{"id":241635,"date":"2026-01-12T21:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/241635\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:59:14","slug":"from-tv-talent-show-runner-up-to-golden-globes-winner-who-is-jessie-buckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/241635\/","title":{"rendered":"From TV talent show runner-up to Golden Globes winner: Who is Jessie Buckley?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kerry-born actress, 36, portrays William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes – historically known as Anne – in the film adaptation of Maggie O Farrell’s Hamnet, which follows the pair as they deal with the grief of losing their son.<\/p>\n

Her emotional performance has placed her at the heart of this year’s award season, which kicked off with her best actress win at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards<\/a>, followed by nominations for the Actor Awards, formerly the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Baftas.<\/p>\n

She has also been tipped as a leading contender for the Oscars, with nominations yet to be announced.<\/p>\n

\"JessieJessie Buckley poses in the press room with the award for best performance by a female actor in a motion picture for ‘Hamnet’. Picture: AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello<\/p>\n

Born in Killarney, Buckley spent five years studying at an all-girls convent school and attended Fiona Crowley Stage School, along with Killarney Musical Society, where she won an AIMS award for Best Actress.<\/p>\n

She went on to join the BBC talent show I’d Do Anything in 2008, aged 17.<\/p>\n

The show documented the search for a new lead to play Nancy in the West End revival of the musical Oliver!, with Buckley ending as runner-up, losing out to Coronation Street star Jodie Prenger.<\/p>\n

She went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (Rada) in London and graduated with a BA in acting in 2013.<\/p>\n

Her stage career kicked off that same year with the star performing at Shakespeare’s Globe in a production of The Tempest before starring alongside The Holiday actor, Jude Law, in a West End production of Henry V.\n <\/p>\n

Buckley later starred in the TV series adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace in 2016, portraying Marya Bolkonskaya, and made her film debut a year later in Michael Pearce’s psychological thriller Beast alongside Emma actor Johnny Flynn.<\/p>\n

She later starred in Wild Rose (2018), a coming-of-age musical drama about a troubled single mother of two and former convict, Rose-Lynn from Glasgow, who tries to follow her dream of becoming a country singer – a role which won her the 2019 Scottish Bafta for best actress.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Buckley starred alongside Jesse Plemons in the psychological thriller I’m Thinking Of Ending Things where a visit to her boyfriend’s secluded family farm changes everything she thought she knew about him.<\/p>\n

\"JessieJessie Buckley through the years.<\/p>\n

She also has a string of TV credits, including playing Lyudmilla Ignatenko in the 2019 HBO drama Chernobyl and later starring in the hit series Fargo as Oraetta Mayflower.<\/p>\n

Her film credits include starring in The Lost Daughter (2021) alongside Olivia Coleman, a role which scored her first Oscar nod for best supporting actress, and the period drama Women Talking (2022) alongside The Crown actress Claire Foy about the true story of a group of women who begin to realise the extent of the sexual abuse they have endured by the men in their religious community after they start sharing their experiences.<\/p>\n

More recently, Buckley reunited with Coleman in 2023’s Wicked Little Letters and starred alongside Four Lions star Riz Ahmed and The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White in the sci-fi romance Fingernails about a woman who begins to question her relationship despite a controversial test result certifying them as a perfect match.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Buckley won the Laurence Olivier Award for best actress in a musical for her portrayal of Sally Bowles in Cabaret.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kerry-born actress, 36, portrays William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes – historically known as Anne – in the film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5658,98266,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-241635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-irish-examiner-instagram","tag-golden-globes","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}