Saoirse Úna Ronan ( born 12 April 1994) is an Irish actress. She came to international prominence in 2007 after co-starring in the film Atonement with James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, making her one of the youngest actresses ever to receive nominations for the Academy Award,BAFTA and the Golden Globe Award.
For her starring role in Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones (2009) Ronan was awarded a Critics' Choice Award, a Saturn Award, and a second BAFTA Awardnomination for Best Actress.
Ronan has acted in a wide range of films, from the romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007), to the supernatural Death Defying Acts (2008), and starred in the action thriller Hanna (2011). She has recently starred in The Grand Budapest Hotel.
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Ronan's last film in 2013 was the film adaptation of the 2004 novel How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff. In the film, she plays a New York City teenager who is sent to stay with cousins on a remote farm in the United Kingdom during the outbreak of a fictional third world war. Directed by Kevin Macdonald, it was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
On 2 December 2013, Ronan announced the winner of the Turner Prize in Derry~Londonderry as part of the UK City of Culture 2013, and presented the prize to Laure Prouvost.
Ronan appeared in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, which co-starred Bill Murray, Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody,Jude Law and Owen Wilson; and in Lost River, the directorial debut of Ryan Gosling. Recently, Ronan has been cast as Leia in the psychological thriller Stockholm, directed by Nikole Beckwith. She joins Cynthia Nixon, Jason Isaacs and David Warshofsky.
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