Saoirse Ronan isn’t slowing down anytime soon.
Since her breakout role in 2007, Saoirse Ronan has been one of the most exciting talents in Hollywood, giving impeccable performances from action movies to period dramas. At 28 years old, she’s worked with some of Hollywood’s best directors; she’s been on rotation working with Joe Wright, Greta Gerwig, and Wes Anderson.
Hanna in Hanna Ronan re-teamed with Atonement director Joe Wright to play the titular skilled assassin on the run. After a CIA agent, played by Cate Blanchett, tracks down her and her father , Hanna races across Europe in order to evade capture and discover the truth about her upbringing. Though the film is an action thriller, it doubles as a coming-of-age story, where Hanna realizes what she’s been missing in her life and makes her own way in the world.
Eilis Lacey in Brooklyn Set in the early 1950s, Ronan’s Eilis moves from Ireland to the New York borough in order to find more job opportunities. Though she’s initially homesick and feels out of place, she gradually begins to create a life for herself, even finding love in the process. When a tragedy sends her back to Ireland, she must decide where home really is for her. Ronan is the heartbeat of this film about moving away from home and figuring out life in the process.