Saoirse Una Ronan is an Irish-American actress, who is best known for her role as the 13-year-old Briony Tallis in Joe Wright's 2007 romantic drama war film Atonement, for which she nabbed a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (making Ronan the seventh-youngest nominee to be nominated for an Academy Award at the age of 13).
Ronan played Susie Salmon in Peter Jackson's 2009 supernatural drama film The Lovely Bones, as well as her critically-acclaimed roles in the 2015 romantic period drama film Brooklyn, Greta Gerwig's 2017 coming-of-age dramedy film Lady Bird, and as Jo March in Gerwig's 2019 coming-of-age period drama film Little Women, of which the three aforementioned films garnered Ronan three acting nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
For Disney, she appeared as herself in a cameo dancing during the Dance of the Sugar Plums skit with The Mutations in Dublin, Ireland in the 2014 musical comedy film Muppets Most Wanted. She also voiced Arrietty in the 2011 Studio Ghibli's UK dub version of The Secret World of Arrietty and played Principal Showgirl in Wes Anderson's 2021 Disney/Searchlight Pictures anthology comedy-drama film The French Dispatch.
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- Ronan was considered to portray Cinderella in the 2015 live-action adaptation of the 1950 animated film before Lily James was cast.
- Ronan was shortlisted for the role of Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens before Daisy Ridley was cast.
- She was considered to play Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Elizabeth Olsen was cast instead.[1]
- She was also considered for the role of Crimson Widow/Yelena Belova in Black Widow alongside Emma Watson,[citation needed] of which the role ultimately went to Florence Pugh (who co-starred with Ronan and Watson in Greta Gerwig's 2019 coming-of-age period drama adaptation of Little Women).
- Ronan, as herself, was featured in a September 2008 YouTube video titled "Fred is a Star in His Own Mind" alongside Lucas Cruikshank's "Fred" character.
- Ronan auditioned for the role of the young Jean Grey in X-men: Apogolypse before Sophie Turner was cast.