Jessie Buckley

Jessie Buckley
Buckley at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival
BornDecember 1989 (age 36)
Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
EducationRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art (BA)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
Years active2008–present
Spouse
Freddie
​
(m. 2023)​
Children1
RelativesMadge Clifford (great-grandmother)

Jessie Buckley (born December 1989) is an Irish actress and singer. She won a Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Agnes Shakespeare in Hamnet (2025).

Buckley has won a Laurence Olivier Award in 2022 and a BAFTA Award for her role as Rose-Lynn Harlan in Wild Rose (2018). In 2019, Buckley appeared as Lyudmilla Ignatenko in the HBO historical drama mini-series Chernobyl.

Buckley was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as Young Leda in The Lost Daughter (2021).

Early life

Jessie Buckley was born in December 1989 in Killarney, County Kerry, to Marina (née Cassidy) and Tim Buckley. She has a younger brother and three younger sisters. She is the great-granddaughter of Irish republican Madge Clifford. Buckley studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She graduated in January 2013.

Career

In May 2023, it was announced that Buckley would star with Paul Mescal in Chloé Zhao's historical drama Hamnet. Buckley's role as Agnes Shakespeare received strong reviews. Buckley won the award for Best Actress in a Drama at the Golden Globes for the role. Buckley additionally won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the BAFTA Award, becoming the first Irish actress to win for Leading Actress at all four ceremonies. Buckley also won the Academy Award for Best Actress, the first Irish winner of that award.

Personal life

Buckley lived in Norfolk, England. She married Freddie Sorensen, a mental health worker in mid-2023. In 2025, she gave birth to their daughter.

References

  1. ↑ "Jessie Buckley Goes Where Few Actresses Dare". The New York Times. 5 August 2025.
  2. ↑ "'Hamnet' with Paul Mescal is one of the best, most gut-punching movies of the year". 2025-09-09. Retrieved 2025-09-10.
  3. ↑ Fear, David (2025-09-08). "'Hamnet' Is the Most Shattering Movie of 2025". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2025-09-10.
  4. 1 2 Murphy, Greg (9 February 2022). "Who is Jessie Buckley? Kerry star gets first Oscar nod for 'The Lost Daughter'". Irish Examiner. Archived from the original on 4 September 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022. Jessie Buckley was born in Killarney, Co Kerry, in December 1989 and is the eldest of one brother and three sisters.
  5. ↑ "Jessie Buckley's dad on her 'wonderful' Oscar nod". Rte.ie. 9 February 2022. Archived from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022. The 32-year-old Kerry star...
  6. ↑ John O'Mahony, 'Killarney saddened by passing of Dr Norrie Buckley'. Killarney Today, 21 July 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2025
  7. ↑ "Profiles". Rada.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  8. ↑ Kroll, Justin (1 May 2023). "Jessie Buckley & Paul Mescal In Talks To Star In 'Hamnet' Adaptation From Amblin Partners And Chloé Zhao". Deadline. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  9. ↑ Fear, David (2025-09-08). "'Hamnet' Is the Most Shattering Movie of 2025". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2025-09-10.
  10. ↑ "'Hamnet' with Paul Mescal is one of the best, most gut-punching movies of the year". 2025-09-09. Retrieved 2025-09-10.
  11. ↑ "Jessie Buckley's home town 'bursting with pride'". RTE News. 12 January 2026. Retrieved 13 January 2026.
  12. ↑ Lang, Brent (January 4, 2025). "Critics Choice Awards 2026: 'One Battle After Another' Wins Best Film, 'The Pitt', 'Adolescence' and 'The Studio' Dominate TV Prizes". Variety. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  13. ↑ Lee, Benjamin (2026-03-02). "Actor awards 2026: Michael B Jordan, Jessie Buckley and Catherine O'Hara among big winners". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-03-16.
  14. ↑ "Baftas 2026: Hamnet's Jessie Buckley and I Swear's Robert Aramayo win big". www.bbc.com. 2026-02-22. Retrieved 2026-03-16.
  15. ↑ "The 98th Academy Awards (2026) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Retrieved January 22, 2026.
  16. ↑ Pulver, Andrew; Shoard, Catherine (2026-03-16). "Jessie Buckley becomes first Irish winner of best actress Oscar for Hamnet". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-03-16.
  17. ↑ Lamont, Tom (20 March 2021). "Jessie Buckley on Covid filming: 'The world's greatest love scene – and we couldn't touch!'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  18. ↑ "Chernobyl star Jessie Buckley reveals she married boyfriend in secret ceremony". Independent.co.uk. 18 January 2024.
  19. ↑ "Jessie Buckley welcomes first child after 'secret' pregnancy". The Mirror. 2025-12-19. Retrieved 2026-01-11.
  20. ↑ "Jessie Buckley Goes Where Few Actresses Dare". The New York Times. 5 August 2025.

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