Saoirse Ronan

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Saoirse Una Ronan (born 12 April 1994) is an Irish and American actress.

Primarily noted for her roles in period dramas since a teenager, she is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards and four British Academy Film Awards. Ronan made her acting debut with the Irish medical drama series The Clinic in 2003 and her first film appearance was in a supporting role in the romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman in 2007.

Her breakthrough came with the part of a precocious teenager in Atonement (2007), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Ronan followed this with starring roles of a murdered girl seeking closure in The Lovely Bones (2009) and a teenaged assassin in Hanna (2011), and the supporting part of a baker in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).

She received critical acclaim for playing a homesick Irish girl in 1950s New York in Brooklyn (2015), the titular role of a high school senior in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (2017), and an aspiring author in Gerwig's Little Women (2019).

She earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the former two and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for Lady Bird. On stage, Ronan has portrayed Abigail Williams in the 2016 Broadway revival of The Crucible.

In the same year, she was featured by Forbes in two of their 30 Under 30 lists.

Ronan is vocal about social and political issues of Ireland.

Early life

Saoirse Una Ronan was born on 12 April 1994 in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, to Irish parents Monica (née Brennan) and Paul Ronan, both from Dublin. Her father worked in construction and bar work before training as an actor in New York, and her mother worked as a nanny, but had also acted as a child. Her parents were initially undocumented immigrants who had left Ireland due to the recession of the 1980s, and struggled economically during their time in New York. The family moved back to Dublin when Ronan was three years old. She was raised in Ardattin, County Carlow, where she attended Ardattin National School. Her parents later had her tutored privately at home. In her early teens, she was living again in Dublin with her parents, who settled in the seaside village of Howth. She was raised Catholic, but says she questioned her faith even as a child.

Personal life and off-screen work

Ronan holds dual Irish and American citizenship and has said, "I don't know where I am from. I'm just Irish." However, she also identifies as a New Yorker. She is close with her parents, and lived with them until age 19. She has credited her mother, who accompanied her on film sets as a teenager, for protecting her from uncomfortable situations. In 2018 Ronan purchased a home in Greystones, County Wicklow; she sold the home in late 2019. In late 2020 she purchased a house in West Cork. Since 2018 she has been in a relationship with Scottish actor Jack Lowden, her co-star in Mary Queen of Scots, and divides her time between Dublin, London, and northern England.

She does not use social media, finding it "too stressful". She had previously joined Twitter in late 2009 due to being a fan of English comedian Stephen Fry, whose heavy usage of the site has been well documented, but soon deleted her account. She said in a February 2018 interview, "I get why musicians do it, and journalists or people in the public eye. But acting is a different thing, 'cause you're not yourself when you're working. I'm not me in anything that anyone sees me in ... and self-promotion has always made me feel really uncomfortable."

Ronan is an ambassador for the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. She is associated with Home Sweet Home, an anti-homeless campaign, and supported the organisation's action to illegally take over an office building in Dublin to house 31 homeless families in 2016. That same year, she was featured in a music video for Hozier's song "Cherry Wine", which brought attention to domestic violence. She has also supported LGBT rights in Ireland by voting in favour of gay marriage on the 2015 Irish constitutional referendums.

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Career

In the 2003 prime time medical drama The Clinic, Ronan made her television debut on Irish national radio station RTÉ, before appearing in the mini-serial Proof. Ronan applied for Luna Lovegood's role in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), a part of which she lost out to fellow Irish actress Evanna Lynch. Amy Heckerling's romantic comedy Let There Be Your Woman, which was shot in 2005, was Ronan's first film. In 2007, it was theatrically introduced in a few international markets, but in 2008, it was converted to video in the United States, after it failed to attract funds and several deals fell apart during post-production. Ronan played Michelle Pfeiffer's daughter in the film, and Paul Rudd co-starred Pfeiffer's love interest in the film. Variety's Joe Leydon referred to the film as "desperately unfunny," but some of the film's highlights included Ronan and Pfeiffer's characters.

Ronan appeared at a casting call for Joe Wright's 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's book Atonement, which was aged 12. Briony Tallis, a 13-year-old aspiring novelist who has impacted many lives by accusing her sister's cousin of a felony she did not commit. She appeared alongside Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. The film, which was budgeted at US$30 million, earned over US$129 million worldwide. Ty Burr of The Boston Globe described her as "remarkable [and] eccentric," while Christopher Orr of The Atlantic said she is "a marvel" who "captures the narcissism and self-doubt of precocity in an elegant manner. Ronan was nominated for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making him the youngest nominee in the category.

