Saoirse Una Ronan (born 12 April 1994) is an American-born Irish actress. Primarily known for her work in period dramas, she has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Scottish BAFTA, with nominations for four Academy Awards and seven British Academy Film Awards. Ronan made her acting debut in 2003, when she was a child, on the Irish medical drama series The Clinic. Her breakthrough role was as a precocious teenager in the period drama film Atonement (2007), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She gained further recognition for her performances in the supernatural drama The Lovely Bones (2009), the action thriller Hanna (2011), and the ensemble comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Ronan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for three of her roles: an Irish immigrant in Brooklyn (2015), a high school student in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (2017) – which also won her a Golden Globe Award – and Jo March in Gerwig's Little Women (2019). Ronan also produced and starred in the drama The Outrun (2024). 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. In 2016, she was featured by Forbes in two of its 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.
