Career Highlights: Atonement, City of Ember, Death Defying Acts
First Major Screen Credit: Death Defying Acts (2007)
Biography
Irish actress Saoirse Ronan got her start in her native land on the television series The Clinic and Proof before parlaying her small-screen success into a career in Hollywood. Her first big-screen gig came in 2007, with a small supporting role in the Amy Heckerling romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman, and later that year she could be seen as the 13-year-old version of the character Briony Tallis in the highly acclaimed drama Atonement, adapted from the Ian McEwan novel. Her work in that film garnered her strong notices, as well as Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress. She followed up that critically acclaimed work by taking the central role of the ill-fated adolescent girl, Susie Salmon, in Peter Jackson's 2008 adaptation of Alice Sebold's acclaimed novel The Lovely Bones. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
Saoirse Ronan (pronounced /ˈsirʃə ˈroʊnən/;[3] born 12 April 1994) is an American-born Irish actress. She is the eleventh youngest person to be nominated for an Academy Award and the seventh youngest to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Ronan received multiple award nominations for her role as the young Briony Tallis in the film Atonement. She plays Susie Salmon in the 2009 film adaptation The Lovely Bones.
Ronan was born in New York City,[2] the daughter of Irish parents Monica and Paul Ronan, who were working in New York at the time, the latter an actor, and was raised in County Carlow, Ireland. As a small child, she sometimes accompanied her father on the set when he worked on films such as The Devil's Own[4] and Veronica Guerin. She currently attends school in Kilkenny College, Ireland[5] and lives in County Carlow.[6]