A 13-year-old actor from Carlow, Saoirse Ronan, has landed the coveted central part in the new film from Peter Jackson, the Oscar-winning director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Securing such an important role continues the meteoric rise of the young Irish actor over the past four years. She has been chosen to play Susie Salmon, a young girl who is murdered but continues to observe her family on Earth after her death, in The Lovely Bones.
The film will be based on the 2002 best-selling novel by Alice Sebold.
