Saoirse Una Ronan was born 12 April 1994 in The Bronx, New York City, U.S. She is the only child of Irish parents Monica and Paul Ronan, who are both from Dublin. Ronan made her acting debut in 2003 on the Irish medical drama series The Clinic.
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Saoirse Una Ronan was born 12 April 1994 in The Bronx, New York City, U.S. She is the only child of Irish parents Monica and Paul Ronan, who are both from Dublin. Ronan made her acting debut in 2003 on the Irish medical drama series The Clinic. She had her breakthrough in the role of a precocious teenager in Joe Wright’s Atonement, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She followed this with starring roles of a murdered girl seeking closure in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones and a teenage assassin in Hanna. She garnered critical acclaim for playing a homesick Irish immigrant in 1950s New York in Brooklyn and the eponymous high school senior in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird. In the same year, she was featured by Forbes in two of their 30 Under 30 lists. On stage, Ronan portrayed Abigail Williams in the 2016 Broadway revival of The Crucible. She has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and nominations for four Academy Awards and five British Academy Film Awards. 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. She was raised Catholic, but says that even as a child, she questioned her faith. She acted alongside Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in the film I Could Never Be Your Woman, which was filmed in 2005. In 2009, she starred alongside Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon and Peter Jackson in the fantasy film City of Ember.
In a review for the latter, Stephen Holden took note of how Ronan’s talents were wasted in it, who must save the inhabitants of an underground city named Ember. Both films received a mixed critical reception and failed at the box office box office. In 2012, she played the next daughter of an impoverished psychic in the supernatural thriller Defying Acts and starred as Lina Mayfleet, a heroic teenager in the drama The Mayfleet. In 2013, she appeared in the mini-serial Proof and then starred in the movie The Grand Budapest Hotel. In 2014, she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress for Lady Bird and was nominated for a BAFTA Award and an Academy Award, making her the seventh youngest Oscar nominee in the Supporting Actress category. In 2015, she also won a Golden Globes Award for her role in Little Women and was featured on Forbes’ 30 under 30 list for the first time. She also appeared in a stage production of the play The Crucifer in the spring of that year. Her father worked in construction and bar work before training as an actor, and her mother worked as a nanny, but had also acted as a. nanny,. Ronan has spoken out about social and political issues of Ireland. She has appeared in several television shows, including The Colbert Report, The Voice, and The Voice Live, as well as a number of other roles.
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