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From talent show to leading lady, the rise of Jessie Buckleypublished at 20:49 GMT<\/p>\n

20:49 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Rachel Flynn
Live reporter<\/p>\n

\"JessieImage caption, <\/p>\n

Jessie competing in I’d Do Anything in 2008, a competition to find a Nancy for Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s West End production of Oliver<\/p>\n

If you think you recognise Bafta-winner Jessie Buckley from somewhere, but you can’t quite put your finger on where, cast your mind back to 2008 – and Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s talent competition I’d Do Anything. <\/p>\n

She came second in the show to become Nancy and has since become a Hollywood star. <\/p>\n

After turning down the role of Nancy’s understudy, she told Vogue that she struggled in the early part of her career.<\/p>\n

“I was just lost. When you’re told, culturally, in different ways, that you have to kind of mould yourself into a shape that doesn’t naturally fit you, in some ways you incubate that messaging and then it becomes self-destructive,” she said. <\/p>\n

“Once I realised that, my life goal has been to unravel myself from the sort of miseducation, from stories that don’t actually serve me, and just find life,” Jessie added. <\/p>\n

She began on the stage, and then starred in hit TV shows – including the BBC’s War & Peace, Chernobyl and Fargo. Buckley received her first Oscar nomination after starring as a younger version of Olivia Coleman’s character in The Lost Daughter in 2021.<\/p>\n

The same year, her portrayal of Sally Bowles in a West End revival of Cabaret in 2021 won her the prestigious Olivier award.<\/p>\n

Critics have called her performance in Hamnet “one of those performances that is for the ages” and “nothing less than magical”.<\/p>\n

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