"The film's emotional force is carried by the Irish actor and singer Jessie Buckley, who portrays Hathaway (opposite Paul Mescal's Shakespeare) with a rawness and intimacy that has already earned her a Critics' Circle award for best actress, and marked her out as a leading contender for the Golden Globes, Baftas and Oscars. The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw called her unselfconsciously beguiling, while Rolling Stone predicted audiences will be talking about Jessie Buckley's performance for years."
"And their capacity as women, and as mothers, and as lovers, and as people who have a language unto their own beside gigantic men of literature like Shakespeare. That sense of Agnes as an uncontainable being finds its most devastating expression in one of the film's key scenes. When Agnes realises Hamnet has died in her arms, Buckley releases a scream so unfiltered it cuts through the film's careful quiet."
"Buckley's ability to inhabit an extremity of emotions has been honed over years on stage and screen. Born in Killarney, County Kerry, the eldest of five siblings, she attended an all-girls convent school before studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada) in London. Jessie Buckley, centre, as Agnes in Hamnet. Photograph: 2025 Focus Features/PA Her career began in 2008 as a contestant on the BBC talent show I'd Do Anything, where she competed to play Nancy in a West End adaptation of Oliver! (she finished second behind Jodie Prenger, and"
Hamnet is Chloe Zhao's film adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel about William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes (Anne) Hathaway, focusing on their anguish after the death of their 11-year-old son, said to have inspired Hamlet. Jessie Buckley portrays Agnes with rawness and intimacy, earning a Critics' Circle best actress award and strong awards season buzz. Paul Mescal plays Shakespeare. A pivotal scene captures Agnes's unfiltered scream when realizing Hamnet has died, a moment Zhao described as transcending time. Buckley's emotional range reflects stage and screen training, Irish upbringing, RADA education, and an early career beginning on BBC's I'd Do Anything.
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