Jessie Buckley is one step closer to Oscar glory.
On Jan. 11, the Irish rising star picked up best actress in a drama at the Golden Globes for “Hamnet,” besting an incredible lineup of actresses that includes Renate Reinsve (“Sentimental Value”) and Jennifer Lawrence (“Die My Love”). Combined with her Critics Choice Awards win for best actress earlier this month, she is now all but guaranteed to earn an Oscar nomination on Jan. 22.
“This is not a normal feeling or situation to be in,” Buckley said in her speech, noting the diversity of the film’s cast and crew: Irish lead actors, a Chinese director (Chloé Zhao) and mostly Polish crew. She gave a particular shout-out to a Polish crew member who would make meat-and-potato soup in between takes.
“It was delicious,” Buckley said with a laugh. “Thank you for bringing your pot to set!”
The actress also thanked her husband, Eddie, “who has really been enjoying the free cocktails,” as well as her fellow nominees in the category: “Julia Roberts, you are a hero to us all!”
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Buckley, 36, started her career nearly two decades ago on the BBC musical talent show “I’d Do Anything,” in which she competed for the role of Nancy in a London revival of “Oliver!”
But it wasn’t until a decade later that she started to gain critical attention for her film breakthrough in 2018’s “Wild Rose,” which she followed with similarly acclaimed turns in “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” “Women Talking” and HBO miniseries “Chernobyl.”
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Although Buckley is a first-time Globe nominee for “Hamnet,” she was previously nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar in 2022 for motherhood drama “The Lost Daughter,” co-starring Olivia Colman.
In “Hamnet,” the actress plays the mystical, earthy wife Agnes to Paul Mescal’s brooding playwright William Shakespeare. Oscar winner Zhao (“Nomadland”) directs the historical fiction drama, which follows the couple’s experience with grief and healing over the loss of a child (Jacobi Jupe).
“I’m interested in the bits of being a woman that are culturally kept hidden away. I want to bring those to the surface,” Buckley told USA TODAY last fall.
Agnes “goes on such a heightened journey when life is too much. To lose your child is such an unimaginable possibility that I can’t fathom. There’s nothing beyond how that must feel, and she went through all of it.”
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Jessie Buckley wins best actress Golden Globe Award for ‘Hamnet’