FrameThrower · Actors · Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Ronan
12 films · 719 frames · top-billed in 11 · 2007–2023
Born 12 April 1994 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Saoirse Una Ronan is an American-born Irish actress. Primarily known for her work in period dramas since adolescence, she has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and nominations for four Academy Awards and seven British Academy Film Awards.
Ronan made her acting debut in 2003 on the Irish medical drama series The Clinic and had her breakthrough role as a precocious teenager in the period drama film Atonement (2007), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her career progressed with starring roles in The Lovely Bones (2009) and Hanna (2011) and a supporting role in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 12 films · 719 frames · top-billed in 11 · 2007–2023
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy2018
- Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture2016
- Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor2010
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer2010
How their films are shot
Measured across 719 frames from the 12 films we hold. This is the look of the work Saoirse takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 12 films we hold, 43% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Saoirse takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Foe
2023 · Hen
Ammonite
2020 · Charlotte Murchison
Little Women
2019 · Jo March
Mary Queen of Scots
2018 · Mary Stuart
Lady Bird
2017 · Lady Bird McPherson
Brooklyn
2015 · Eilis Lacey
Lost River
2014 · Rat
Byzantium
2012 · Eleanor Webb
Hanna
2011 · Hanna
The Lovely Bones
2009 · Susie Salmon
Atonement
2007 · Briony Tallis (Age 13)
Loving Vincent
2017 · Marguerite Gachet
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 719 frames from Saoirse Ronan's 12 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.