10 Actresses Who Made An Unexpected Splash In Popular Franchises

2. Daisy Ridley - Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The biggest unknown quantity on the rundown comes in the form of Daisy Ridley. Whittled down from an open casting call for a little film you may have heard of called The Force Awakens, she was put at the forefront of a major culture-shifting saga. It's Star Wars I'm talking about by the way. True, she had a fair amount of help being involved in the adventures of Han Solo and co in the first place, but that isn't always a blessing. Hayden Christensen failed to make much of a dent in the legacy for the prequels, so if the chapter had gone more tits up than a multi-cleavaged dancer at Mos Eisley she would have taken a serious career hit. As it turned out she not only gave cinemagoers a great performance, she held her own against the likes of Harrison Ford, going above and beyond to give the franchise the required kahoneys to plough a new furrow in the landscape of this legendary movie universe.