Jessie Buckley
Birthday: 1989-12-28 | Place of Birth: Killarney, IrelandJessie Buckley (born 28 December 1989) is an Irish actress and singer. Her accolades include Best Actress at the Oscar Academy Awards 2026 (becoming the first Irish woman to win it), a British Academy Film Award, an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Scottish BAFTA, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards. 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 an 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Betty O'Barley (voice)
as Ida Bolinski / The Bride / Mary Shelley
as Agnes
as Photographer
as Narrator
as Rose Gooding
as Self
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Anna
as Harper
as Isabel Fezziwig (voice)
as Mariche
as Juliet
as Sally Bowles
as Sheila Wynne
as Young Leda Caruso
as Jo Robinson
as Queen Victoria
as Young Woman
as Lyudmilla Ignatenko
as Rosalyn Wilder
as Rose-Lynn Harlan
as Cassa
as Marian Halcombe
as Moll Huntford
as Honor Martin
as Kelly
as Lorna Bow
as Lorna Bow
