Daisy Waterstone

Waterstone was born on 13 June 1994^[1] in Hammersmith, London, one of eight children of Sir Tim Waterstone, founder of the Waterstones bookshop chain, and film director/ producer and novelist Rosie Alison.^[2] She attended Francis Holland School, Sloane Square.^[3]

Waterstone became a member of the National Youth Theatre when she was thirteen, and later took a one-year foundation course at the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts before moving on to her acting career.^[4]

Waterstone started her professional career on stage at The Pleasance Theatre, Islington, as Lucy/Tootles in the original production of Peter Pan Goes Wrong,^[5] followed by playing Susanna Walcott at The Old Vic in Yaël Farber's production of The Crucible,^[4] and has also played Emma in Rules for Living at the Royal National Theatre.^[5]

In 2014 she appeared as Katie Bowman in two episodes of the TV series Silent Witness,^[5] as Beatrice in the TV miniseries And Then There Were None,^[5] and as Clare Leighton in Testament of Youth.^[6] In 2015 she had parts in Cyberbully,^[5] and Dark Was the Night.^[7]

From 2015 to 2019, Waterstone played the role of Margo Durrell, a main character in the family comedy drama series The Durrells,^[5] which ran for four series and twenty six episodes, finishing in May 2019. Following The Durrells her work includes Abigail in two episodes of The Capture in 2019,^[5] in a cast which included Holliday Grainger, Ron Perlman, Ben Miles, Nigel Lindsay, and Indira Varma. In 2022, she starred as Octavia Aldridge in four episodes of series 2, of Dalgliesh (2022),^[5] as Jacqueline Hill in The Long Shadow (2023),^[5] and as Fiona Carey in Prime Target (2025).^[5]

Also in 2025 she returned to the stage, co-starring as Loll in Dear Loll at Wilton's Music Hall, followed by tour. ^[8] In March 2026 she once more plays Abigail in three episodes of Series 3 of BBCTV's The Capture.^[5]