Age: 36
female
Jessie Buckley (born 28 December 1989) is an Irish actress and singer. Her accolades include Best Actress at the Oscar Academy Awards 2026 (becoming the first Irish woman to win it), a British Academy Film Award, an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Scottish BAFTA, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards. Buckley began her career in 2008 as a contestant on the BBC talent show I'd Do Anything, in which she came second. A RADA graduate, her early onscreen appearances were in BBC television series such as War & Peace (2016) and Taboo (2017). Buckley made her film debut with the lead role in Beast (2017), followed by her breakout role as an aspiring country music singer in the musical film Wild Rose (2018); the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Buckley's career progressed with starring roles in films such as I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), Men (2022), Women Talking (2022) and Wicked Little Letters (2023). For her performance as a troubled mother in the psychological drama The Lost Daughter (2021), she received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She gained further recognition for her portrayal of Agnes Shakespeare in the period drama Hamnet (2025), receiving a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, an Actor Award and an Academy Award for Best Actress. On television, Buckley has starred in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019) and season four of Fargo (2020). On stage, Buckley's portrayal of Sally Bowles in a 2021 West End theatre revival of Cabaret won her the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. In 2022, she released the collaborative album For All Our Days That Tear the Heart with Bernard Butler, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Mercury Prize. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessie Buckley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jessie Buckley
Elena Grebova
for Elena Grebova in Papers, Please.
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In the winter of 1982, Anton Grebov, a quiet factory worker in the oppressive state of Arstotzka, is reassigned by government lottery to serve as an immigration inspector at a newly opened border checkpoint. What begins as a monotonous job — checking passports, verifying documents, and stamping approvals — quickly unravels into a daily test of loyalty, morality, and survival. As the regime tightens control, rules change without warning, and the line outside grows longer with desperate refugees, smugglers, spies, and innocents fleeing violence. Some offer bribes. Others bring secrets. A few might be terrorists. Ezic, a shadowy revolutionary group, reaches out to Anton with cryptic messages and dangerous choices. His every decision is monitored. His mistakes are punished. His family — a sick daughter, a fragile wife — relies on his paycheck, even as the cost of obedience grows unbearable. With the fate of strangers in his hands and his own family’s safety hanging by a thread, Anton must decide what kind of man he is: a loyal servant of the state, a silent rebel, or something in between. Every stamp is a sentence. Every choice has a price. Glory to Arstotzka.
