Daisy Waterstone (born 13 June 1994) is a British actress, best known for playing Margo Durrell in the ITV family drama The Durrells.
Early life Waterstone was born on 13 June 1994 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. She attended Francis Holland School, Sloane Square.
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.
Career Waterstone started her professional career on stage at The Pleasance Theatre, Islington, as Lucy/Tootles in the original production of Peter Pan Goes Wrong, followed by playing Susanna Walcott at The Old Vic in Yaël Farber's production of The Crucible, and has also played Emma in Rules for Living at the Royal National Theatre.
In 2014 she appeared as Katie Bowman in two episodes of the TV series Silent Witness, as Beatrice in the TV miniseries And Then There Were None, and as Clare Leighton in Testament of Youth. In 2015 she had parts in Cyberbully, and Dark Was the Night.
From 2015 to 2019, Waterstone played the role of Margo Durrell, a main character in the family comedy drama series The Durrells, 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, 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), as Jacqueline Hill in The Long Shadow (2023), and as Fiona Carey in Prime Target (2025).
Also in 2025 she returned to the stage, co-starring as Loll in Dear Loll at Wilton's Music Hall, followed by tour. In March 2026 she once more plays Abigail in three episodes of Series 3 of BBCTV's The Capture.
Filmography Film YearTitleRoleNotes or ref 2014 Testament of Youth Clare Leighton 2015Cyberbully Tamara Mathis 2015 Dark Was the Night Vik Short film 2018 La La Means I Love You Lois Short film 2018 Kate Short film 2018 Elsa Short film 2020 Indefinately Tilly Short film
Television YearTitleRoleNotes Ref 2014 Silent Witness Katie Bowman Episode: "Fraternity" (2 parts) 2015 And Then There Were None Beatrice 1 episode 2015–2019 Margo Durrell 26 episodes 2019–2022 The Capture Abigail 4 episodes 2022 T.S. Eliot: Into 'The Waste Land''' | The Hyacinth Girl | TV documentary
|2023 |Dalgliesh| Octavia Aldridge | 2 episodes
| 2023 | The Long Shadow| Jacqueline Hill | 2 episodes
|2025 |Prime Target'' Fiona Carey 3 episodes
Theatre
YearTitleRoleTheatre Ref 2013 Peter Pan Goes Wrong Lucy/Tootles 2014 Susanna Walcott 2015 Rules for Living Emma 2016 Alligators Genevieve Hampstead Theatre
References
External links
The Durrells in Corfu: A Day in the Life of Daisy Waterstone