Birth Name: Saoirse Clodagh Ronan
Date of Birth: 12 April 1994
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Occupation: Actress
Height: 5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
Trade Mark: Has an uncanny ear for accents

Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse Ronan is an Academy Award-nominated 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.

Early life

Ronan, an only child, was born in New York City. She is the daughter of Irish parents Monica and Paul Ronan – the latter an actor – who were living in New York at the time. Her family is Catholic. She was raised in County Carlow, Ireland, having moved to Ireland when she was three years old. She was attended Kilkenny College in Ireland. Ronan is currently home schooled and lives in County Carlow. As a small child, she sometimes accompanied her father on the set when working on such films as The Devil’s Own and Veronica Guerin.
She supports the Irish Blue Cross, as the charity had reunited her with her runaway dog Sassie.

Career

She made her screen debut on Irish public service broadcaster RTÉ, in the 2003 primetime medical drama The Clinic and the 2004-2005 mini-serial Proof. 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. In 2008, she played Lina Mayfleet in City of Ember. In 2009, she starred in the role of Susie Salmon in The Lovely Bones (for which she received a BAFTA nomination and the BFCA Critics’ Choice Awards for “Best Young Actor/Actress”), a film adaptation of the novel of the same name. She has been cast in the title role in the upcoming film Hanna, which marks her reunion with Atonement’s director Joe Wright. She has been cast alongside Emma Thompson in Effie as the title character.