What are the best Saoirse Ronan movies? This list features the greatest Saoirse Ronan roles of all time, ranked with the help of fans like you. Saoirse Ronan's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. From the Oscar-award winning Little Women to her voice acting role in the Ghibli film, The Secret World of Arrietty, Saoirse Ronan has been in a ton of great films. So, what’s her greatest performance of all?
If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Saoirse Ronan films to end the squabble once and for all. If you think the best Saoirse Ronan role isn't at the top, then upvote it so it has the chance to become number one. This list of Ronan’s filmography includes Blitz, Brooklyn, Lady Bird, and many additional films as well.
Latest additions: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Loving Vincent, Blitz
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1Raised by her father (Eric Bana) in the Finnish wilderness, teenage Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) has trained all her life to be the perfect assassin. Her father sends her on a mission, and she stealthily makes her way across Europe while evading agents sent after her by a ruthless operative named Marissa (Cate Blanchett), who once worked with Hanna's father. As she draws closer to her target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and begins to question her humanity.- Released: 2011
- Directed by: Joe Wright
- 2In the indie dramedy film Lady Bird, Saoirse Ronan portrays Christine Lady Bird McPherson, a high school senior from Sacramento. She navigates her way through the trials and tribulations of adolescence, clashing with her mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf), who works tirelessly to keep their family afloat after Lady Bird's father (Tracy Letts) loses his job. The movie, directed by Greta Gerwig, is punctuated by Lady Bird's interactions with her best friend Julie (Beanie Feldstein) and her romantic interests (Lucas Hedges and Timothée Chalamet). With five Academy Award nominations, it remains a compelling exploration of coming-of-age in early 2000s America.
- Released: 2017
- Directed by: Greta Gerwig
3A poignant rendition of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, Little Women is an enchanting drama set in the backdrop of Civil War-era Massachusetts. The narrative revolves around the March sisters - spirited Jo (Saoirse Ronan), nurturing Meg (Emma Watson), shy Beth (Eliza Scanlen), and charming Amy (Florence Pugh) - as they navigate life's joys and sorrows. Helmed by Greta Gerwig, this 2019 adaptation won an Oscar for Best Costume Design. It skillfully portrays the sisters' individual pursuits of love, art, and purpose while highlighting their unyielding bond amidst societal expectations.- Released: 2019
- Directed by: Greta Gerwig
4After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family (Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz) -- and her killer (Stanley Tucci). As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Peter Jackson
5This sweeping English drama, based on the book by Ian McEwan, follows the lives of young lovers Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) and Robbie Turner (James McAvoy). When the couple are torn apart by a lie constructed by Cecilia's jealous younger sister, Briony (Saoirse Ronan), all three of them must deal with the consequences. Robbie is the hardest hit, since Briony's deception results in his imprisonment, but hope for Cecilia and her beau increases when their paths cross during World War II.- Released: 2007
- Directed by: Joe Wright
6Denounced by his wife as a possible spy in 1939, Janusz (Jim Sturgess) finds himself in a remote Siberian labor camp. Faced with brutal conditions inside and out, Janusz is determined to escape. A blizzard provides him with the perfect opportunity, and he and a small group of fellow prisoners make a break for it. Escape, however, is the easy part, for Janusz and his companions face a 4,000 mile trek on foot through the frozen Himalayas before they can truly be free.- Released: 2010
- Directed by: Peter Weir
7Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary Stuart defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. But Scotland and England fall under the rule of the compelling Elizabeth I. Each young Queen beholds her sister in fear and fascination. Rivals in power and in love, and female regents in a masculine world, the two must decide how to play the game of marriage versus independence.- Released: 2018
- Directed by: Josie Rourke
8As conflict in Europe escalates, an American teen (Saoirse Ronan) fights to survive in the English countryside.- Released: 2013
- Directed by: Kevin Macdonald
- 9Earth has been colonized by the Souls, an alien race that wipes out the minds of humans and turns their bodies into hosts for interstellar travelers. Most of mankind has been eradicated, but some, like Melanie (Saoirse Ronan) and her family, have survived and are hiding. Melanie is captured by a Seeker and has a Soul named Wanderer implanted in her body, but she refuses to relinquish control. When Wanderer betrays her people to save Melanie, the Seeker sets out in relentless pursuit.
- Released: 2013
- Directed by: Andrew Niccol
10A tiny teen (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live under a house's floorboards and survive by borrowing items from the home's human inhabitants.- Released: 2010
- Directed by: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
11Mayhem follows when two female vampires (Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan), on the run from a kindred group, take refuge at a seaside British community.- Released: 2012
- Directed by: Neil Jordan
12For generations a massive generator has sustained the needs of the underground city of Ember. But the generator was built to last only 200 years, and as its lights start to flicker and fade, it remains to two youths, Lina Mayfleet (Saoirse Ronan) and Doon Harrow (Harry Treadaway), to follow a cryptic series of clues that will restore light to to the place.- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Gil Kenan
13Young Irish immigrant Eilis Lace (Saoirse Ronan) navigates her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother's home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. But soon, her past disrupts her new vivacity, and Eilis must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.- Released: 2015
- Directed by: John Crowley
14On Chesil Beach is a 2017 British drama film directed by Dominic Cooke, based on the book by Ian McEwan. Young spouses Florence (Saoirse Ronan) and Edward (Billy Howle) destroy their marriage because of fear of intimate relations.- Released: 2018
- Directed by: Dominic Cooke
- 15In the 1930s, the Grand Budapest Hotel is a popular European ski resort, presided over by concierge Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes). Zero, a junior lobby boy, becomes Gustave's friend and protege. Gustave prides himself on providing first-class service to the hotel's guests, including satisfying the sexual needs of the many elderly women who stay there. When one of Gustave's lovers dies mysteriously, Gustave finds himself the recipient of a priceless painting and the chief suspect in her murder.
- Released: 2014
- Directed by: Wes Anderson
16A mysterious loner (James Gandolfini) leads two teenagers (Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel), who have been sent to kill him, on an odyssey of self-examination.- Released: 2011
- Directed by: Geoffrey Fletcher
- 17Mystery surrounds the death of famed painter Vincent van Gogh in 1890 France.
- Released: 2017
- Directed by: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
18Mother Nature (Saoirse Ronan) loves to cause mischief, and she steps in to help two love-starved souls find happiness. She helps an aging professional woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) who has no luck with love find her match with a much younger man (Paul Rudd). As their relationship blossoms into something beyond physical attraction, her adolescent daughter (Tracey Ullman) begins to question the tingling sensations she experiences whenever she is in the company of a handsome local boy.- Released: 2007
- Directed by: Amy Heckerling
19The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey is a 2007 British film scripted and directed by Bill Clark. It was adapted from a 1995 book of the same name, written by Susan Wojciechowski and illustrated by P. J. Lynch, from which the film was adapted.- Released: 2007
- Directed by: Bill Clark
20Upon arriving in Edinburgh, Scotland for a series of mind-boggling performances, master illusionist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) offers an impressive cash reward to any supposed psychic who can accurately tell him his late mother's exact last words. Gorgeous swindler Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) rises to the challenge and engages Houdini in a dangerous flirtation that will blur the line between reality and paranoia -- and test the very limits of his skepticism.- Released: 2007
- Directed by: Gillian Armstrong
- 21In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on a journey back home as Rita searches for him.
- Released: 2024
- Directed by: Steve McQueen
