Queen Of Hearts! Saoirse's Royal Romance

Love reigns for the Irish star as she continues to shine

With not one, not two, but three Academy Award nominations to her name, Saoirse Ronan is one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood right now.

At just 24, she’s in the enviable position of flitting between Los Angeles, New York and London, picking and choosing which roles she accepts, what star studded events she’ll attend and which gowns she’ll don on the red carpet.

It’s the kind of life that would lead some youngsters to lose their heads, but not Saoirse. “I’m a homebody,” the New York-born, Irish-raised actress confides, adding that she’d prefer to knit, cook and read history books at home in Dublin than party all night in Hollywood. “It’s lovely to have a normal life.”

However, the actress – who spent time in New Zealand as a 13-year-old, starring in Sir Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones – was all up for losing her head, literally, in the new biopic Mary Queen of Scots.