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Jessie Buckley (born December 28, 1989) is an Irish actress and singer. The accolades she has received include a Laurence Olivier Award and nominations for an Academy Award and three BAFTA Awards.

Buckley began her career in 2008 as a contestant on the BBC TV talent show I'd Do Anything, in which she came second. A RADA graduate, her early onscreen appearances were in BBC television series, such as War & Peace (2016) and Taboo (2017). Buckley made her film debut playing the lead role in Beast (2017) and had her breakthrough starring in the musical film Wild Rose (2018). Her performance as an aspiring country music singer in the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Buckley's career progressed with starring roles in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), season four of Fargo (2020), The Lost Daughter (2021), Men (2022) and Women Talking (2022). Her performance in The Lost Daughter earned her nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Buckley's portrayal of Sally Bowles in a 2021 West End theatre revival of Cabaret won her the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. 

In 2022, she released the collaborative album For All Our Days That Tear the Heart with Bernard Butler, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Mercury Prize.

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From Killarney, Ireland

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2026 The Bride! as The Bride

2025 Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare

2025 Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story as Self

2024 Three Hares as Narrator

2024 The Cable That Changed the World as Self - Narrator (voice)

2024 Quintessentially Irish as Self

2024 Wicked Little Letters as Rose Gooding

2023 Fingernails as Anna

2022 Women Talking as Mariche

2022 Scrooge: A Christmas Carol as Isabel Fezziwig (voice)

2022 Men as Harper

2021 The Lost Daughter as Young Leda Caruso

2021 Romeo & Juliet as Juliet

2020 I'm Thinking of Ending Things as Young Woman

2020 Misbehaviour as Jo Robinson

2020 The Courier as Sheila Wynne

2020 Dolittle as Queen Victoria

2019 Judy as Rosalyn Wilder

2019 A Battle In Waterloo as Ellen

2019 Chernobyl as Lyudmilla Ignatenko

2019 Wild Rose as Rose-Lynn Harlan

2018 Pulsar as Cassa

2018 Beast as Moll Huntford

2017 Red Light as Prostitute

2016 The Complete Walk: Romeo and Juliet as Juliet

2015 Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale as Perdita

2014 The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe as Miranda

2012 Crosswinds

2010 Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret

Genres

7.01 Comedy 5

6.94 Fantasy 4

6.78 Animation 1

6.75 Music 2

6.69 Mystery 3

6.69 Family 2

6.60 Adventure 1

6.58 Thriller 3

6.54 Crime 1

6.43 History 5

6.32 Drama 18

6.22 Documentary 2

6.00 Romance 4

6.00 War 1

5.66 Horror 3

5.10 Science Fiction 2