- - Jessie Buckley Thanks Her 'Hamnet' Cast and Crew (and Their Soup) During Her Best Actress Speech at the Globes

Lauren Puckett-PopeJanuary 12, 2026 at 5:42 AM

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Jessie Buckley Wins Best Actress at the Globes Rich Polk/2026GG - Getty Images

Jessie Buckley won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her role in Hamnet.

In her acceptance speech, she thanked her Hamnet co-stars and her fellow nominees.

“I love what I do, and I love being part of this industry,” she said.

“I would rave in that Globe [Theatre] for the rest of my life with you,” Hamnet actress Jessie Buckley told her co-stars—including Paul Mescal, Joe Alwyn, and Jacobi Jupe—as she took the stage at tonight’s Golden Globes ceremony to accept the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. Dressed in a baby blue Dior gown, she thanked her Hamnet collaborators (including a very special crew member and his soup) for creating an environment that allowed her to depict Agnes Shakespeare in all her extraordinary love and unfathomable grief.

Hamnet follows Agnes, wife of William Shakespeare, through the loss of their young son, Hamnet, as her husband’s playwriting career takes off in London. In her 2025 ELLE Women in Hollywood cover story, Buckley explained how the story of Hamnet Shakespeare has impacted her own mindset about love and grief. “I love love,” she said. “Love is worth it. What else are you going to do? Lock yourself away? I think you’ve got to live. Hamnet, even though he dies, lives on. Shakespeare has made something immortal in some way and created a way for this story, this son, this thing that happened in his life to be bigger than the moment. Maybe we have to live like that.”

Read a full transcript of her acceptance speech below.

This is not a normal feeling or situation to be in. But thank you, Golden Globes. Thank you, Focus [Features], and everybody who supported this film. Chloe, Paul, Maggie, Max, Emily, Jacobi, Joe, the 400 extras, I adore you. I would rave in that Globe [Theatre] for the rest of my life with you. It was such an extraordinary set to be part of, because, you know, we were telling the story of probably the most famous Brit that ever lived, and we had a Chinese director, a lot of Irish and mostly Polish crew, and beside our British family. I’d really like to thank our grip…During shooting, [he] started to disappear a little bit during the shoot. And I found him one day at the back of his truck, and he was chopping up potatoes and onions and meat, and he brought his ginormous cast-iron pot over from Poland. And he was making soup. And this soup started turning up on set. It was delicious. Thanks for bringing your pot to set. … Oh, my God, the incredible women I am honored to stand beside in this category. I mean, Julia Roberts, you are a hero to us all. Thank you. Jennifer [Lawrence], Renate [Reinsve], Eva [Victor], Tessa [Thompson], I’d watch you anytime, anywhere. You blow my mind. My husband, he’s really been enjoying the free canapes and cocktails. So, thank you so much. This is a real, real honor. I love what I do, and I love being part of this industry. Thank you.

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