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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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ConnectionGreta GerwigDirector of Lady Bird and Little Women.

ConnectionJoe WrightDirector of Atonement and Hanna.

ConnectionSteve McQueenWriter and director of Blitz.

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Trivia & tastes

We Gon' Be Alright — Jeff Chang

She recommended the essay collection to interviewer Sally Rooney. The display edition is identified separately.

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We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and ResegregationJeff Chang

Recommended to Sally Rooney in a Vogue interview; exact display edition separately checked.

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Coldplay, Snow Patrol, KT Tunstall and Fleetwood Mac

Named in a childhood interview; this is a dated preference rather than a current playlist.

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Song to the Siren — This Mortal Coil; Sweet Baby James — James Taylor

Named in her Vogue video answers.

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Blood Orange

She said she had been listening to Blood Orange in a fragrance campaign interview.

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Chinese food

She described Chinese food as her favorite while recalling New York meals in a podcast.

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Mashed potatoes

Named during the podcast's closing comfort-food discussion.

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Martial arts, stick fighting and weapons training

This describes preparation for the action film, rather than a continuing everyday workout.

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Rugby

She said she enjoyed playing rugby in a childhood interview; no present-day routine is inferred.

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Small, variable breakfasts and lunch

She describes breakfast changing across films and confirms eating lunch when working; no fixed meal plan is implied.

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Oil cleanser, vitamin C serum and moisturiser

She describes Tatcha cleansing and likes Aesop moisturiser. The interview leaves exact product variants unspecified.

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Saoirse Ronan fragrance review on 2026-10-01: both interviews discuss Calvin Klein Women campaign work. The Kit reports appreciation and sharing with friends, but neither checked page establishes her own personal perfume use or signature scent. Independent gap review rechecked the original answers: liking the cedar-wood note and giving perfume to friends do not establish personal application or a named signature scent. The gap remains dated 2026-10-01.

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Stella — petit basset griffon Vendéen

British Vogue introduces the dog in her interview; present ownership or living status is not inferred.

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