Saoirse Ronan (SEER-shuh RO-nuhn;
[See inogolo:pronunciation of Saoirse Ronan.] born 12 April 1994) is an
Academy Award-nominated
American born
Irish actress. She is the eleventh youngest person to be nominated for an Academy Award and the
seventh youngest to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Ronan received multiple award nominations for her role as the young Briony Tallis in the film
Atonement. She plays Susie Salmon in the 2009 film adaptation
The Lovely Bones.
Early life
Ronan, an only child, was born in
New York City.
[Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV - Oscar-nominated actress has family ties to Mercer County] She is the daughter of Irish parents Monica and Paul Ronan – the latter an actor – who were living in New York at the time. She was raised in
County Carlow,
Ireland, having moved to Ireland when she was three years old.
As a small child, she sometimes accompanied her father on the set when he was working on such films as
The Devil's Own
and
Veronica Guerin.
