Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse Ronan’s bleached brows in ‘Hanna’ sparks beauty trend

By mattwalker | April 4, 2011 4:57 pm | Beauty, Celebrity, Eric Bana, Fashion, Featured, Saoirse Ronan | 1 Comment

Designers Marc Jacobs and the Mulleavy sisters at Rodarte created the slightly alien look of bleached brow models in their Spring 2010 collections. Lady Gaga has bleached her dark brows a few times. Gap-toothed supermodel Lara Stone has inspired lookalike models to bleach their brows. And actress Rooney Mara had hers bleached to play the punky Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”

But Irish actress Saoirse Ronan (pronounced Sir-Sha) may have started it all.

Ronan’s blonde brows were lightened for her lead role in Hanna, directed by her Atonement helmer Joe Wright. She plays a strange other worldly teenager who was raised in the Finnish wilderness and trained by her father (Eric Bana), an ex-CIA assassin, to be a ruthless killer. Released on a mission that will change her life, Hanna journeys across Europe followed by agents with orders to kill her from CIA operative Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett). Hanna is faced with finding out who she is and figuring out what her life will be in this gripping action thriller.

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Saoirse Ronan would love to play a new character in ‘The Hobbit’

By mattwalker | March 28, 2011 10:16 am | Eric Bana, Featured, Hanna, Joe Wright, Peter Jackson, Saoirse Ronan, The Hobbit | 1 Comment

Saoirse Ronan is a bit coy about her rumored role in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. So don’t count your chicks before they’re hatched, LOTR fans. And her first name — for those of you trying to figure it out — is pronounced Sher-Sha.

She tells The Dish Rag: “Nothing is confirmed yet. If I end up playing a part in The Hobbit, yes, it would be great. I know Pete and Fran and Phillipa are adding new lots of new characters to the film that aren’t in the book. Well, a few, anyway. And if they’d have a part for me, I would love to go back to new Zealand and spend some time with them.”

And what about those Snow White rumors?

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