Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Ronan smiling at the camera
Ronan in 2019
Born
Saoirse Una Ronan

(1994-04-12) 12 April 1994 (age 30)
Citizenship
  • Ireland
  • United States
OccupationActress
Years active2003–present
WorksFull list
Spouse
(m. 2024)
ParentPaul Ronan (father)
AwardsFull list

Saoirse Una Ronan (/ˈsɜːrʃə ˈnə ˈrnən/ SUR-shə OO-nə ROH-nən;[1] born 12 April 1994) is an American-born Irish actress. Primarily known for her work in period dramas since adolescence,[2] she has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards and five British Academy Film Awards.

Ronan made her acting debut in 2003 on the Irish medical drama series The Clinic and her film debut in I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007). She had her breakthrough role as a precocious teenager in Atonement (2007), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her career progressed with starring roles as a murdered girl seeking closure in The Lovely Bones (2009) and a teenage assassin in Hanna (2011), and the supporting role of a baker in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Ronan received critical acclaim and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a homesick Irish immigrant in 1950s New York in Brooklyn (2015), the eponymous high school senior in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (2017), and Jo March in Gerwig's Little Women (2019). She also won a Golden Globe Award for Lady Bird. Ronan has since produced and starred in the drama The Outrun (2024).

On stage, Ronan portrayed Abigail Williams in the 2016 Broadway revival of The Crucible and Lady Macbeth in the 2021 West End revival of The Tragedy of Macbeth. In 2016, she was featured by Forbes in two of their 30 Under 30 lists, and in 2020, The New York Times ranked her tenth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.

  1. ^ "Sheesh! Dennis Quaid sorry for mangling Saoirse Ronan's name". RTÉ.ie. 4 May 2017. Archived from the original on 3 May 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  2. ^ Wolfe, Alexandra (7 December 2018). "Saoirse Ronan Would Rather Be Knitting". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 20 March 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2019.

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