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Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse Ronan

Birthday: 1994-04-12 | Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Saoirse Una Ronan (born 12 April 1994) is an American-born Irish actress. Primarily noted for her roles in period dramas since adolescence, Ronan has received various accolades throughout her career, including a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and five British Academy Film Awards. Ronan made her acting debut in 2003 on the Irish medical drama series The Clinic. She made her film debut in I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007), and had her breakthrough in the role of a precocious teenager in Joe Wright's Atonement (2007), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; making 13-year-old Ronan the seventh-youngest nominee in that category. She subsequently played a series of starring roles such as that of a murdered girl seeking closure in Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones (2009) and a teenage assassin in Hanna (2011), and the supporting role of a baker in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). She received critical praise and a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for playing a homesick Irish immigrant in 1950s New York in Brooklyn (2015); at age 21, it also made her the eighth-youngest Best Actress nominee. She later portrayed the eponymous high school senior in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (2017), and Jo March in Gerwig's Little Women (2019), both of which earned her Academy Award for Best Actress nominations, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical win for Lady Bird. She also starred in Francis Lee's Ammonite (2020).

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
Ammonite

as    Charlotte Murchison

2019
Little Women

as    Josephine 'Jo' March

2018
On Chesil Beach

as    Florence Ponting

2018
Mary Queen of Scots

as    Mary Stuart

2018
The Seagull

as    Nina Zarechnaya

2017
Lady Bird

as    Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson

2017
Loving Vincent

as    Marguerite Gachet

2015
Brooklyn

as    Eilis Lacey

2015
Weepah Way For Now

as    Emily (Voice)

2015
Stockholm, Pennsylvania

as    Leia Dargon

2015
Lost River

as    Rat

2013
Violet & Daisy

as    Daisy

2013
How I Live Now

as    Daisy Ryback

2013
Byzantium

as    Eleanor Webb

2013
The Host

as    Melanie Stryder / Wanda

2013
Justin and the Knights of Valour

as    Talia (voice)

2011
Hanna

as    Hanna Heller

2011
The Way Back

as    Irena Zielińska

2010
The Lovely Bones

as    Susie Salmon

2008
City of Ember

as    Lina Mayfleet

2007
Atonement

as    Briony Tallis (Age 13)

2007
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

as    Celia Hardwick

2007
I Could Never Be Your Woman

as    Izzie Mensforth

2004
Proof

as    Orla Boland