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Quiz: How much do you know about Saoirse Ronan?

The Irish actress has a new film out this month.

SAOIRSE RONAN HAS entered the race for next year’s Oscars. 

The Outrun, which will be released later this month, sees the Irish actress playing a young woman struggling to recover from addiction.

The film – and Ronan’s performance – have been highly praised by critics, and the role could be the one that finally sees her win the biggest award in Hollywood. 

She has become one of the biggest film stars in the world, playing a variety of characters and accumulating four Oscar nominations before she turned 30. 

But how well do you know her?

Saoirse Ronan is from Co Carlow, but where was she born?
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Dublin
Donegal

New York
London
In which of these RTÉ dramas did she make her television debut?
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Ballykissangel
The Clinic

Fair City
Love/Hate
How old was she when she received her first Oscar nomination?
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13
17

21
25
For which of these films did Saoirse Ronan NOT receive an Oscar nomination?
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Atonement
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Brooklyn

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The Lovely Bones
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Lady Bird
In a 2011 thriller, she played a teenager raised in the wilderness to become a perfect assassin. What was her character's name, and the film's name?
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Lucy
Alice

Morgan
Hanna
She played Mary Queen of Scots in the 2018 biopic. But who starred opposite her as Queen Elizabeth I?
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Cate Blanchett
Margot Robbie

Kate Winslet
Emma Stone
Which of these directors has Saoirse Ronan never worked with?
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Christopher Nolan
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Peter Jackson

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Wes Anderson
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Greta Gerwig
She famously starred in the music video for Ed Sheeran's Galway Girl, but which of these other artists did Saoirse Ronan also appear in a music video for?
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Taylor Swift
Niall Horan

Coldplay
Hozier
The actress got married earlier this summer. Which of these actors did she wed?
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Josh O'Connor
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Callum Turner

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Barry Keoghan
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Jack Lowden
Finally, which March sister did she play in the 2019 screen adaptation of Little Women?
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Meg
Jo

Beth
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