We could hardly believe it when Saoirse Ronan’s dad Paul told 98FM that his daughter will turn 18 in a few weeks. She was only 13 when the world took note of her fabulous performance in “Atonement” for which she was Oscar nominated and her career has skyrocketed since then. She was BAFTA nominated in 2008 for “Atonement” and then again 2 years later for “The Lovely Bones”.

Even though her big birthday is just around the corner on April 12th, her dad Paul told 98FM she won’t get much time off – she has a really busy movie year ahead. She is fully booked up for 2012. She is in Louisiana right now filming “The Host” directed by Andrew Nicholl. She just finished filming “Byzanthiam” with Neil Jordan and flew out to Louisiana after just 2 days off.

Last year, she had a long break – just doing promotion for “Hanna”, work for the ISPCC and a Vogue photoshoot so Saoirse was eager to get back to work.

She has another 3 films on the cards – one called “The Order of the Seven” – a retake on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It’s a Disney film around September/October and another one based in the UK that is yet to be finalised so she will have about 6 weeks off for the entire year.

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