The Bronx born but Dublin and Carlow raised Ronan, who has four academy award nominations, decided to marry her long-term beau, fellow actor and Scotsman Jack Lowden, on the weekend of July 20 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Only a handful of the couple’s closest friends were present — and all the guests were sworn to secrecy.
The 34-year-old Scottish star who landed his first major role, the lead in the National Theatre of Scotland’s 2010 revival of the Olivier award-winning Black Watch, recently produced a movie The Outrun, with his wife Ronan.
“I read The Outrun in lockdown and just turned to Sersh and said: ‘You’ve got to play this part.’ We were both producers, as well as Sersh being in it. It was the most amazing experience – in particular, to watch her in that role,” he told The Guardian.
He added that Ronan, who he calls ‘Sersh’, was” utterly phenomenal” in her role in the movie, which is due to be released on September 27 later this year.
Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden at the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 29, 2022 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Graham Denholm/Getty Images)
“We would love to produce more stuff, but we’re taking a beat at the moment, because acting is getting in the way,” Lowden added.
He met Ronan two years after landing his big break in the BBC adaptation of War and Peace in 2016.
The Co Carlow star Ronan and Lowden share a €2.8m home in Islington, north London, with their terrier, Fran.
In 2020, Ronan was reported to have purchased a two-bedroom waterfront cottage in Ballydehob, west Cork.
The actors fell in love in 2018 during the filming of Mary Queen of Scots in which Ronan played Mary and Lowden played Darnley, Mary’s second husband.
Lowden also starred alongside Gary Oldman in spy drama Slow Horses.
On whether it is difficult to be married to another actor, Mr Lowden said “no, being with an actor is wonderful, because we understand each other”.
“We’re quite odd people, actors. We’re strange animals. So it just makes complete sense, and I understand why there are loads of other actors with actors… And it’s really useful for running lines, rather than with, like, your mum. Is it hard to maintain privacy? I don’t know,” he told The Guardian.
While being born in England, Lowden maintains that he is a true Scotsman, after his family moved back to the northernmost UK country during his youth.
“I consider myself 100pc Scottish, for sure,” he told The Guardian.
“My parents are Scottish. It’s where it was brought up. It’s where I was made. And it’s true that my first screen role was an Irn-Bru advert. I did it when I was 18 at drama school and I think it was played during half-time in the Champions League final or something.”
“I think of it like national service.”