Jessie Buckley (born 28 December 1989) is an Irish actress and singer. Her accolades include the Academy Award for Best Actress (becoming the first Irish woman to win the award), a British Academy Film Award, an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Scottish BAFTA, in addition to an additional nomination for an Academy Award. Buckley began her career in 2008 as a contestant on the BBC talent show I'd Do Anything, in which she came second. A RADA graduate, her early onscreen appearances were in BBC television series such as War & Peace (2016) and Taboo (2017). Buckley made her film debut with the lead role in Beast (2017), followed by her breakout role as an aspiring country music singer in the musical film Wild Rose (2018); the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Buckley's career progressed with starring roles in films such as I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), Men (2022), Women Talking (2022) and Wicked Little Letters (2023). For her performance as a troubled mother in the psychological drama The Lost Daughter (2021), she received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She gained further recognition for her portrayal of Agnes Shakespeare in the period drama Hamnet (2025), receiving a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, an Actor Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actress. On television, Buckley has starred in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019) and season four of Fargo (2020). On stage, Buckley's portrayal of Sally Bowles in a 2021 West End theatre revival of Cabaret won her the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. In 2022, she released the collaborative album For All Our Days That Tear the Heart with Bernard Butler, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Mercury Prize. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessie Buckley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026The Bride! — Ida / The Bride / Mary Shelley
• 2026The Scarecrows' Wedding — Betty O'Barley (voice)
• 2025Hamnet — Agnes
• 2025How to Shoot a Ghost — Anthi
• 2024Three Hares — Narrator
• 2024Wicked Little Letters — Rose Gooding
• 2023Fingernails — Anna
• 2022Men — Harper
• 2022Scrooge: A Christmas Carol — Isabel Fezziwig (voice)
• 2022Women Talking — Mariche
• 2021National Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet — Juliet
• 2021The Lost Daughter — Young Leda Caruso
• 2020Dolittle — Queen Victoria
• 2020I'm Thinking of Ending Things — Young Woman
• 2020Misbehaviour — Jo Robinson
• 2020The Courier — Sheila Wynne
• 2019A Battle in Waterloo — Ellen
• Chernobyl — Lyudmilla Ignatenko
• 2019Judy — Rosalyn Wilder
• Rob & Romesh Vs
• 2019Wild Rose — Rose-Lynn Harlan, Songs
• 2018Beast — Moll Huntford
• 2018Pulsar — Cassa
• The Woman in White — Marian Halcombe
• 2017Red Light — Kelly
• Taboo — Lorna Bow
• The Last Post — Honor Martin
• 2016The Complete Walk: Romeo and Juliet — Juliet
• War and Peace — Marya Bolkonskaya
• 2015Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale — Perdita
• Fargo — Oraetta Mayflower
• 2014The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe — Miranda
• Endeavour — Kitty Batten
• 2012Join My Band — Stella
• Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love — Emily Strong
• Later... with Jools Holland
• Great Performances — Juliet
• Hold On to Your Angels
• Three Incestuous Sisters — Clothilde

Appearances as themselves (17)

• 2025Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story — Self
• 2025Inside Look: Hamnet — Self
• Variety & CNN Actors on Actors — Self
• 2024Quintessentially Irish — Self
• 2024The Cable That Changed the World — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius — Self
• Movies with Ali Plumb — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• I'd Do Anything — Herself - Potential Nancy
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway — Self
• The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee