IRISH teen acting sensation Saoirse Ronan sure is getting around. Fresh from her trip to the Oscars last month, where she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress thanks to her star-making role in Atonement, Saoirse immediately headed back to New Zealand, where she's filming the screen version of popular Alice Sebold hit novel The Lovely Bones.

That project, also starring Mark Wahlberg and Susan Sarandon, won't be released until next year, but there's plenty more on tap for the 14-year-old Carlow native in the meantime. She was in Australia on Monday with Catherine Zeta Jones and Guy Pearce, her co-stars in the film Death Defying Acts which is being released Down Under this week.

The film is based on the life of the magician Harry Houdini, but tells a fictional tale of how he fell in love with a Scottish psychic who is up to no good. Ronan plays Zeta Jones' daughter.

There's no release date set for the U.S. as of yet, but if you're in Brazil, Spain or Russia anytime soon the film will open in those locations during the next few weeks. At some stage, we guess, the Weinstein Company will unveil it over here.

Most eyes, of course, were on the gorgeous Zeta Jones at a press call for the film in Sydney, but Ronan got her two cents in as well. What does the busy actress really want to do?

"To go back to school. I haven't been in school for about seven months," she told reporters. A teen with a head on her shoulders!

Pearce says he had a great time working on the project. "We had a good laugh . . . Catherine's Welsh, we had an Australian director, I'm an Aussie . . . and Saoirse is a freak of nature!" he enthused. "She's so calm and mature, and she has this incredible imagination."