8 h. ago Adolescence's Owen Cooper, Jessie Buckley and Aimee Lou Wood lead the British and Irish hopes at the 2026 SAG Awards as nominations are announced

Owen Cooper and the cast of Adolescence are once again leading the British and Irish hopes during the 2026 awards season.

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24 h. ago Jessie Buckley scores Actor Award nod after Critics Choice Awards triumph

The 36-year-old received a nod for her role as William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes Hathaway – historically known as Anne – in historical drama Hamnet.

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32 h. ago Jessie Buckley says she was 'brutalised' on Andrew Lloyd Webber reality show

The West End actress finished in second place on the show which saw contestants compete to win the role of Nancy in the West End production of hit musical Oliver!

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33 h. ago Jessie Buckley says she was ‘brutalised’ on Andrew Lloyd Webber reality show I’d Do Anything

‘Hamnet’ star hit out at BBC series for ‘unfairly objectifying’ her when she was just 17

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33 h. ago Jessie Buckley says she was 'brutalised' and experienced 'unfair objectification' as a teen on Andrew Lloyd Webber's TV talent show I'd Do Anything

The actress, 36, launched her career in 2008 as a contestant on the reality show which was a competition to win the role of Nancy in a West End production of hit musical Oliver!

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35 h. ago Jessie Buckley says she was 'brutalised' during her stint on Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'bonkers' TV talent show I'd Do Anything

The actress, 36, launched her career in 2008 as a contestant on the reality show which was a competition to win the role of Nancy in a West End production of hit musical Oliver!

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51 h. ago Jessie Buckley had the ‘deep need’ to become a mother after filming Hamnet

The 36-year-old admitted that embodying a mother mourning the loss of a child made her feel drawn to becoming a parent.

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54 h. 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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55 h. ago The rise of Jessie Buckley: Why the Hamnet star is set for Oscar glory

The Irish actor has had a fascinating career since she almost won Andrew Lloyd Webber’s TV talent show as a teen

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61 h. 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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3 d. ago Timothée Chalamet and Jessie Buckley in Oscar surge as they win Critics Choice awards

The Marty Supreme and Hamnet stars are jockeying for pole position for the big Hollywood prize after a night in which One Battle After Another and Adolescence were recognisedTimothée Chalamet and Jessie Buckley have surged into serious contention for the Oscars for their roles in, respectively, Marty Supreme and Hamnet, after picking up the top prizes for acting at the Critics Choice awards on Sunday.Chalamet, who has been on a highly visible promotional tour for the film, defeated Oscar favourite Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another) in the best actor race, as well as Michael B Jordan (Sinners) and Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon). Chalamet, who plays a wannabe table-tennis champ in the early 1950s in Marty Supreme, thanked Kylie Jenner in his acceptance speech, saying: “Thank you to my partner for three years I love you. I couldn’t do this without you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.” Continue reading...

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3 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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3 d. ago Jessie Buckley's unstoppable rise from reality TV to Oscar nominee as she wins Critics Choice award after life

The Irish actress was just 18 when she appeared on BBC show I'd Do Anything in a bid to land the role of Nancy - narrowly being pipped to the post by Jodie Prenger.

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3 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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3 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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3 d. ago Jessie Buckley wins best actress and Adolescence wins four Critics Choice Awards

The ceremony, hosted this year by Chelsea Handler, honours the year’s best in film, streaming and television.

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3 d. ago Aled Jones' daughter Emilia stuns in a corset as she joins glamorous Jessie Buckley, Mia Goth and Erin Doherty leading the British and Irish stars at the Critics Choice

Aled Jones' daughter Emilia Jones wowed in a strapless corset crop top and maxi skirt as she lead the British and Irish stars at the 31st Annual Critics Choice Awards on Sunday. 

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5 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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2 w. ago Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard

The wife of William Shakespeare takes centre stage in a rich, sensitive examination of parental grief, sensitively narrated by Jessie Buckley The jury is still out on the merits of Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, which arrives in cinemas next month, but there is no arguing with the quality of the source material. Maggie O’Farrell’s lyrical and immersive novel, which won the Women’s prize in 2020, imagines the relationship between William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes Hathaway, and their grief over the death of their 11-year-old son, Hamnet, from the plague in 1596. The book opens with the young Hamnet realising his twin sister Judith is unwell and searching for an adult to attend to her, while unaware that he is the one who is fatally ill.Shakespeare – who is never named and instead referred to as “the husband” or “the father” – is depicted not as a literary superstar but a flawed man who is rarely home. The focus is on Hathaway, a free-spirited woman with deep connections to the landscape. ...

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