Daisy Donovan
Born: UK
The TV presenter-turned-actress landed heer big screen breakthrough role in Danny Boyle's children's film Millions.
On the small screen, she is best known for the irreverent 11 O'Clock Show and her own sitcom Daisy Daisy.
The daughter of late celebrity photographer Terence Donovan and his second wife Diana, a confidante of the late Princess of Wales, she had what she describes as a "privileged" upbringing.
She attended London's St Paul’s Girls’ School and Edinburgh University before training for the stage at the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Art.
Her East End raised father, who committed suicide, joked that his daughter’s cut-glass accent came with a £20,000- a-year price tag.
She first wanted to become a fashion journalist and as a work experience girl styled a 14-year-old Angelina Jolie.
After leaving drama school she landed a role in the Cate Blanchett period drama Elizabeth - but her five lines as Joseph Fienne's wife were cut.
Other minor roles included an uncredited appearance in Spice World and as a newspaper reporter in Still Crazy.
She took a job as a receptionist at TV company Talkback from where she was picked to present The 11 O’Clock Show seven days before it first went on air.
Subsequent TV roles have included My Family and Poirot: Death on the Nile andher own series Daisy, Daisy.
In 2004, she starred opposite James Nesbitt in the family drama Millions.
