Which actress played Daisy Buchanan in the 1974 film The Great Gatsby?

Mia Farrow played Daisy Buchanan in the 1974 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. She starred opposite Robert Redford, who played Jay Gatsby, in the lavish Paramount production directed by Jack Clayton.

The film was adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel and featured a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola. Its story follows Nick Carraway, played by Sam Waterston, as he becomes entangled in Gatsby’s attempt to rekindle his romance with Daisy, now married to Tom Buchanan.

Farrow’s casting came after several actresses were considered, including Candice Bergen, Katharine Ross, Tuesday Weld, and Faye Dunaway. Her Daisy was styled as an embodiment of the novel’s wealthy Jazz Age world, though critics gave the film and its performances mixed reviews.

Karen Black also appears in the movie, but she plays Myrtle Wilson, Tom Buchanan’s mistress—not Daisy. Carey Mulligan portrayed Daisy in the 2013 adaptation, while Jessica Lange played Daisy in a 1974 television version of the novel, making those names especially easy to confuse with Farrow’s film role.