{"id":304959,"date":"2026-02-22T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/304959\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:19:08","slug":"jessie-buckley-wins-best-actress-at-2026-baftas-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/304959\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessie Buckley wins best actress at 2026 Baftas \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Irish actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jessie-buckley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jessie-buckley\/\">Jessie Buckley<\/a> has won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bafta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bafta\/\">Bafta<\/a>) leading actress prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The star of Hamnet took home the award for her role as Agnes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/chloe-zhao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/chloe-zhao\">Chlo\u00e9 Zhao<\/a>-directed film following a ceremony Southbank Centre\u2019s Royal Festival Hall in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/london\/\">London<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Buckley\u2019s Bafta is the latest win for the Kerry actor this awards season, having most recently picked up best actress statuette at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-film-television-awards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-film-television-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Film and Television Academy Awards<\/a> in Dublin on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Her Hamnet co-star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/paul-mescal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/paul-mescal\">Paul Mescal<\/a> was nominated for the supporting actor award but lost out to Sean Penn for his role in One Battle After Another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The film Hamnet also won outstanding British film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">More to follow &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish actor Jessie Buckley has won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) leading actress prize.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153173,17400,146,85,46,28402,442],"class_list":{"0":"post-304959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-baftas","9":"tag-chloe-zhao","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-jessie-buckley","14":"tag-london"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}