Jessie Buckley
Jessie Buckley is an Irish actress and singer. A Royal Academy of Dramatic Art graduate, she began her career in 2008 as a contestant on the BBC TV talent show I'd Do Anything, in which she came second. The recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and three BAFTA Awards, she was listed at number 38 on The Irish Times' list of Ireland's greatest film actors of all time, in 2020. Her early onscreen appearances include portrayals in BBC television series, such as Marya Bolkonskaya in the 2016 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, Lorna Bow in Taboo (2017) and Marian Halcombe in The Woman in White (2018). Buckley made her film debut playing the lead role of Moll Huntford in Beast (2017). Her other roles include Rose-Lynn Harlan in Wild Rose (2018), for which she received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Lyudmilla Ignatenko in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019), the Young Woman in I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), Oraetta Mayflower in season four of Fargo (2020) and young Leda in The Lost Daughter (2021). Her performance in the latter earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2019, she was recognized by Forbes in its annual 30 under 30 list. Buckley starred as Sally Bowles in a West End revival of Cabaret in 2021, for which she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · The Bride! as The Bride
- 2024 · Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story as Self
- 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 · The Woman in White as Marian Halcombe
- 2018 · Beast as Moll Huntford
- 2017 · The Last Post as Honor Martin
- 2017 · Red Light as Prostitute
- 2017 · Taboo as Lorna Bow
- 2016 · The Complete Walk: Romeo and Juliet as Juliet
- 2016 · War and Peace as Marya Bolkonskaya
- 2015 · Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale as Perdita
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- 2014 · The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe as Miranda
- 2014 · Fargo as Oraetta Mayflower
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2013 · Endeavour as Kitty Batten
- 2012 · Crosswinds as
- 2010 · Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret as
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2002 · Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway as Self
- 1971 · Great Performances as Juliet
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 2024 · Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare