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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RevenueActing
Primarily2026 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