Since we forgot to celebrate Saint Patricks Day and since Brooklyn is fresh on DVD, let's talk everyone's favorite current Irish lass! Saoirse Ronan is only 21 years old (she turns 22 next month) but she's already logged over a decade of work having started as a child in a Irish television series called "The Clinic". Her first movie role was as Michelle Pfeiffer's daughter in the romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman shot in 2005 though it took along time to emerge due to behind the scenes studio and distribution dramas. Her breakthrough Oscar-nominated performance in Atonement (2007) quickly followed. She's now ascended to a real movie star with her warm engaging film-carrying work in Brooklyn (2015).
Let's repeat a bit of Oscar trivia since it's quite impressive and important: Saoirse Ronan (nominated at 13 and 21) is only the 4th child star in history to received an Oscar nomination before and after turning 18. The very short list includes only the icons Jodie Foster (first nominated at 14), Natalie Wood (first nominated at 17) and Sal Mineo. (first nominated at 17) so that's astonishingly good company for Saoirse! (If you count "special" non competitive Oscars you can include Judy Garland, too, who received a "juvenile" statue for The Wizard of Oz when she was 17.) Most child stars peak when they're children, you see, but Saoirse is surely just getting started.
How many of her films have you seen? (all posters after the jump)
Update I forgot "The Host" oopsie. How many of her 15 films have you seen?
She's already finished her next two pictures Loving Vincent (2016) a painted/animated Van Gogh biopic (it looks like the actors acted the scenes and they're being painted over?) and the Chekov adaptation The Seagull (she plays "Nina") with an impossibly talented cast that includes The Bening, Elisabeth Moss, Corey Stoll, Brian Dennehy, and Mare Winningham.
Saoirse is currently on the Broadway stage in The Crucible after which she goes before cameras again for her second adaptation of an Ian McEwan novel (Atonement being the first) called On Chesil Beach (previously discussed).