Jessie Buckley, who is winning praise for her role in Hamnet, moved to the county in 2020 with her now husband.
She was originally planning to relocate to Suffolk, but decided on Norfolk after finding an “amazing old house”.
Jessie Buckley at Shakespeare’s Globe in London (Image: IAN WEST)
The 36-year-old, who is from Killarney in Ireland, has now revealed more about her life in Norfolk during an interview with Vogue.
Buckley spoke about her “timber-framed, 16th-century manor among the marsh sluices and stone windmills of the Norfolk fens” and her friendship with Olivia Colman.
The pair met at the 2019 edition of Wilderness Festival and went on to co-star in The Lost Daughter in 2021.
The mother-of-one divulged that she and Norfolk native Colman enjoy “walking and eating” their way around the county.
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley who are both in Hamnet (Image: David Parry/PA Wire)
Colman, who considers Buckley “a friend for life”, is from Norwich and studied at Gresham’s School in Holt.
Buckley previously spoke about love for Norfolk during an appearance on the Table Manners podcast.
“We were going to move to Suffolk, where we’d fallen in love, and then friends of ours had moved to Norfolk,” she said.
“They showed us this house that was from like the 1500s and falling down and orange.
Olivia Colman is from Norwich and studied at Gresham’s School in Holt (Image: Lucy North)
“It’s a really amazing old house that’s been there forever.”
Buckley married her husband Freddie, who she keeps private, at the house in 2023.
The Irish actress, who first found fame on the BBC’s I’d Do Anything, has now been nominated for another prestigious award following her triumph at the Critics’ Choice Awards.
She is up for female actor in a leading role at the Actor Awards, formerly the Screen Actors Guild Awards, for her performance in Hamnet.
In the historical drama, she portrays William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes Hathaway, which is based on Irish author Maggie O’Farrell’s novel of the same name.