Jessie Buckley

Jessie Buckley (born 28 December 1989) is an Irish singer and actress. Her career began in 2008 as a contestant on BBC TV talent show I\'d Do Anything in which she placed second. In the same year she appeared as Anne Egermann in the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim\'s A Little Night Music. After some other theatre roles she suspended her professional career to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and graduated in September 2013.\n', ' In 2016 Buckley appeared on four BBC television series, as Marya Bolkonskaya in BBC\'s adaptation of Leo Tolstoy\'s War and Peace, as Lorna Bow in Taboo, as Honor Martin in The Last Post, and as Marian Halcombe in The Woman in White. Buckley has taken the starring role in two films; Beast in 2017 and musical drama Wild Rose in 2018, for which she received critical acclaim. In 2019, Buckley played Lyudmilla Ignatenko in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, and she was recognized by Forbes in its annual "Thirty Under 30" list of "disrupters" and "trailblazers."\n', ' Buckley was born in Killarney, County Kerry, the eldest of five children. Her mother, Marina Cassidy, encouraged her to sing and coached her. She has a brother and three sisters. Buckley went to 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. She played a number of male roles at school, including the male lead role of Jets gang founder Tony in the musical West Side Story and Freddie Trumper in Chess.\n', '