Daisy May Cooper says she’d ‘shoplift and drink heavily’ as she struggled to find a job – now she’s ‘addicted to money’

DAISY May Cooper has admitted that she’d ‘shoplift’ and ‘drink very heavily’ while struggling to find a job.

The actress found fame on BBC Three comedy This Country and she is now in talks to join the James Bond franchise as spy chief ‘M’.

But it hasn’t all been smooth sailing for the 36-year-old star, and she opened up about shoplifting.

“Me and Charlie used to shoplift all the time,” she began, Charlie being her brother who is also an actor.

Daisy continued: “He used to put a chicken through as onions at the supermarket self-service because onions obviously cost so much less.

“He got caught and we were followed around after that. It’s awful, but you do what you have to do to survive. It’s not right morally, but Robin Hood stole from the rich to give to the poor and everyone thinks he’s great, right?"

Daisy then mentioned the latest character she's playing - Costello in HBO show Rain Dogs.

She told Radio Times: “I love characters that are deeply flawed because that’s real life. Nobody’s angelic."

Daisy has opened up on growing up in “rural poverty” in her 2021 memoir Don’t Laugh, It’ll Only Encourage Her.

In it, she says she took on a “myriad of low-paid, unrewarding jobs” while in her youth.

She was raised in Gloucestershire and then moved to London to study at Rada, a renowned drama school.

In 2018 she won the Bafta TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for playing Kerry Mucklowe in This Country, a show that she co-wrote with her brother, Charlie Cooper.

The actress famously wore a Swindon Town FC dress to the awards - as her character Kerry is a massive fan.

Elsewhere, she's been in Doc Martin, The Wrong Mans, Avenue 5 and was a contestant in series 10 of Taskmaster.

She also had a role in the film The Personal History Of David Copperfield.

Daisy married her long-term partner Will Weston in the Cotswolds in 2019.

But the pair split after Daisy was said to have grown “tired” of her two-year marriage amid the pressure of lockdown.

It came ten months after the birth of their second child.

Together they have two children, a daughter named Pip and son called Jack.