Jessie Buckley is an Irish actress born on December 28, 1989 in Killarney, Ireland.
Having performed in music and theatre since childhood, she got her start on the British talent show I'd Do Anything and eventually finished in second place.
She turned to acting after this, largely doing theatre in Britain before being cast as Marya Bolkonskaya in War And Peace. Following this, she led the film Beast and had strong supporting roles in Judy and Chernobyl, but it was her critically-acclaimed turn as a temperamental wannabe country singer in Wild Rose that solidified her as a star on the rise. She also appeared in the fourth season of Fargo, and was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in The Lost Daughter. She later won an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as "Sally Bowles" in the London revival of Cabaret.
Filmography:
Film
- Beast (2017): Moll Huntford
- Wild Rose (2018): Rose-Lynn Harlan
- Judy (2019): Rosalyn Wilder
- Dolittle (2020): Queen Victoria
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020): the young woman
- The Courier (2020): Sheila Wynne
- The Lost Daughter (2021): Young Leda
- Men (2022): Harper
- Women Talking (2022): Mariche
- Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022): Isabel Fezziwig (voice role)
- Fingernails (2023): Anna
- The Bride (2025): The Bride
Live-Action TV
- War And Peace (2016): Princess Marya Bolkonskaya
- Taboo (2017): Lorna Bow
- The Last Post (2017): Honor Martin
- The Woman in White (2018): Marian Halcombe
- Chernobyl (2019): Lyudmila Ignatenko
- Fargo: Season Four (2020): Oraetta Mayflower
Audio Play
- Big Finish Doctor Who:
- "The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure" (2015) — Lina
- The Diary of River Song: "The Eye of the Storm" (2016) — Sarah Dean / Speravore Queen
- The Early Adventures: "The Wreck of the World" (2017) — Commander Lorne
- 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (2018) — Annabella
Theatre
- Romeo and Juliet (2021note ): Juliet Capulet
- Cabaret (2021): Sally Bowles
Video Game
- The Devil in Me (2022): Kate Wilder
Tropes applying to her work:
- Fake Nationality: In most of her roles; she rarely gets to play her own nationality. She has played a wide array of fake nationalities, including:
- Fake American in Fargo: Season Four.
- Fake Brit in many of her roles, including Beast, Taboo, The Last Post, The Woman in White and Dolittle.
- Fake Russian in War And Peace.
- Fake Scot in Wild Rose.
- Fake Soviet Ukrainian in Chernobyl.
- Romance on the Set: Was in a relationship with James Norton following War and Peace, but they have since split.
- The Runner-Up Takes It All: For her stint on I'd Do Anything. The winner, Jodie Prenger, has largely disappeared, but Buckley went to drama school afterwards, did well-reviewed theatre, and broke into film and television.
