Not exactly your average teenager

SAOIRSE RONAN has come a long way since her first movie ‘I Could Never be Your Woman’ starring Michele Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd.

It never really made it big, but things have changed since then. A lot. Nowadays adding Ronan’s name to a cast list seems to almost guarantee its success — from Atonement to The Lovely Bones, and now with Hanna and three more movies in the can, she’s certainly on a roll.

There’s no doubt the Carlow girl was born for the acting life — a true optimist, she probably wouldn’t have stuck the pace if she wasn’t. She sees beyond the demands of movie sets and is able to take something positive out of almost any situation.