Saoirse Ronan wowed in a strapless tan gown as she joined the stars at the Elle Women In Hollywood event in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.

The Irish actress, 30, looked ethereal as she paired the gown with a simple pair of black strappy heels. 

Wearing her blonde locks in an effortless up do, the star kept her natural and accessorised the look with a large gold earring. 

Joining stars including Demi Moore, Julianne Moore and Selena Gomez at the event, Saoirse recently featured in ELLE’s 2024 Women in Hollywood issue as she revealed she is embracing playing flawed characters.

Saoirse admitted she now gives ‘less of a f*** about things being palatable’ and is enjoying playing characters who aren’t always the most likeable and have challenging qualities. 

Speaking about playing a flawed character in her latest project The Outrun she explained: ‘I haven’t played anyone like that anyone like that since Briony Tallis [her character from Atonement]. And I was so ready for it. 

Saoirse Ronan stunned in a strapless tan gown as she joined the stars at the Elle Women In Hollywood event in Los Angeles on Tuesday night

Wearing her blonde locks in an effortless up do, the star kept her natural and accessorised the look with a large gold earring

‘I felt confident enough in my ability, but also confident enough in who I was. I didn’t feel like I was being held down by a need to only play likable people. 

‘Because I got to shape it creatively, I just gave less of a f**k about things being palatable.’

Revealing how she was inspired by Lena Dunham’s characters in Girls, she continued: ‘We’ve gotten into this habit of filtering our personalities so much, reducing them to a line on Instagram or Twitter. 

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‘And to be able to have the opportunity to go, “Look, this person can be fully formed and have sh**y qualities and also redeeming ones, and let’s honor all of that”—I’m at the point in my life where I’m like, “That’s what I want to see onscreen”.’

The star also opened up about being a private person and her choice not to have social media as she explained: ‘I like that people don’t know my business. 

‘I just fundamentally believe that they don’t need to. I’m an actor, and the side of me that’s out there that I want people to see is in the work.’

‘I also think I was very lucky that when I was coming up, it was right before social media really took off. 

‘I can see, with the slightly younger generation, how they’ve felt the pressure to have that presence. And to be honest, that is justified, because I’ve been in audition rooms where I haven’t gotten a role because I didn’t have enough Twitter followers or whatever.’

The Irish actress, 30, looked ethereal as she paired the gown with a simple pair of black strappy heels

Saoirse recently featured in ELLE’s 2024 Women in Hollywood issue as she revealed she is embracing playing flawed characters

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‘And in the end, I was like, “Okay, well, I don’t want to be in a movie like that, anyway.” But when you’re coming up and nobody knows who you are, and you’re trying to make a name for yourself in the world that we’re in now, I can understand how you can give that too much importance. 

‘I was lucky that I just got past that. It doesn’t make sense to me why I would share my personal life with people I don’t know.’ 

Last month the actress set social media alight during her appearance on Graham Norton when she made a remark about gender-based violence while sat alongside an otherwise all-male panel of Paul, Denzel Washington and Eddie Redmayne.

As the men laughed about how they wouldn’t think to access their phone to retaliate in the event of an attack, Saoirse stunned the group into silence as she finally found a moment to speak amidst the hilarity and declared: ‘That’s what girls have to think about all the time.’ 

The brutally honest comment prompted a moment of silence from the panel before Saoirse asked the crowd: ‘Am I right, ladies?’ eliciting a huge round of applause from the studio audience.

Breaking her silence on the viral moment, Saoirse spoke to Ryan Tubridy on Virgin Radio UK, as she admitted the reaction ‘wasn’t something she expected,’ before going onto ‘urge more women to speak out’.