skip to main content

Irish actress Jessie Buckley reveals she got married last year

Jessie Buckley reveals she got married to English boyfriend Freddie last year
Jessie Buckley reveals she got married to English boyfriend Freddie last year

Jessie Buckley has revealed that she and her partner Freddie got married at their home in Norfolk last year.

Appearing on singer Jessie Ware's Table Manners podcast, which she produces with her mother, Lennie, Oscar-nominated Irish actress Buckley said that she and Freddie had tied the knot last summer.

When Buckley was asked if her parents minded that she married an Englishman, she laughed and said: "I moved to London when I was 17 and anytime I brought an English boyfriend back to Ireland, my granny would call him Séamus, whatever his name was. 'How are you Séamus?’... Freddie stayed Freddie. I don’t know why she did it, maybe she couldn’t remember!"

Kerry-born Buckley said that the couple have a flat in Dalston, East London, and have also bought a house in Norfolk, which she described as their "heart home".

"We probably split 50/50 between them at the moment. But we've only been there [in Norfolk] for three years," she said.

Asked why they decided to move to Norfolk, she replied: "I'd never been there. We were originally going to move to Suffolk because we’d fallen in love there.

"Then friends of ours had moved to Norfolk and bought this old place for like nothing at an auction, pulled the weeds out of it and just did the whole thing up.

"And then they showed us the house that we [now] live in, which is [from the] 1500s and falling down... it's a really amazing old house that’s been there forever."

Jessie Buckley tied the knot at her home in Norfolk last year

The star said they decided to get married at their new home in Norfolk, and that the owners of their favourite cafe in Dalston came and did the catering.

"When we first started dating, because we lived in Dalston we would go to the Towpath [cafe] all the time and I fell in love with [owners] Lori and Laura", she explained.

"So they came and did the food for us. It was amazing."

Buckley said one of her "favourite memories of the day" involved "a keg of Guinness and one of their cheese toasties" at a certain hour of the celebrations.

The Lost Daughter star also revealed that she and Freddie went on several honeymoons with friends and that she was able to spend more time together because of the strike in Hollywood.

"We had many moons. We actually just kind of bottled into friends' holidays. Loads of friends were going away and they rented a place and were like, 'Come with us.' It was really nice," she said.

"Usually I'm away shooting or something but because of the strike everything got moved so I've had a whole year just to like hang out."

For more movies news click here

Read Next