7 Jessie Buckley Performances to Watch (or Revisit) After ‘Hamnet’
This mind-melter from Charlie Kaufman centers on an enigmatic Buckley as the conflicted girlfriend of Jesse Plemons’s awkward Jake, who takes her to meet his incredibly strange parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis). All hell breaks loose, but it’s held together by her mesmeric, totally committed turn.
Fargo (2020)
In the ’50s Kansas City-set fourth season of Noah Hawley’s rip-roaring crime anthology, Buckley cuts a terrifying figure as a peppy nurse with a penchant for poison—proof she can play a delicious villain with the same flair she brings to loveable everywomen.
The Lost Daughter (2021)
Then came Buckley’s first Oscar nomination, for her sensitive, steely, and endlessly relatable take on a frazzled young mother struggling to stay afloat in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s nuanced meditation on the joys and heartbreaks of parenthood. If anyone still had any doubts about her abilities, this—a supporting part that felt seismic—was their answer.
Women Talking (2022)
