Jessie Buckley dedicates her win to ‘the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart’published at 02:47 GMT
02:47 GMT
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
Jessie Buckley won for role in Hamnet, playing Agnes, the wife of William Shakespeare, and she laughed and cried as she collected her award.
Thanking the “incredible women I stand beside” – her fellow nominees – she said: “I am inspired by your heart and I want to work with every single one of you.”
She went on to thank her parents for “teaching us to dream and to carve from your own passion,” before thanking her husband Freddie Sorensen, saying he is her best friend, an “incredible Dad” and “I want to have 20,000 more babies with you”.
She added that their eight-month-old daughter Isla was probably unaware, asleep and “dreaming of milk”.
Buckley thanked director Chloé Zhao and writer Maggie O’Farrell, thanking them for “letting me know this incandescent woman and journey to understand the capacity of a mother’s love”.
“It’s Mother’s Day in the UK today, so I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart.”
“We all come from a lineage of women who continue to create against all odds – thank you for recognising me in this role,” she added.