Jessie Buckley Interview For Wild Rose
98Interview with Irish actress Jessie Buckley for new country western musical Wild Rose.
There’s no stopping Irish actress Jessie Buckley’s rise to the top. She's come a long way since being discovered by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber on a TV talent show. The Kerry native was recently picked as a BAFTA rising star and this month she's winning rave reviews for WILD ROSE. A movie about a young woman desperate to break into the country music scene, much to the chagrin of her mother, played by Julie Walters.
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Jessie Buckley is an Irish singer and actress, who came second in the BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything in 2008, and subsequently played Anne Egermann in the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. She has achieved Grade eight in piano, clarinet and harp with the Royal Irish Academy of Music. She is also a member of the Tipperary Millennium Orchestra. Buckley also attended The Association of Irish Musical Societies (AIMS) workshops during the summer, to help improve her singing and acting; it was where she was then recognised as a talented actress and was encouraged to apply for Drama School in London.
Other movie roles include BEAST, Red Light, Taboo, War & Peace, The Last Post and more...
Coming Up Jessie Buckley will star in Ironbark, The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, Chernobyl (for HBO), Judy, Misbehaviour , A battle in Waterloo, I'm Thinking of Ending Things and more