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Daisy Jessica Edgar-Jones (born 24 May 1998) is an English actress. She began her career with the series Cold Feet (2016–2020) and War of the Worlds (2019–2021). She gained recognition for her starring role in the BBC / Hulu romantic drama limited series Normal People(2020), which earned her nominations for a British Academy Television Award and a Golden Globe Award. She has expanded her career, taking film roles in the horror-thriller Fresh (2022), the mystery Where the Crawdads Sing (2022), the disaster film Twisters (2024), and the romantic drama On Swift Horses (2024), the latter of which she also executive produced. On television, she played a Mormon murder victim in the FX on Hulu crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven, earning a second Golden Globe Award nomination. On stage, she has acted on the West End in plays such as the adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2017) and a revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2024). She appeared on British Vogue's 2020 list of influential women. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daisy Edgar-Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Daisy Edgar-Jones
Claire Fairmont
for Claire Fairmont in Until the Final Horn
Suggested by jakubduda
Jerry Fairmont got fame with Detroit, chased championships, learned what winning costs. In Montreal, Rangers, and Florida felt cruelty of playoff heartbreak. Over 3 decades, he became one of the defining players of his era, champion, captain, warrior. But time caught him the way it do to us all. Injuries slowed him. His production dipped. The league got younger and faster. When Penguins signed him 10 years ago he won them titles but extension now critics call name selling tickets. This season his numbers are low. His knee isn’t good. TV analysts ask why he hasn’t retired. “He isnt the same. Legends don’t know when to leave.” Fans are loyal and in locker room, best friend, teammate for years. “You’re still the guy I want out there.” Team limp to the playoffs. Once it begins, he transforms, plays smarter, more deliberate, wins faceoffs, blocks shots, scores. Penguins reaches Cup Final and series goes to Game 7. Overtime. Exhausted Fairmont steps onto the ice. For second, everything slows. 20 years compressed into one movement. Fires. Red light. Fairmont scores the winning goal. Arena detonates. He got the cup first. “I gave everything I had to this game, And it gave me more than I ever deserved.” He looks at teammates, At crowd. “This was my last shift.” He raises the Stanley Cup one final time. Later he returns alone to arena. He kneels at center and presses his hand against it. “Thank you.” Folds his jersey on the bench and walks down the tunnel as the lights dim one by one.
