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This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross.

Our guest is four-time Oscar nominee, Sersher Ronan,

the star of Little Women, Lady Bird, and Atonement,

stars in two very different new films,

The Outrun and Blitz.

She spoke with fresh airs and Marie Boldenado.

Sersher Ronan's performance as a precocious young girl in the war drama Atonement, got

her her first Oscar nomination.

She was only 13 at the time, and three other nominations were to follow, one for the

2015 film Brooklyn, about a young Irish woman in the 1950s, torn between her new life

in the U.S. and her homeland. She got two nominations for the film she made with Greta Gerwig,

Lady Bird in 2017, and Little Women in 2019. Her other movies include The Grand Budapest

Hotel, The Lovely Bones, and Mary Queen of Scots.

This fall, she has two films in theaters.

In the movie Blitz by the director Steve McQueen, Ronan plays a mother living in London with her young son and elderly father,

all trying to survive the German bombing campaigns during World War

II. And in the film The Outrun, she plays a young woman whose life is derailed because of her

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