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Only a few years after her acting debut in 2003 on the Irish medical drama series The Clinic, Saoirse Ronan was offered the role of Susie Salmon in The Lovely Bones, a 2009 supernatural thriller film directed by Peter Jackson.

Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon in The Lovely Bones, capturing a poignant moment as she looks towards the afterlife (Credit: Paramount Pictures)

According to The Los Angeles Times, her parents were hesitant to accept the part because of the rape and murder content in the film based on Alice Sebold’s award-winning and bestselling 2002 novel of the same name.

Filming Challenges and Saoirse’s Maturity Beyond Her Years

Production for the movie commenced in October 2007, filming in Pennsylvania, USA, and New Zealand. During the shoot, Saoirse was just 13 years old, celebrating her 14th birthday on April 12, 2008.

Saoirse Ronan posing with her father Paul Ronan at the Irish premiere of The Lovely Bones...

Saoirse Una Ronan is an American-Irish actress. She is best known for her distinct roles in period dramas since adolescence and has received numerous prestigious accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and five British Academy Film Awards.

Saoirse Ronan Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Saoirse Ronan was born on April 12, 1994 (Saorise Ronan’s age 29) in the Bronx, New York to Monica and Paul Ronan. She is an only child of her Irish parents, who are both originally from Dublin. Her father was employed in construction and was bartending before training as an actor in New York, while her mother worked as a nanny and acted when she was younger.

Initially, Ronan’s parents were undocumented immigrants who had fled from Ireland as a result of the recession in the 1980s, and they struggled financially during their time spent in New York.

Twice Shy, an independent Irish film that tackles the topical subject of abortion is delighted to announce that is will screen in Los Angeles at the Irish Screen America festival in September, and at the Indie Cork Festival in Ireland in October. The film features top Irish talent such as Ardal O' Hanlon and Pat Shortt, with leading roles from Shane Murray-Corcoran and Iseult Casey, who makes her screen debut. Twice Shy successfully premiered to a packed audience at the Galway Film Fleadh in July, becoming one of the first films to sell out there. The film is a modern coming of age drama that revolves around a young, unmarried couple who set off on a road trip from Ireland to London as the result of an unplanned pregnancy. The film portrays their journey, through the ups and downs of their relationship and features support from a stellar cast including Ardal O’ Hanlon (Fr.

Twice Shy, an independent Irish movie, that tackles the topical subject of abortion, is near completion, after less than a year in production. The film features top Irish talent such as Ardal O' Hanlon and Pat Shortt. Twice Shy is a modern coming of age drama, that centres around a young couple who set off on a road trip from Ireland to London. The young, unmarried couple is played by Shane Murray Corcoran (King Arthur, Angelas Ashes) and Iseult Casey, who makes her debut on the big screen. They take the trip as the result of an unplanned pregnancy and have some life changing decisions to make. The film portrays their journey, through the ups and downs of their relationship, and features support from a stellar cast including Ardal O’ Hanlon (After Hours, Fr. Ted), Pat Shortt (The Guard, Garage), Mary Conroy (Ros na Run) and Paul Ronan (Love/Hate...

Following up his award winning debut feature, Trampoline, cameras have started rolling on director Tom Ryan's latest indie feature, Twice Shy, a comedy/drama about a young couple who set off on a trip to London after an unplanned pregnancy disrupts their lives. Taking in locations in both Ireland and England, the first stop for the production is Ryan’s home town of Nenagh, Co. Tipperary (much of Trampoline was shot there), where they will spend the next filming in and around the surrounding area, including Lough Derg, which was the first location to be filmed at. The team behind the movie, including London based producer, Fionn Greger, are also pleased to announce two more cast members, with Paul Ronan (Love/Hate) and Gemma-Leah Devereaux (Casualty) joining leads Murray Corcoran and Iseult Casey.

Year: 2009

Directors: Conor Horgan

Writers: Conor Horgan

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Review by: Rick McGrath

Rating: 8 out of 10

We’re two months into a barely post-apocalyptic Ireland. The cause is an unexplained lack of electricity, the setting is very rural, and the plot is concerned with the quick, yet inevitable decline of the unprepared into the unimaginable. The times they are a-changin’.

Unlike the usual post-apocalyptic fare in which the hero sets off on some real or imagined quest against a backdrop of horror, in One Hundred Mornings our ineffectual characters basically sit around and wait for the shockwaves of the electrical meltdown to come to them. And come they do. And, sort of surprisingly, in pretty well the expected ways. However, it’s both the upside and the downside of 100M that we experience the physical and emotional toll of this social change not through glorious shots of urban abandonment and carnage,...

Irish teen sensation Saoirse Ronan is growing up fast, as you can see from our picture taken last month. The Oscar nominated actress, only 15, sure knows how to work a red carpet too, blowing kisses to the press with aplomb. Saoirse’s dad, the Irish actor Paul Ronan, is rightfully protective of his girl given her level of fame. Given that her star continues to rise in Hollywood she certainly would be considered a good catch for some lucky guy . . . but Daddy will be guarding the door, so potential suitors better beware! "The one thing you would worry about is when she does meet somebody, that it's for the right reasons, and I'm sure it will be. But you have to watch out for that,” Paul told the press during the Irish premiere of her latest movie, The Lovely Bones, last week in Dublin. “You've got to be a little...

Saoirse Ronan stole the film in Atonement, and now she's at it again with The Lovely Bones. Not bad for a 15-year-old who likes to hang out with her family dog and eat crisps

Saoirse Ronan turned 15 last April and runs on a different clock from the rest of us. She says she's glad she didn't start acting young, because it might have screwed her up and burnt her out. It's not as if she began acting at, say, three or something. She waited ­until she was eight, which was more sensible, because when you reach "our age" (she includes me in this) you at least know what you're doing, and in any case, things didn't start getting weird until a few years ago, with the Oscar nomination. "So I'm glad I'm only really starting now," she says firmly. "Because it means I can be seen as an actor as opposed to a child ­actor.

Top actress and Oscar winner Susan Sarandon has tipped Irish starlet Saoirse Ronan for an Oscar nomination for her lead role in 'The Lovely Bones.' Sarandon, who also stars in the movie about a young girl looking down on her family after her murder, said that the movie had some standout performances. "I definitely think Saoirse Ronan and Stanley Tucci (who plays the killer in the film) should be nominated," said Sarandon, who won her own Oscar for her role in film 'Dead Man Walking.' Ronan and Sarandon attended the premier of 'Lovely Bones' in Sydney yesterday and the Irish actress said Sarandon (63), who plays her grandmother in the film, continued her motherly ways off screen. "Susan did look after me," she said. “Just being around someone as experienced as that is great." Ronan was born in New York and is the daughter of Irish actor Paul Ronan.

Interview / The lovely Saoirse Ronan carries 'The Lovely Bones' / Click here Irish actress Saoirse Ronan has a new fan, "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson. Pattinson attended the La premier of Ronan's new film, "The Lovely Bones," last night and tried to keep a low profile. However he was spotted by actress Katerina Graham “At the premiere of lovely bones and robert pattinson is here girls!” she wrote on her Twitter page. “Should I kidnap him for the fans? He’s sitting a few rows from me.” Pattinson skipped out on the red carpet but Saoirse made a star turn in a gorgeous glittery dress. Saoirse is a hot tip for the Oscar nominations for her role as Susie Salmon in "The Lovely Bones." She received multiple award nominations for her role as the young Briony Tallis in the film "Atonement." Saoires, who is an only child, was born in...