Saoirse Ronan Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Executive Producer , Executive Producer
Birth name Saoirse Una Ronan
Irish nationality
Birth April 12, 1994 (New York City, New York – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
The first name Saoirse (pronounced sister-sha) means “freedom” in Gaelic. Because if Saoirse Ronan was born in New York, her parents are Irish. His father, actor, Paul Ronan (seen in Veronica Guerin and Ordinary Decent Criminal ) introduced him to film sets from a very young age. She was not ten years old when she landed her first role in the Irish television series The Clinic , in 2003.

After another series in 2005, The Proof , she debuted in the cinema by playing the daughter of Catherine Zeta-Jones in Au beyond illusion (2007) then that of Michelle Pfeiffer in Too young for her . But it is thanks to a role as a sister that she gains notoriety: in Come Back to Me by Joe Wright , she is Briony, a budding writer who, through a mixture of naivety and jealousy, will ruin the life of her older sister Keira Knightley . This character (who, as an adult, is played by Romola Garai then Vanessa Redgrave ) earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2008 at the age of only 14.

After family films like The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (unreleased in France) or La Cité de l’ombre , Saoirse Ronan is in 2010 a murdered teenager who observes her family from beyond in Peter Jackson ‘s fantastic tale , The Lovely Bones . She thus acquired a greater degree of notoriety, even if the film was not a success. A year later, she was the sole female character in Peter Weir ‘s realistic adventure film Freedom Roads alongside Colin Farrell , Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris . That same year, she found Joe Wright and completely changed register by playing a young girl transformed into a killing machine in Hanna .

In 2013, she was possessed by one of the Wandering Souls in the adaptation of the novel by Stephenie Meyer , the author of the Twilight saga. If this sci-fi film was a failure, she bounced back the following year by diving into the colorful world of Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel and found herself confronted with the Third World War in the anticipation drama How I Live Now . She then evolves into the dark and tortured universe of Lost River, Ryan Gosling ‘s first directorial debut , then plays a young immigrant torn between two men and two countries in the drama Brooklyn . Her performance earned her her first Oscar nomination for best actress in 2016.

He only had to wait two years before landing a second nomination for Lady Bird , Greta Gerwig ‘s first directorial debut . She is a rebellious teenager who has a stormy relationship with her mother.