Jessie Buckley reveals she married blind date match in secret wedding last year

Irish actress Jessie Buckley has revealed she has kept her marriage under wraps since last summer.

The Oscar nominated star of The Lost Daughter met an English mental health worker who she calls ‘Freddie’ on a blind date.

She will not reveal his surname, when their wedding was or divulge many details about their relationship.

Speaking to the Table Manners podcast, the Killarney-born actress said her husband has returned to university and he is working in mental health.

“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?’… Freddie stayed Freddie. I don’t know why she did it.”

The pair tied the knot “in summer” in Norfolk, which she describes as their “heart home”.

“When we first started dating we would go to the Towpath (café) in Dalston all the time and I just fell in love with (owners) Lori and Laura so much,” she said, revealing they catered the wedding.

“It was amazing. They are such great people and one of my memories of the day was: I wanted a keg of Guinness and I definitely wanted their cheese toasties at a certain hour, after they served all the delicious things.”

On whether the pair honeymooned together, Buckley said they “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. Usually I’m away shooting or something, and because of the (writer’s) strike everything got moved, so I’ve had a whole year just to, like, hang out.”

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