In the supernatural thriller Death Defying Acts (2007), Ronan played the daughter of an impoverished psychic (played by Catherine Zeta-Jones) and portrayed Lina Mayfleet, a hero who must save the inhabitants of an underground city named Ember. Both films received mixed critical receptions and fell at the box office. Stephen Holden, a scholar, took note of how Ronan's talents were wasted in it in a review.

Ronan appeared in Peter Jackson's supernatural thriller The Lovely Bones, a retelling of Alice Sebold's book of the same name. Ronan, a 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who was beaten and murdered as her family tried to move forward with their families, but she came to terms with her vengeance search. Ronan and her family were initially reluctant to accept the role due to its subject matter, but after Jackson told them that no scenes of rape and murder would be included in the film would not include gratuitous scenes of rape and murder, they became more hesitant. Several scenes in Ronan's film depended on extensive special effects, and a majority of his scenes were shot in front of a blue screen. Reviewers were skeptical of Ronan's film's plot and message, but Richard Corliss of Time said the film had successfully invested the gruesome story with "impressive strength and grace." It was later deemed to be the year's best showing. Ronan, according to Sukhdev Sandhu of The Daily Telegraph, is the only positive component of the film, "is simultaneously playful and solemn, youthful yet old beyond her years." The film was a box office disappointment, but Ronan was given a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination.

Ronan appeared in Peter Weir's war drama The Way Back (2010), a Polish orphanage during World War II whose survivors captured Siberian prisoners in a 4,000-kilometer (6,400 km) trek to India. It co-starred Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, and Ed Harris, and was shot on location in Bulgaria, India, and Morocco. Ronan returned to Joe Wright in the following year to play the titular character in the action film Hanna, about a 15-year-old girl who was raised in the Arctic wilderness to be an assassination attempt. Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett co-starred as Hanna's father and a corrupt CIA agent, respectively. Ronan appeared in public displays and spent several months in preparation for her combat, stick fighting, and knife combat. Critics also lauded Ronan's performance and the film's action sequences. Peter Travers characterized Ronan as a "extraordinary fable of blood and regret" in his review of the film, calling him "a strange fable of blood and regret" and describing him as a "acting sorceress." Hanna's initial public success was limited. She also appeared in the dubbed English version of Studio Ghibli's Japanese anime film Arrietty. Ronan was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the age of 16.

Ronan appeared in a grant for the Irish Film Institute's Archive Preservation Fund, in which she was digitally converted into famous Irish films of the past, as well as a documentary film. In Geoffrey S. Fletcher's action film Violet & Daisy (2011), Ronan and Alexis Bledel played the titular assassins. IGN's Eric Goldman compared the film to Quentin Tarantino's work, commenting that Ronan's skills had far exceeded the film's. Peter Jackson initially invited Ronan to act an elf in the Hobbit film series, but she had to cancel due to scheduling conflicts. Instead, she was taken by Neil Jordan's horror film Byzantium (2012) as the "dark, gothic, and twisted" project gave her the opportunity to play a more complex and mature character. Gemma Arterton and her mother-and-daughter vampires appeared in the film. The critic Alan Jones, who wrote for Radio Times, found the film to be a "evocative fairy tale that uses vampires as a prism to reflect on humanity" and that both Arterton and Ronan are "radiant."

Ronan played Melanie Stryder, a human protester and Wanderer, a parasitic alien in a 2013 film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's book The Host. Critics slammed the film; Manohla Dargis described it as "a brazen combination of unoriginal science-fiction [and] young-adult pandering] but took note of a "otherworldly aspect to [Ronan's] screen presence, partly due to her inability and her own transparent eyes, which can indicate severe intensity or complete detachment." In Kevin Macdonald's book How I Live Now, a Meg Rosoff-authored sequel of the same name, Ronan played an American teen sent to a remote farm in the United Kingdom during the outbreak of a fictional third world war. Ronan was deemed to be in "most watchable form" in the film, but the film did not do well at the box office. Ronan portrayed a barmaid named Talia in the critically criticized animated film Justin and the Knights of Valour's last film release of the year.

Ronan's debut in 2014 saw two film premieres in a highly varied audience—the critically acclaimed comedy film The Grand Budapest Hotel from Wes Anderson and Ryan Gosling's panned directorial debut Lost River. Ronan appeared in the former, an ensemble film starring Ralph Fiennes and Tony Revolori, as the protagonist of Revolori's love interest. It was her first film on camera with her parents as she was on set. The film was ranked by the BBC as one of the century's finest films on a $25 million budget and was named as one of the top films of the century by the BBC. Ronan played a mysterious teenage girl named Rat who owns a pet rat in the hit film Lost River, but The Independent's Geoffrey Macnab described it as a "completely self-indulgent tale," but she praised Ronan's "tough but vulnerable" portrayal.

