Portrait · Martin Kraft (photo.martinkraft.com) / CC BY-SA 4.0 Saoirse Ronan Actor, producer, director and screenwriter
Born 1994
Saoirse Ronan is an Irish actor, producer and filmmaker born in the Bronx to Irish parents. Her family returned to Ireland while her father was building an acting career, and she grew up around film sets. Her screen work began with The Clinic and I Could Never Be Your Woman before Atonement brought international recognition. She moves between literary adaptations, coming-of-age stories and genre films, including The Lovely Bones, Hanna, Brooklyn, Lady Bird, Little Women and Ammonite. She won a Golden Globe for Lady Bird and has Academy Award nominations for Atonement, Brooklyn, Lady Bird and Little Women. Her stage work includes Abigail Williams in The Crucible on Broadway and Lady Macbeth at the Almeida. Later films include Foe, The Outrun, which she also produced, Blitz and Bad Apples. Venice's 2026 programme credits her as writer and director of Paper Plane. She discussed the short and Bad Apples with BFI that September, while filming Sam Mendes's Beatles project as Linda McCartney.
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Classroom research and a directing debut Ronan tells BFI how classroom visits and conversations with teachers helped shape Bad Apples. She also discusses Paper Plane, recently premiered at Venice, as a personal writing and directing project. The interview records her ongoing work on the Beatles films.
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Paper Plane enters Venice's programme The official festival record credits Ronan for both direction and screenplay; its public schedule lists a September screening.
11 Sept 2026 Screening event date; credits cross-checked with film entry
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The Beatles film project continues shooting Sony's update announces additional casting and says production continues in the UK. Ronan's Linda McCartney role appears in the earlier official casting announcement.
12 Feb 2026 Official production update and separate casting record
Broadcast
Food, home and filmmaking at Ruthie's table Ronan joins Ruth Rogers and Greta Gerwig for a conversation about cooking, childhood meals and the connection between personal experience and performance.
16 Dec 2024 Original podcast episode and transcript
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Blitz arrives on Apple TV Ronan plays Rita, a mother searching for her missing son in Steve McQueen's wartime drama.
22 Nov 2024 Official streaming release date
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A Vogue conversation around Blitz The cover profile discusses her collaboration with Steve McQueen alongside marriage and home life.
16 Oct 2024 Named interviewer and dated cover profile
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A concise beauty routine She describes cleansing, vitamin C serum and moisturiser in British Vogue's beauty interview.
18 Sept 2018 First-person routine; exact variants unspecified
