Everything is coming up mother for Jessie Buckley after winning the Best Actress Oscar for her spitfire role as Agnes in Focus Features’ Hamnet at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday night.
During her visit to the Oscars backstage pool, Buckley, who also made history as the first Irish actor to win Best Actress, spoke about how extremely humbling and relatable the journey of motherhood and award season has been for her.
“It feels like some kind of crazy alchemy that all of these things are colliding on a day like today,” Buckley said. “My daughter got her first tooth this week. I woke up with her lying on my chest, snuggling me. And I feel like what a gift to get to explore motherhood through this incredible mother that Agnes is, and then to become one myself and then to receive this recognition of the incredible role mothers play in our world. This day is something I will never, ever forget.”
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Prior to her Oscars win, Buckley clinched the statuettes at BAFTA, Critics Choice, the Golden Globes and The Actor Awards, formerly known as the SAG Awards.
In 2022, Buckley was nominated for her role in The Lost Daughter, reflecting on her past roles she said: “I think all my roles stay with me. I don’t ever want to let go of the incredible women that have really given me an education that I’ve been looking for as a woman. But I think this role cracked a kind of tenderness in me that sometimes if you’re a strong woman, you’re perceived as just being strong, but actually tenderness is as vibrant and strong as strength. And I think to know that through [Agnes] where she was able to hold the capacity of strength and vulnerability and tenderness and grief and love in all its epic colors, I mean, why would ever want to let that go?”