Jessie Buckley is "honoured" to be nominated for this year's Oscars.
The actress received a nod for the Best Actress category, for her role as William Shakespeare's wife Agnes Hathaway in Hamnet, directed by Chloé Zhao, and based on Maggie O'Farrell's best selling novel of the same name.
Speaking afterwards, Jessie Buckley said that she was "proud" to receive a nomination in the Best Actress category. Should she win, the Killarney native would become the first Irish woman to triumph in this category.
"I’m so proud and honoured to be beside all those extraordinary women and to be there with Hamnet. I’m delighted", she said.
Buckley's co star on Hamnet, Paul Mescal missed out on an nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category.
In the same interview, Buckley was full of praise for Mescal for his performance in the movie, hailing him as "extraordinary" despite his omission.
"I think he’s extraordinary in this film. I know I’ve met a partner for life in doing this with him", Buckley said. "I don’t know what to say apart from he is, to me, my absolute. His artistry is something that will continue to grow and be a theme in so many different ways".
Buckley added: "I know what we created together is something that’s so special to us, and I hold that so dearly in my heart, and there’s no part of Agnes that exists without Paul".
"So, what is recognised belongs to him as much as him being recognised in his own category would".
Other Irish interest at the Oscars sees Retirement Plan and Irish animator Richard Baneham also received an Oscars nod for his work on Avatar: Fire and Ash. Baneham who is already a double Oscar winner for his work on Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water, was nominated in the Visual Effects category for his latest work.
The Academy Awards ceremony will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, hosted by Conan O'Brien on March 15. More on this here.
