[3][6][7] Due to the success of the first series of This Country, a second series was commissioned and aired on BBC Three in February 2018.[3] A third series aired in 2020.[8]

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.[9] She also appeared with her father, Paul, on Celebrity Gogglebox.[9] On 29 July 2020, Cooper took part in the tenth series of Taskmaster.[10] In 2022 she played one of the two lead characters in the television sitcom The Witchfinder.

In 2023, she participated as "Otter" on the fourth series of The Masked Singer.[11]

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Personal life

Cooper married her long-term partner, Will Weston, on 21 September 2019.[12] The couple have two children, a daughter, Pip and a son born in October 2020, named Jack Michael Weston, in honour of her late friend and This Country co-star, Michael Sleggs, who played the dull friend of Kurtan and Kerry, Michael ‘Slugs’ Slugett. Michael Sleggs died in 2019, age 33, after battling terminal cancer.[13] In July 2021, it was reported that Cooper had separated from her husband, 10 months after the birth of her son.[14]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2011 Doc Martin Young Mum 1 episode (Series 5 Episode 5, Remember Me)
2014 The Wrong Mans PC Garvey 2 episodes
2017–2020 This Country Kerry Mucklowe Main role; also co-writer and creator
2019 The Personal History of David Copperfield Peggotty Film
2020-2022 Avenue 5 Sarah (season 1); Zarah (Season 2) Recurring role; teleplay & writer (episode 7)
2020 Taskmaster Herself Series 10
2020 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Herself Series 20 (episode 3)
2021-2022 Never Mind the Buzzcocks Herself (Team Captain) Series 29 & 30
2022 RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs the World[15] Herself Guest judge
2022 The Witchfinder[16] Thomasine Gooch Appears in all six episodes
2022 Am I Being Unreasonable?[17] Nic Main role; also co-writer and creator
2023 The Masked Singer[11] Otter/Herself Unmasked in episode 6
2023 Rain Dogs Costello Main role
2023 Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway Herself Star Guest Announcer (Series 19 Episode 3)

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Source: "Daisy May Cooper", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 13th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_May_Cooper.

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