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Saoirse Ronan

1994-04-12

The Biography

Saoirse Una Ronan (born April 12, 1994) is an American-born Irish actress. Primarily known for her work in period dramas since adolescence, 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 Joe Wright's 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. 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.

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Movies

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

8.05 average rating
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Little Women

7.9 average rating
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Lady Bird

7.3 average rating
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Blitz

7.2 average rating
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Byzantium

6.286 average rating
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The Lovely Bones

7.075 average rating
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The Host

6.3 average rating
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Atonement

7.7 average rating
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The French Dispatch

7 average rating
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Foe

5.712 average rating
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Ammonite

7 average rating
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Brooklyn

7.314 average rating
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Hanna

6.592 average rating
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The Outrun

6.95 average rating
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How I Live Now

6.654 average rating
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Mary Queen of Scots

6.566 average rating
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Muppets Most Wanted

6.3 average rating
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I Could Never Be Your Woman

5.9 average rating
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City of Ember

6.3 average rating
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The Way Back

7 average rating