![]() Ronan's first film was Amy Heckerling's romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman, which was filmed in 2005. During the same time, Ronan auditioned for the part of Luna Lovegood in the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), a role she lost out to fellow Irish actress Evanna Lynch. ![]() Ronan made her screen debut on Irish national broadcaster RTÉ, in the 2003 prime time medical drama The Clinic and appeared in the mini-serial Proof. Career Early work and breakthrough (2003–2009) She was raised Catholic but has stated that she questioned her faith as a child. In her early teens, Ronan was living again in Dublin with her parents, who settled in the seaside village of Howth. Her parents later had her tutored privately at home. She was raised in Ardattin, County Carlow, where she attended Ardattin National School. The family moved back to Dublin when Ronan was three years old. 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. Her father worked in construction and in bars before training as an actor in New York, and her mother worked as a nanny and had acted as a child. Saoirse Una Ronan was born on 12 April 1994 in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, the only child of Irish parents Monica ( née Brennan) and Paul Ronan, both from Dublin. 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. 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. She also won a Golden Globe Award for Lady Bird. 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). ![]() 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). She had her breakthrough role as a precocious teenager in Atonement (2007), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. 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). 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. Saoirse Una Ronan ( / ˈ s ɜːr ʃ ə ˈ uː n ə ˈ r oʊ n ə n/ SUR-shə OO-nə ROH-nən, Irish: born 12 April 1994) is an American-born Irish actress.
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