Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse Una Ronan (; roughly SEER-shə; born 12 April 1994) is an Irish actress. Born in America to Irish parents, she returned to Ireland at the age of three to live in County Carlow. She began her career as a child and came to international prominence in 2007 after co-starring with Keira Knightley in the film Atonement, which gained her Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.

Ronan has since appeared in several Hollywood films, including the children's Christmas story The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (2007), the romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007), the film adaptation of the science fantasy Young Adult novel The City of Ember (2008), the supernatural romance Death Defying Acts (2008), the war drama film The Way Back (2010) and the action thriller Hanna (2011). She was awarded a Critics' Choice Award and a Saturn Award and received a second BAFTA Award nomination for her performance in Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones (2009). She most recently starred in the science fiction romantic film The Host, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer.