Saoirse Ronan, 13, was nominated for her first Golden Globe today as best supporting actress for "Atonement." The actress, who is Irish, was in Pennsylvania, where she's filming "The Lovely Bones," when she heard the good news. "I was actually in bed and the phone rang and then I heard my dad shout, 'Yes!!' and I ran out to him and gave him a big hug. Then he was jumping up and down."

Since we're going to hear plenty from Ronan as the awards season heats up--she's astonishing as young Briony--I asked her what she wants people to know about her. "I think the first thing is, I want them to pronounce my name. There have been loads of people saying, how do you pronounce your name? It's Saoirse, it would be pronounced Sersha [it rhymes with inertia]."

Is there anything else we should know? "I used to play with Polly Pockets when I was younger, and I used to go off on my own and make up little lives for each of them. They used to have little affairs with each other." Wait. Aren't Polly Pockets all girls? "They are all girls. But do you know Woody from Toy Story? I got a little toy from McDonald's when I was younger, and I've got Arthur, who's a cartoon character, and I used them as boyfriends. I don't play with them now. Don't put that in the article please."

"And also, I get my camcorder when I'm at home. I invite my friends over for a play date. They think they're on a play date but they're not. They're coming over to make a low budget movie. We have one that we wrote, my best friend Hannah and I, and we called it 'Ed the Baker.' It's about a baker called Ed and he has a child and a wife and his wife goes off to work one day and he's left with the baby. He comes outside, and the whole bakery is a mess and there are things that have been stolen. He calls the police, and then we realize he just wanted the insurance money. Hopefully now, anyone who reads this they're not going to take the copyright on me or anything."

"It's a really precious work of art. We've sent the script off to DreamWorks and Working Title." Really? "No, no! Don't believe a word I say. I'm Irish."