Biography
Saoirse Una Ronan is an Irish actress born on 12 April 1994 in the Bronx, New York City. She holds Irish and US citizenship and identifies as Irish. She made her acting debut in 2003 in the Irish series The Clinic and had her breakthrough as the young Briony Tallis in Atonement (2007).
Ronan is known for roles including Susie Salmon in The Lovely Bones (2009), Hanna in Hanna (2011), Eilis Lacey in Brooklyn (2015), the title character in Lady Bird (2017), Jo March in Little Women (2019), and a supporting part in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). She has received four Academy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award.
She portrayed Abigail Williams in the 2016 Broadway revival of The Crucible and Lady Macbeth in the 2021 West End revival of Macbeth. In 2024 she starred as Rita in Blitz and as Rona, whom she also produced, in The Outrun.