Ronan played Eilis Lacey, a young Irish woman in Stockholm, Pennsylvania, during a psychological thriller about Stockholm syndrome in 2015. The film, directed by John Crowley, is based on Colm Tóib's book "named "nothing." Ronan said that several aspects of her character's growth and journey mirrored her own. Ronan's appearance and appearance were highly praised by the film and viewers; Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called it a "heartfelt and absorbing film" and said Ronan's "calm poise anchors virtually every scene and every shot." Kenneth Turan of Los Angeles Times expressed his gratitude for the "overwhelming empathy she creates with the subtlest terms, as well as the fact that she can create achingly personal, intensely emotional sequences without even doing anything." Ronan has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama.

Ronan debuted on Broadway in 2016, a revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. She played Abigail Williams, a manipulative maid responsible for the deaths of 150 people suspected of witchcraft. Based on the Salem witch trials, Ivo van Hove directed the play and ran for 125 performances. She read Stacy Schiff's book The Witches (1692) in preparation and worked closely with van Hove to empathise with her nefarious character. Ronan played her as "more victim than victimizer" rather than relying on previous portrayals of Williams. David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter found Ronan to be "icy and commanding," and Linda Winer of Newsday said she had played the part "with the duplicity of a malevolent surfer-girl."

In a film version of Ian McEwan's book On Chesil Beach, Ronan next voiced Marguerite Gachet and starred alongside Billy Howle as a struggling newlyweds on their honeymoon. In a mixed review of Ronan's last film, Kate Erbland of IndieWire found that she had been underutilized in it and that her appearance had been overshadowed by that of Howle. She appeared in Greta Gerwig's coming-of-age film Lady Bird, in which she played the titular role of Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson, a high school senior who relates a turbulent friendship with her mother (played by Laurie Metcalf). On the review portal Rotten Tomatoes, it ranks among the best-reviewed films of all time. A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote "Ronan leads each step in Lady Bird's tale with an enthralling combination of self-confidence and discovery." She is as spontaneous and volatile as a real 17-year-old... which gives an altogether new degree of craft." She was named Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical by the Golden Globe Award, and she also received Academy Award, BAFTA, and SAG nominations for Best Actress.

Ronan appeared in the music video for Ed Sheeran's song "Galway Girl" in 2017. She appeared in an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull, in which she played Nina, an aspiring actress. Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post praised Ronan's performance, saying that she "makes for an incandescent Nina, particularly in her loopy final-act speech." She then appeared in Mary Stuart's time drama Mary Queen of Scots, co-starring Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I of England. Ronan and Robbie did not interact with one another until filming their climactic scene. Both actresses' appearances were lauded by critic Todd McCarthy, who praised Ronan for his "carr[ing] the film with a ferocious spirit."

Ronan, who was aware of a forthcoming film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's book Little Women, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, wanted to play Jo March, an aspiring author in the American Civil War period. She read Marmee & Louisa, a biography about Alcott and her mother; the actors rehearsed the script for two weeks; and filming took place on location in Concord, Massachusetts. In 2019, Little Women was announced to critical acclaim. Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair paid attention to how Ronan had portrayed her character "in all her tense allegiance, the fight between her family's allegiance, and her yearning for something more." As her highest-grossing film, the film earned more than $218 million. Best Actress, BAFTA, and Golden Globe Awards were given to her once more. Ronan, 25, was the second youngest person to receive four Oscar nominations, behind Jennifer Lawrence, at 25 years and six months of age.

In Francis Lee's Ammonite, a drama about a romantic encounter between the two women in the 1840s, Ronan portrayed Charlotte Murchison opposite Kate Winslet's Mary Anning. The two actresses worked closely on the project, and they choreographed their own sex scenes. "The most mature result of [Ronan's] remarkable career," Steve Pond of TheWrap described it as "the most mature appearance of [Ronan's] remarkable career." Ronan appeared in Wes Anderson's ensemble film The French Dispatch, which was about American journalists in France in 2021. She made her West End theatre debut at London's Almeida Theatre in the same year as Lady Macbeth in a revival of The Tragedy of Macbeth opposite James McArdle. Ronan was intimidated by Shakespeare's debut for the first time in her career, and she was inspired by Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's marriage for depicting Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's relationship. Ronan's "rare ability to make Shakespeare's lovely but weighty words simple to comprehend" was noted by Alexandra Pollard of The Independent. Ronan appeared in the comedy drama Film See How They Run (2022), alongside Sam Rockwell as cops investigating a murder in 1950s London.

Ronan will appear in a film version of Iain Reid's novel Foe directed by Garth Davis, as well as The Outrun, an adaptation of Amy Liptrot's memoir of the same name directed by Nora Fingscheidt. She will also appear in Steve McQueen's World War II historical film Blitz, which will be available on Apple TV+.

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