Jessie Buckley was born on 28 December 1989 and is an Irish actress and singer.
38 Facts About Jessie Buckley
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Jessie Buckley made her film debut playing the lead role in Beast, and had her breakthrough starring in the musical film Wild Rose.
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Jessie Buckley's career progressed with starring roles in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, the thriller film I'm Thinking of Ending Things, season four of Fargo, and the drama The Lost Daughter.
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Jessie Buckley was born on 28 December 1989 in Killarney, County Kerry, the daughter of Marina Cassidy and Tim Jessie Buckley.
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Jessie Buckley's mother encouraged her to sing and coached her.
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Jessie Buckley has a younger brother and three younger sisters.
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Jessie Buckley attended Ursuline Secondary School, an all-girls convent school in Thurles, County Tipperary, where her mother works as a vocal coach and where she performed in school productions.
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Jessie Buckley played a number of male roles at school, including the male lead role of Tony in the musical West Side Story and Freddie Trumper in Chess.
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Jessie Buckley reached grade eight in piano, clarinet, and harp at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and was a member of the Tipperary Millennium Orchestra.
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Jessie Buckley attended summer workshops with the Association of Irish Musical Societies to improve her singing and acting, and it was here that she was recognised as a talented actress and encouraged to apply for drama school in London.
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Jessie Buckley reached the final on 31 May 2008, finishing in second place behind Jodie Prenger.
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On 26 August 2008, Jessie Buckley performed on Denny Street in Tralee, Kerry for RTE Radio 1.
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Jessie Buckley followed this with a performance at a charity concert in Tipperary.
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On 14 September 2008, Jessie Buckley performed at an outdoor concert in celebration of Andrew Lloyd Webber's birthday in Hyde Park, London.
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Jessie Buckley gave a solo rendition of "I Don't Know How To Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, and sang "Light at the End of the Tunnel" from Starlight Express with fellow I'd Do Anything finalists Keisha Amponsa-Banson, Niamh Perry, Rachel Tucker, as well as Any Dream Will Do finalists Daniel Boys, Lewis Bradley, Ben James-Ellis and Keith Jack.
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Jessie Buckley was offered the opportunity to understudy for the role of Nancy, but turned it down in favour of another production.
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On 10 October 2008, it was announced that Jessie Buckley would make her West End debut in a revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music, in the role of Anne Egerman, at the Menier Chocolate Factory, a fringe Studio Theatre, in London from 22 November 2008 to 8 March 2009.
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Jessie Buckley appeared alongside Maureen Lipman and Hannah Waddingham in the production, which was directed by Trevor Nunn.
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In January 2013, Jessie Buckley graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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In September 2013, Jessie Buckley appeared opposite Jude Law in Michael Grandage's West End production of Henry V at the Noel Coward Theatre.
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Jessie Buckley played Perdita in Kenneth Branagh's theatre company production of The Winter's Tale, which was streamed live to cinemas worldwide on 26 November 2015.
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Jessie Buckley received acclaim for her performance, with Viv Groskop of The Guardian citing her performance as a highlight of episode two, writing that she plays this supposedly plain and pious character "beautifully".
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Jessie Buckley continued her television career with a main role in the drama series Taboo, starring Tom Hardy.
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Jessie Buckley starred as Honor Martin in BBC One's drama The Last Post, and as Marian Halcombe in the five-part television adaptation of Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman in White.
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Jessie Buckley made her film debut as Moll Huntford in the psychological thriller Beast, for which she received great acclaim.
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Jessie Buckley then starred in the country music drama Wild Rose, which earned Buckley the opportunity to perform music from the film at the Glastonbury Festival.
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In 2019, Jessie Buckley appeared as Lyudmilla Ignatenko in the HBO and Sky UK historical drama mini-series Chernobyl, which revolved around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the clean-up efforts that followed.
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Jessie Buckley then appeared in the biographical drama Judy, based on the life of American actress Judy Garland.
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In 2021, Jessie Buckley starred as the younger version of Leda Caruso in Maggie Gyllenhaal's feature directorial debut The Lost Daughter, with Olivia Colman portraying the character's older counterpart.
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Critic Ty Burr believed that Jessie Buckley was a "revelation" in the film.
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Jessie Buckley received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 94th Academy Awards.
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In 2022, Jessie Buckley starred as a widowed woman who travels on holiday to a countryside village in Alex Garland's folk horror film Men, alongside Rory Kinnear.
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In June 2021, Jessie Buckley joined Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Ben Whishaw in the filming of Sarah Polley's feature adaptation of Miriam Toews' bestselling novel Women Talking, with MGM's Orion Pictures and Plan B Entertainment producing the film.
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In July 2022, Jessie Buckley joined Colman, Luke Evans, Jonathan Pryce and Johnny Flynn in Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, an animated rendition of the Charles Dickens' classic, which was released on Netflix in December 2022.
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Jessie Buckley reunited with Olivia Colman in Wicked Little Letters, a comedy directed by Thea Sharrock.
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In May 2022, it was announced that Jessie Buckley would replace Carey Mulligan as the lead in Christos Nikou's English-language feature film debut Fingernails.
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Jessie Buckley is set to star in Rebecca Lenkiewicz's feature directing debut Hot Milk, alongside Fiona Shaw and Vicky Krieps.
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Jessie Buckley was in a relationship with actor James Norton between 2015 and 2017.