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Headline: Jessie Buckley becomes first Irish winner of Best Actress at 2026 Academy Awards
Caption: During the ceremony in Los Angeles, previous winner Mikey Madison presented the Killarney-born actress with the Oscar for her performance as Agnes Shakespeare in the period drama Hamnet. Directed by Chloé Zhao, the film is an adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel, which dramatises the life of William Shakespeare.. To begin, Buckley thanked her fellow nominees - Emma Stone for Bugonia, Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue, and Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value.
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