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May 11, 2023,
Incredibly beautiful, talented, intriguing and hard to read, Saoirse Ronan’s movie and resume list is so long, it can remind you of how old you are when she first burst upon the scene.
And she is only 28.
Do you remember what your life was like at 28 years old?
For many in our circle, it was just starting, and yet, take a look at what Saoirse has accomplished in such a short period of time.
Primarily known for her work in period dramas since adolescence, she has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards and five British Academy Film Awards.
About that resume. Time for a drumroll.
Saoirse made her acting debut in 2003 on the Irish medical drama series The Clinic and her film debut in I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007).
She had her breakthrough role as a precocious teenager in Joe Wright‘s Atonement (2007), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Atonement had to be one of the saddest movies that we have ever seen about, what could of, what should of happened, as opposed to what eventually occurred.
Her career progressed with starring roles as a murdered girl seeking closure in The Lovely Bones (2009) and a teenage assassin in Hanna (2011), and the supporting role of a baker in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
The film, The Lovely Bones, was the first time we saw her, and remembered her, because of her stunning performance.
Our intriguing luminary received critical acclaim and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a homesick Irish immigrant in 1950s New York in Brooklyn (2015).
Let’s talk about that one for a second.
Brooklyn is a 2015 romantic period drama film directed by John Crowley and written by Nick Hornby, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Colm Tóibín.
The story follows Eilis Lacey, a young Irishwoman who emigrates to Brooklyn in the early 1950s to find employment.
After building a life there, she is drawn back to her home town of Enniscorthy and has to choose where she wants to forge her future.
In 1951, in Enniscorthy, a small town in southeast Ireland, Eilis Lacey lives with her mother and older sister, Rose. Although she is an intelligent young woman, Eilis is unable to find full-time employment, so she works weekends at a shop run by the spiteful Miss Kelly. Eilis often accompanies her friend Nancy to local dances, but she is uninterested in the local young men.
She eventually moves to New York and meets young man who she is attracted to, and after a sudden important death in Ireland, she comes back home.
It is there that she meets yet another young man she likes and ultimately she will have to make a very tough decision about who to spend the rest of her life with.
It was not an easy choice and not the one we expected.
This was very penetrating and well done.
Time to return to her extensive resume.
Saoirse soon played the eponymous high school senior in Greta Gerwig‘s Lady Bird (2017), and Jo March in Gerwig’s Little Women (2019). She also won a Golden Globe Award for Lady Bird.
Here is a big milestone in her young brilliant career.
After becoming aware of a forthcoming film adaptation of the above mentioned Louisa May Alcott‘s novel Little Women, also written and directed by Greta Gerwig, Saoirse campaigned to play the lead role of Jo March, an aspiring author in the American Civil War era.
In preparation, she read Marmee & Louisa, a biography about Alcott and her mother; the cast rehearsed the script for two weeks, and filming took place on location in Concord, Massachusetts.
Little Women was released in 2019 to critical acclaim.
Time for another drum roll.
The film grossed over $218 million to emerge as her highest-grossing release.
Once again, she received Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress.
This made Ronan our A-List emerging super star, at only 25, the second youngest person to accrue four Oscar nominations, behind Jennifer Lawrence.
Time for a guilty pleasure.
Saoirse can transform herself so much that, at first, we didn’t recognize her in the electric movie, Hannah.
Hanna is a 2011 action thriller film directed by Joe Wright.
The film stars Saoirse Ronan as the title character, a girl raised in the wilderness of northern Finland by her father, an ex-CIA operative (Eric Bana), who trains her as an assassin. Cate Blanchett portrays a senior CIA agent who tries to track down and eliminate the girl and her father.
The incredible soundtrack was written by The Chemical Brothers.
We listened to the music over and over. A major part of the allure of the film is the music. We can’t say that enough.
Then the film itself is one non-stop electric ride. It was a ton of fun.
Reviewers praised the performances of Saoirse and Cate Blanchett as well as the action sequences and themes.
As far as her personal life goes, this is one little known notation. She does not use social media, finding it “too stressful”.
We can only imagine if she did, how huge a following she would have.
Ms. Ronan is an ambassador for the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
She is associated with Home Sweet Home, an anti-homelessness campaign, and supported the organization’s action to illegally take over an office building in Dublin to house 31 homeless families in 2016.
That same year, she was featured in a music video for Hozier‘s song “Cherry Wine“, which brought attention to domestic violence.
Impressive.
Now, while spiritually speaking, we might describe her as an old soul, a person, especially a young person, who demonstrates a maturity, understanding, or seriousness that is typical of someone much older, it is her wide ranging abilities and extensive resume that, at times, makes us feel old ourselves.
So much accomplished at just 28 years old.
We watched Saoirse in her very early years and were instantly captivated and mesmerized.
As her career quietly marches on, we sense we always will be.
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