Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Una Ronan (born April 12, 1994) is an American-born Irish actress. Primarily known for her work in period dramas since adolescence, she has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards and five British Academy Film Awards.
Ronan made her acting debut in 2003 on the Irish medical drama series The Clinic and her film debut in I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007). She had her breakthrough role as a precocious teenager in Joe Wright's Atonement (2007), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her career progressed with starring roles as a murdered girl seeking closure in The Lovely Bones (2009) and a teenage assassin in Hanna (2011), and the supporting role of a baker in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Ronan received critical acclaim and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a homesick Irish immigrant in 1950s New York in Brooklyn (2015), the eponymous high school senior in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (2017), and Jo March in Gerwig's Little Women (2019). She also won a Golden Globe Award for Lady Bird.
On stage, Ronan portrayed Abigail Williams in the 2016 Broadway revival of The Crucible and Lady Macbeth in the 2021 West End revival of The Tragedy of Macbeth. In 2016, she was featured by Forbes in two of their 30 Under 30 lists, and in 2020, The New York Times ranked her tenth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 22.188 |
Birthday | 1994-04-12 |
Place of Birth | The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Сирша Ронан, Sersh, 시얼샤 로넌, Saoirse Una Ronan, 西尔莎·罗南, シアーシャ・ローナン, |
2007
Atonement
7.651/4073
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime...
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Atonement
2009
The Lovely Bones
7.073/4474
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their da...
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The Lovely Bones
2018
Mary Queen of Scots
6.57/1734
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ru...
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Mary Queen of Scots
2008
City of Ember
6.325/1690
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is fail...
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City of Ember
2007
Death Defying Acts
6/253
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
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Death Defying Acts
2007
I Could Never Be Your Woman
5.877/405
Mother Nature loves to cause mischief, and she steps in to help two love-starved souls find happiness. She helps an aging professional woman and singl...
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I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
5.972/32
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempere...
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The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
2010
The Way Back
6.987/1504
At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and...
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The Way Back
2011
Hanna
6.59/3278
Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the w...
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Hanna
2013
The Host
6.284/3840
A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as...
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The Host
2011
Violet & Daisy
6.081/246
Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.
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Violet & Daisy
2012
Byzantium
6.282/822
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local resort.
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Byzantium
2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
8.05/14451
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becom...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
2013
Justin and the Knights of Valour
5.9/296
A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight.
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Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
How I Live Now
6.6/841
An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the w...
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How I Live Now
2015
Lost River
5.8/582
Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld while her teenage son, Bones, discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town. B...
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Lost River
2015
Brooklyn
7.316/3028
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
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Brooklyn
2014
Muppets Most Wanted
6.318/789
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his das...
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Muppets Most Wanted
2015
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
5.3/79
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
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Stockholm, Pennsylvania
2018
On Chesil Beach
6.153/350
In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and f...
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On Chesil Beach
2015
Weepah Way For Now
4.7/11
Elle and Joy spend their last week before their next music tour wandering through the heart of Laurel Canyon, whiling away carefree afternoons with th...
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Weepah Way For Now
2018
The Seagull
5.5/101
At a picturesque lakeside estate, a love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.
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The Seagull
2017
Loving Vincent
8/2390
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final...
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Loving Vincent
2017
Lady Bird
7.265/8253
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her up...
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Lady Bird
2017
Great Performers: Horror Show
6.694/18
Horror films dominated the cultural conversation in 2017. From the surprise hit “Get Out” to the movie adaption of “It” to the campy “Happy Death Day,...
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Great Performers: Horror Show
2019
Little Women
7.882/6087
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Little Women
2020
Ammonite
7/548
In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite...
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Ammonite
2021
The French Dispatch
7.1/2467
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student ri...
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The French Dispatch
2019
Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream
8/12
A documentary detailing the journey it took two passionate filmmakers to achieve their impossible dream, creating the world's first fully painted feat...
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Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream
2022
See How They Run
6.366/1021
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered....
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See How They Run
2023
Foe
5.677/206
Henrietta and Junior farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior's family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when...
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Foe
2021
The Tragedy of Macbeth
7/2
Following one couple's spine-chilling quest for power, this performance was captured during its original run at the Almeida Theatre in 2021, with the...
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
2024
The Outrun
0/0
Rona, fresh out of rehab, returns to the Orkney Islands; a place both wild and beautiful right off the Scottish coast. After more than a decade of liv...
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The Outrun
2016
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
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Bono and others in a major Dublin, city wide event in honor of revered human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Blitz
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Follow the stories of a group of Londoners during the aerial bombing of the British capital during the war.
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Blitz
Bad Apples
0/0
Maria, a primary school teacher, does her best to inspire a class of 10-year-olds, but is unable to because of one unruly and chaotic student. With he...
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