Jessie Buckley just won a Golden Globe for Hamnet, but her husband was notably absent from her red carpet pics. Don’t hold your breath on her doing the red carpet circuit with her him, though, because he’s pretty much an international man of mystery at this point. To the point where we, the people, are only aware of his first name: Freddie. Oh, and they recently welcomed their first child together, too.
Here’s what we know about Jessie and Freddie’s relationship—just in case he pops up on a carpet or two during awards season!
April 2018
Jessie confirms that she and fellow actor James Norton have broken up, telling The Times (via the Daily Mail), “We have broken up, yes. It was acrimonious, but it’s a tough job to have a relationship and he is a great man and we are great friends. That’s it. How diplomatic can I sound? If you are away for a year filming, you are just not physically around at points.”
March 2021
Jessie alludes to her relationship with Freddie in an interview with The Guardian, referring to him only as her “fella” and confirming that she’s been with him “a while.”
Summer 2023
Jessie and Freddie—a mental health worker—get married! But no one knows when it happens, so keep reading for details.
January 2024
Jessie goes onto the Table Manners podcast and reveals wedding details, and per the Daily Mail, reveals she and Freddie met on a blind date set up by a mutual friend.
“He’s working in mental health, he’s gone back to university. He is gorgeous,” she said, via Evoke. “We have a little flat in Dalston, though Norfolk is our heart home. We probably split 50/50 between them at the moment. But we’ve only been in Norfolk for three years.”
She added, “We were originally going to move to Suffolk because we’d fallen in love there. Then friends of ours moved to Norfolk and bought this old place for practically nothing at 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 …an amazing old house that’s been there forever.”
Jessie also said Freddie is from Islington, and joked “I came to London at 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?’ I don’t know why she did it. But Freddie stayed Freddie.”
April 2025
Jessie shows up on the CinemaCon red carpet in Vegas and is pregnant!
December 2025
Per the Daily Mail, Jessie and Freddie welcomed a baby girl together in December 2025.
While speaking on the New York Times’ Modern Love podcast, Jessie revealed that playing a grieving mother in Hamnet brought out another side of her she hadn’t seen otherwise.
“I think when I was filming Hamnet, I deeply wanted to become a mother myself.
And it was such a gift to move through this woman and her motherhood and her love and her loss before I became a mother myself,” she said at the time, adding, “I think even getting pregnant and throughout my pregnancy and how I was thinking about what kind of birth I wanted and how I would be autonomous in choosing that as much as I could was very empowering.”
“I think the thing I can hope to impart to her, and I’m sure she’s going to go on her whole own trajectory, and she should, is we have one life,” Jessie said of her baby girl.
There’ve been no updates on her, Freddie, or their lil family since then, but clearly privacy is hugely important to them, so no surprise there. That said, keep an eye on all the other red carpets this season…
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