List of Saoirse Ronan performances
American-born Irish actress Saoirse Ronan began her career as a child with the Irish medical drama series The Clinic in 2003. She made her film debut in 2007 with a supporting role in the romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman, and had her breakout role in the same year with Joe Wright's period drama Atonement. Her performance as a precocious teenager in the latter earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Two years later, she starred as a murdered girl seeking closure in Peter Jackson's drama The Lovely Bones, and in 2011, she reunited with Wright by playing the title role of an assassin in the action film Hanna.
Following a starring role in the poorly received science fiction film The Host, Ronan featured in Wes Anderson's comedy-drama The Grand Budapest Hotel. Her performance as a homesick Irishwoman in 1950s New York City in Brooklyn earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2017, she had a voice role in the animated film Loving Vincent and played the titular teenager in Greta Gerwig's coming-of-age film Lady Bird. The latter won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical in addition to another Academy Award nomination. Ronan made her Broadway debut by playing Abigail Williams in a 2016 revival of The Crucible. Alongside more period film roles, including in Mary Queen of Scots, Ronan reteamed with Gerwig in Little Women, which earned her another nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Ronan has since made her West End theatre debut as Lady Macbeth in a revival of The Tragedy of Macbeth in 2021 and taken on a comic role in See How They Run. She expanded to film production with The Outrun, in which she also starred as a recovering alcoholic.