Jessie Buckley has been busy on the awards season circuit for Hamnet, but her husband has been notably absent from red carpet pics. To the point where he’s pretty much an international man of mystery at this point! In fact, we, the people, only just because aware of his full name: Freddie Sorensen.
He did, however, accompany her to the 2026 Oscars, where she gave him a major shoutout during her Best Actress speech, saying, “I love you, man. I love you. You’re the most incredible dad. You’re my best friend and I want to have 20,000 more babies with you.” Well!!
Here’s what we know about Jessie and Freddie’s relationship.
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 says, 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 says Freddie is from Islington, and jokes, “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 welcome a baby girl in December 2025.
While speaking on the New York Times’ Modern Love podcast, Jessie reveals 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. 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.”
January 2026
There’s speculation that this is Jessie hugging Freddie at the Golden Globes!
March 2026
Freddie accompanies Jessie to the 2026 Oscars, where fans get a few rare snaps of the two together:
In addition to gushing about him during her acceptance speech, she also opens up their daughter together, saying, “Isla, my little girl who is eight months who is absolutely no idea what's going on and is probably dreaming of milk, but this is kind of a big deal, and I love you and I love being your mom and I can’t wait to discover life beside you.”
