Saoirse Ronan Early Life, Relationships, Career, Family, Wiki, Age, Producing, Filmography

Birthday: April 12, 1994

Nationality: Irish

Famous: Actresses - American Women

Also Known As: Saoirse Una Rona

Sun Sign: Aries

Age: 24 Years

Born Country: United States

Born In: The Bronx, New York City, New York

Famous As: Actress

Height: 1.68 M

Father: Paul Ronan

Mother: Monica Ronan

City, States, Provinces & Districts: New Yorkers

Early life

Saoirse Una Ronan was born on 12 April 1994 in The Bronx borough of New York City, U.S. Ronan is the only child of Irish parents Monica (née Brennan) and Paul Ronan, who are both from Dublin, Ireland. Her father worked in construction and bar work before training as an actor in New York, and her mother had acted as a child. Ronan and her parents moved back to Dublin, Ireland when she was three years old. She was raised for a short time in County Carlow where she attended Ardattin National School, but was later home-schooled by a private tutor. In her early teens, Ronan moved back to Dublin with her parents, settling in seaside village Howth.

Career

2003–2009: Atonement and other early screen appearances
Ronan made her screen debut on Irish national broadcaster RTÉ, in the 2003 prime time medical drama The Clinic and then appeared in the mini-serial Proof. During the same time, Ronan auditioned to play Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, a role she eventually lost to Evanna Lynch. Ronan's first film was Amy Heckerling's romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman, which was filmed in 2005. It was theatrically released in a few international markets in 2007, but given a direct-to-video release in the US in 2008, after it struggled to attract financing and several deals disintegrated during its post-production. In the film, Ronan portrayed the daughter of Michelle Pfeiffer's character and Paul Rudd co-starred as Pfeiffer's love interest. Joe Leydon of Variety labelled the film "desperately unfunny" but considered the interplay between Ronan and Pfeiffer's characters to be among the film's highlights.

At the age of 12, Ronan attended a casting call for Joe Wright's 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement. She auditioned for and won the part of Briony Tallis, a 13-year-old aspiring novelist, who affects several lives by accusing her sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. She acted alongside Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. Budgeted at US$30 million, the film earned over US$129 million worldwide. Ty Burr of The Boston Globe called her "remarkable [and] eccentric", and Christopher Orr of The Atlantic wrote that she is "a marvel, elegantly capturing the narcissism and self-doubt that adhere to precocity". Ronan was nominated for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the seventh youngest Oscar nominee in that category.



Ronan next played the daughter of an impoverished psychic (played by Catherine Zeta-Jones) in the supernatural thriller Death Defying Acts(2007) and starred as Lina Mayfleet, a heroic teenager who must save the inhabitants of an underground city named Ember in the fantasy film City of Ember (2008). Both films received a mixed critical reception and failed at the box office. In a review for the latter, the critic Stephen Holden took note of how Ronan's talents were wasted in it.

In 2009, Ronan starred alongside Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon and Stanley Tucci in Peter Jackson's supernatural drama The Lovely Bones, an adaptation of the book of the same name by Alice Sebold. Ronan played 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who, after being raped and murdered, watches from the after-life as her family struggles to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her quest for vengeance. Ronan and her family were originally hesitant for Ronan to accept the role due to its subject matter, but agreed after Jackson assured them that the film would not feature gratuitous scenes of rape and murder. Several sequences in the film relied on extensive special effects and much of Ronan's scenes were filmed in front of a blue screen. Reviewers were critical of the film's story and message, but Richard Corliss of Time believed that Ronan had successfully invested the gruesome tale with "immense gravity and grace". He later considered it to be the third best performance of the year. Sukhdev Sandhu of The Daily Telegraph considered Ronan to be the sole positive aspect of the production, writing that she "is simultaneously playful and solemn, youthful yet old beyond her years". The film was a box office disappointment, but earned Ronan a BAFTA Award for Best Actress nomination.

Personal life and media image

Ronan holds dual American and Irish citizenship. She resides in Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland.

In 2010, at the age of 16, Ronan was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She is an ambassador for the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.  In 2011, Ronan took part in a promotion for the Irish Film Institute's Archive Preservation Fund, in which she was digitally edited into popular Irish films of the past, as well as documentary footage.

In 2016, Ronan was featured by Forbes in two of their 30 Under 30 lists and in Time's Next Generation Leaders list. In 2018, she was featured in Maxim's "Hot 100" list and was named among the best American actors under 30 by IndieWire. Also that year, Calvin Klein appointed her and Lupita Nyong'o as the face of Raf Simons' first fragrance for the company, named Women.

Acting credits

Film

Year	Title	Role(s)	Director(s)	Notes
2007	I Could Never Be Your Woman	Izzie Mensforth	Amy Heckerling
2007	The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey	Celia Hardwick	Bill Clark
2007	Atonement	Briony Tallis (aged 13)	Joe Wright
2007	Death Defying Acts	Benji McGarvie	Gillian Armstrong
2008	City of Ember	Lina Mayfleet	Gil Kenan
2009	The Lovely Bones	Susie Salmon	Peter Jackson
2010	Arrietty	Arrietty	Hiromasa Yonebayashi	Voice; english dub
2010	The Way Back	Irena Zielińska	Peter Weir
2011	Hanna	Hanna Heller	Joe Wright
2011	Violet & Daisy	Daisy	Geoffrey S. Fletcher
2012	Byzantium	Eleanor Webb	Neil Jordan
2013	The Host	Melanie Stryder / Wanderer "Wanda"	Andrew Niccol
2013	How I Live Now	Daisy	Kevin Macdonald
2013	Justin and the Knights of Valour	Talia	Manuel Sicilia	Voice
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Agatha	Wes Anderson
2014	Muppets Most Wanted	Ballet Dancer	James Bobin	Cameo
2014	Lost River	Rat	Ryan Gosling
2015	Stockholm, Pennsylvania	Leia Dargon	Nikole Beckwith
2015	Weepah Way for Now	Emily/Narrator	Stephen Ringer	Voice
2015	Brooklyn	Éilis Lacey	John Crowley
2017	Loving Vincent	Marguerite Gachet	Dorota Kobiela Hugh Welchman	Voice
2017	Lady Bird	Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson	Greta Gerwig
2017	On Chesil Beach	Florence Ponting	Dominic Cooke
2018	The Seagull	Nina Zarechnaya	Michael Mayer
2018	Mary Queen of Scots	Mary, Queen of Scots	Josie Rourke	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003–2004	The Clinic	Rhiannon Geraghty	4 episodes
2005	Proof	Orla Boland	4 episodes
2014	Robot Chicken	Various	Voice; 2 episodes
2017	Saturday Night Live	Herself (host)	Episode: "Saoirse Ronan/U2"

Music video

Title	Year	Performer(s)	Album
"Garden's Heart"	2013	Bat for Lashes	How I Live Now
"Cherry Wine"	2016	Hozier	Hozier
"Galway Girl"	2017	Ed Sheeran	÷

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Venue
2016	The Crucible	Abigail Williams	Walter Kerr Theatre