Saoirse Ronan / Saoirse Una Ronan

Born on April 22, 1994 (New York City, United States).

We grew up alongside her — that sweet, luminous girl from City of Ember (2008), a film whose underground world whispered the early DNA of Silo, and from the aching, translucent sorrow of The Lovely Bones (2010). Even then, she carried something rare: a stillness that felt ancient, a gaze that seemed to understand more than a child should. And the girl grew up into one of the most compelling dramatic actresses of her generation.

In Hanna (2011), she was a lethal, almost feral prodigy — a wild, winter-born creature who could kill with the efficiency of an assassin yet look at the world with the bewilderment of someone seeing color for the first time. In How I Live Now (2013), she carried an apocalyptic love story with raw, trembling urgency, blending teenage vulnerability with wartime brutality. And in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), she softened Wes Anderson’s meticulous geometry with a warmth so gentle it felt like a hand on your shoulder.

Ronan has that rare ability to disappear into worlds without needing to raise her voice. Her performances don’t demand attention — they pull it, quietly, inexorably. Like Juno Temple, she can hold chaos and innocence in the same breath; like Teresa Palmer, she carries a kind of otherworldly clarity, a sense that she slips between realities rather than performing them. Yet Ronan remains unmistakably her own phenomenon — both grounded and ethereal, both tender and unbreakable.

She belongs to that lineage of actresses who make the camera feel like a confidant rather than an audience — performers whose inner life hums so loudly beneath the surface that you feel it even when they are perfectly still. A quiet revolutionary, she proves, film after film, that emotional truth is more powerful than spectacle, and that vulnerability can be a form of armor.

Married. Mother of one child.