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While not a particularly strong Star Wars fan as a youth, she dedicatedly followed the Harry Potter series.

Ridley has stated that while growing up, her favourite film was Matilda (1996), referring to the titular character (played by Mara Wilson) as a role model. Her paternal great-uncle, Arnold Ridley, also served in the military, and separately forged a career as a playwright and actor (notably playing Private Godfrey in the sitcom Dad's Army) his brother, Daisy's grandfather, John Harry Dunn Ridley, OBE, was head of the Engineering Secretariat at the BBC from 1950 to 1965. Her mother's family, the Fawkner-Corbetts, were landed gentry with a military and medical background. She has two older sisters, Kika Rose and Poppy Sophia, as well as two older half-sisters. She is the youngest of three daughters born to Christopher Ridley, a photographer, and Louise (née Fawkner-Corbett), who works in internal communications for a bank.