Saoirse Ronan of Little Women Marries Long-Term Partner in Secret Ceremony

Saoirse Ronan has reportedly married her long-term partner Jack Lowden.

According to the Irish Independent, the pair wed in an intimate ceremony in Edinburgh, Scotland, last weekend, attended by only a handful of their closest friends and family. The outlet reported that the register of Scottish civil marriages shows Saoirse Una Ronan married Jack Andrew Lowden at the Edinburgh Central Registrar’s Office.

The Irish actor, 30, had her breakthrough role playing Keira Knightley’s younger sister in 2007’s acclaimed drama Atonement. She met Lowden in 2018 on the set of Mary Queen of Scots, where she portrayed Mary Stuart, and Lowden played her husband, Lord Darnley.

Ronan, a four-time Oscar nominee, reportedly purchased a home with Lowden in west Cork in 2020. The couple resides together in north London with their terrier, Fran.

Rumors of a possible wedding began a year ago when fans speculated that Lowden had proposed during a hiking holiday in Scotland in July 2023. He posted a photo from the summit of Ben Vrackie in Perthshire, Scotland, showing a hand, which fans believed might belong to Ronan, adorned with a diamond ring. At the time, fans flooded the post with congratulatory messages, but the couple neither addressed the comments nor confirmed the speculation.

More recently, the couple shared a picture together at the Glastonbury festival in June. In the image, Lowden is seen wrapping his arms around the Ladybird actor as they watched the stage from the crowd.

Ronan began her career at the age of 13 in Atonement, a role that earned her an Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category. Her subsequent Oscar nominations were for Brooklyn (2015), Lady Bird (2017), and Little Women (2019).

Lowden has previously reflected on being blown away by Ronan while working with her on Mary Queen of Scots. “The woman is a force of nature, on- and off-screen, and utterly fearless and a brilliant leader as well,” he said in an interview with the i newspaper last year. Lowden continued, “My first love is actors, and when you’re given a Ferrari like her, it’s all about how you make everything good for the Ferrari to show off. Don’t make a Ferrari do what a Renault Clio does. It’s a dreadful analogy but they’re like gold dust, good actors. When there’s someone like that, you just have to facilitate them and you will get gold. And my God, did we.”

Lowden’s production company, Arcade Pictures, which he set up with Ronan and producer Dominic Norris, is behind their upcoming film The Outrun. The film stars Ronan as a recovering alcoholic returning to the Orkney Islands and is slated for release in September this year.

Source: Irish Independent, i