Jessie Buckley
Irish actress and singer · Ireland · On the map · Actors · Born 1989 · age 36
Jessie Buckley came second on a BBC talent show in 2008, trained at RADA, and seventeen years later collected an Oscar for playing Shakespeare's wife in Hamnet - a trajectory from reality TV runner-up to Best Actress that few actors have traveled.
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The Bride!Film, 2026Ida / The Bride / Mary Shelley2025
Variety & CNN Actors on ActorsSeries
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien StoryFilm, 20252024
Quintessentially IrishFilm2023
FingernailsFilm, Anna2022Laurence Olivier AwardsAward
MenFilm, 2022Harper2021
National Theatre Live: Romeo and JulietFilm, Juliet2020
DolittleFilm, Queen Victoria2019
ChernobylSeries, Lyudmilla Ignatenko
A Battle in WaterlooFilm, 2019Ellen2018British Independent Film AwardsAward
BeastFilm, 2018Moll Huntford2017
TabooSeries, Lorna Bow
Red LightFilm, 2017Kelly2016
The Complete Walk: Romeo and JulietFilm, Juliet2015
The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSeries
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's TaleFilm, 2015Perdita2014
The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's GlobeFilm, Miranda2013
EndeavourSeries, Kitty Batten2012
Join My BandFilm, Stella2008
I'd Do AnythingSeries, Herself - Potential Nancy2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!Series1995
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRASeries1989Born28 December 1989People around Jessie
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Olivia Colman Produced Wicked Little Letters (2024)
Cate Blanchett Produced Fingernails (2023)
Maggie Gyllenhaal Directed The Bride! and The Lost Daughter
Hildur Guðnadóttir Duets: The Bride! (2026)
Tom Harper Directed War and Peace and Wild Rose
Charlie Kaufman Directed I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Josh O'Connor Also in Romeo & Juliet
Steven Spielberg Produced Hamnet (2026)
Brad Pitt Produced Women Talking (2023)
Frances McDormand Produced Women Talking (2023)
Chloé Zhao Directed Hamnet (2026)
Max Richter Wrote Hamnet and Taboo
Ralph Ineson Also in Chernobyl and Dolittle
Johnny Flynn Also in Beast and Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
Andrew Davies Produced War and Peace (2016)
Luke Thompson Also in Misbehaviour (2020)
Emma Tillinger Koskoff Produced The Bride! (2026)
Philippa Lowthorpe Directed Misbehaviour (2020)
Pippa Harris Produced Hamnet (2026)
Dominic Cooke Directed The Courier (2021)- Antonina Shuranova Duets: Marya Bolkonskaya
Susan Denberg Duets: Bride of Frankenstein
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Hamnet 2025
The Courier 2020
Wicked Little Letters 2024
Women Talking 2022
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol 2022
Filmography 32
57 credits on file
Television 24
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About this person
Born 28 December 1989, Buckley is Irish, a singer as well as an actor, and she entered the industry through I'd Do Anything, the 2008 BBC competition where she finished second. After RADA and early roles in War & Peace and Taboo, she led Beast in 2017 and broke through as an aspiring country singer in Wild Rose the next year, earning a BAFTA nomination. The Lost Daughter in 2021 brought her first Oscar nomination for supporting work as a troubled mother, and she carried Chernobyl, Fargo, and Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things in the same stretch. In 2021 her Sally Bowles in the West End Cabaret won the Olivier, and in 2022 she released For All Our Days That Tear the Heart with Bernard Butler, shortlisted for the Mercury Prize. Playing Agnes Shakespeare in Hamnet delivered the sweep in 2025 - Golden Globe, BAFTA, Actor Award, Academy Award for Best Actress - and completed the arc from talent-show contender to the top of the profession.
