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Primarily noted for her roles in
period dramas since adolescence, Ronan has received various accolades,
including a Golden Globe Award and nominations for four Academy Awards and
five British Academy Film Awards.
Ronan made her acting debut in 2003 on the Irish medical drama series The
Clinic and her film debut in the romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your
Woman (2007). Her breakthrough came with the role of a precocious teenager
in Atonement (2007), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actress. Ronan followed this with starring roles of a
murdered girl seeking closure in The Lovely Bones (2009) and a teenage
assassin in Hanna (2011), and the supporting role of a baker in The Grand
Budapest Hotel (2014). She garnered critical acclaim for playing a
homesick Irish immigrant in 1950s New York in Brooklyn (2015), the
eponymous high school senior in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (2017), and Jo
March in Gerwig's Little Women (2019). Ronan was nominated for the Academy
Award for Best Actress for all three performances, and won a Golden Globe
Award for Best Actress for Lady Bird.
On stage, Ronan portrayed Abigail Williams in the 2016 Broadway revival of
The Crucible. In the same year, she was featured by Forbes in two of their
30 Under 30 lists. Ronan has spoken out about social and political issues
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