11 h. ago ‘She will go down as one of the best’: the rise of Jessie Buckley

From talent shows to the big screen, the actor’s performance in Hamnet has made her a leading awards contenderHamnet, Chloé Zhao’s film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel about William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes (or Anne) Hathaway, is a tender meditation on love and grief. Charting the couple’s anguish over the death of their 11-year-old son – said to have inspired the play Hamlet – it has moved audiences to tears and united critics in their praise.The film’s emotional force is carried by the Irish actor and singer Jessie Buckley, who portrays Hathaway (opposite Paul Mescal’s Shakespeare) with a rawness and intimacy that has already earned her a Critics’ Circle award for best actress, and marked her out as a leading contender for the Golden Globes, Baftas and Oscars. The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw called her “unselfconsciously beguiling”, while Rolling Stone predicted audiences “will be talking about Jessie Buckley’s performance for years”. Continue rea...

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21 h. ago Hamnet felt like a 'sure thing' says Scottish actor who performed alongside Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal

Hamnet will be released on Friday

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3 d. ago Hamnet review: Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley enthral in Shakespeare tearjerker

Chloé Zhao’s clever adaptation grounds the Bard’s backstory in love, loss and the natural world

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3 d. ago Hamnet review – Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley beguile and captivate in audacious Shakespearean tragedy

Chloé Zhao’s film version of Maggie O’Farrell’s myth-making novel powerfully reimagines the agonising loss of a child as the source of Hamlet’s grand stage drama‘The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears ” This is Francis Bacon’s essay Of Parents and Children; maybe they were more secret in his day than ours. This kind of secrecy and revelation is part of Chloé Zhao’s deeply felt romantic fantasy about the origin of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. It locates the play’s beginning in the imagined anguish of Shakespeare and his wife Agnes (or Anne) Hathaway at the death of their son Hamnet at the age of 11 in 1596, a few years before the play’s first performance.The nearness of the names is not supposed to be some monumental Freudian slip; there is linguistic evidence that the two could be used interchangeably. The movie is inspired by Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel of the same name – Zhao co-wrote the screenplay with O’Farrell – as well as the 2004 essay T...

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4 d. ago Jessie Buckley sets pulses racing with comment about Paul Mescal at Critics Choice Awards

Irish actors co-star in Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ adaptation

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4 d. ago Jessie Buckley makes Paul Mescal cry with Critics Choice speech: ‘I could drink you like water’

Paul Mescal became emotional during Jessie Buckley’s Critics Choice Awards speech, where she paid tribute to her Hamnet co-star.

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4 d. ago Jessie Buckley makes Paul Mescal cry as she showers her Hamnet co

Jessie Buckley had a night to remember on Sunday, scooping a surprise win at the star-studded Critics Choice Awards.

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6 d. ago Hamnet star EMILY WATSON discusses growing up in a 'religious sect', working with Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, and the role she regrets turning down

After a 30-year career EMILY WATSON has landed a starring role in the most talked-about film of 2026, Hamnet. She tells Richard Godwin about co-star Paul Mescal

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1 week ago From epic love stories to blockbuster franchises: The films to watch in 2026

A look at some of the most anticipated films of 2026.

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3 w. ago Paul Mescal Joins Chloe Zhao & Jessie Buckley at ‘Hamnet’ Photography Exhibition in London

Paul Mescal Joins Chloe Zhao & Jessie Buckley at ‘Hamnet’ Photography Exhibition in London  Just Jared

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3 w. ago Anton Du Beke addresses major Strictly Come Dancing regret as he hints at new role

Strictly Come Dancing judge Anton Du Beke has been on the BBC show since its first ever episode, but the dancer still has unfulfilled ambitions due to a co-star's exit

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3 w. ago Martin Compston reveals why he nearly turned down Line of Duty role as he shares 'regrets'

The Greenock born star is set to reprise his Line of Duty role of DS Steve Arnott very soon as the show returns for its seventh season

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