If Jessie Buckley wins an Oscar tonight one of her old directors has every right to say I told you so.
Jessie, 32, nominated for best supporting actress for The Lost Daugter, is up against the likes of Judi Dench for Belfast and The Power of the Dog’s Kirsten Dunst.
But Jessie’s star quality has been clear ever since she was a child. Friends at a local theatre group said she always “stood out and gave it welly”, even in a kids’ production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
