Did Jessie Buckley play Nancy?

Jessie Buckley did not get to play Nancy. But even if she had, her eventual career would have turned it into a mere footnote. Theater productions turned into dramas on the BBC, which turned into plum movie roles and critical acclaim.

What is Jessie Buckley famous for?

Jessie Buckley is an Irish singer and actress, who came in second place in the BBC talent show-themed television series I’d Do Anything, and subsequently played Anne Egermann in the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music.

Did Jessie Buckley do her own singing in Wild Rose?

And yet, she absolutely blew me away, both as an actress and as a musician, since she does her own singing in Wild Rose — just like Taron Egerton as Elton John in Rocketman, though she seems to have received a fraction of the credit. Like many actors, Buckley got her start doing musical theater in grade school.