Saoirse Ronan will join Cate Blanchett, Carole King, Steve Martin and Oprah Winfrey as a presenter at next month's Tony Awards in New York.
In her stage debut, Carlow actress Ronan is currently starring in the new production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible on Broadway. The Crucible is based on the Salem witch trials of 1692 with Ronan's character Abigail Williams the teenager who tries to use the town's terror to her own advantage.
The production at the Walter Kerr Theatre has been shortlisted in the Best Revival of a Play category at the Tonys, known as 'the Oscars of the theatre world'. The awards, hosted by James Corden, take place at the Beacon Theatre on Sunday June 12.
Saoirse Ronan in The Crucible
Gabriel Byrne is nominated for a Tony for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his role as James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night at New York's Roundabout Theatre.
The Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning stage classic about the Tyrone family's descent into crisis over the course of a day also stars John Gallagher, Jr, Michael Shannon and Jessica Lange.
(L-R) Gabriel Byrne, Jessica Lange, Michael Shannon and John Gallagher, Jr take a bow
The production is also nominated in the Best Revival of a Play category. In the Best Actor category, Byrne faces stiff competition from Jeff Daniels for Blackbird, Frank Langella for The Father, Tim Pigott-Smith for King Charles III and Mark Strong for A View from the Bridge.
Sixty-six-year-old Byrne was previously nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for A Moon for the Misbegotten in 2000.
