Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan credits her mother with helping her to avoid the pitfalls of child fame - as she stars in a very grown-up cover shoot

Saoirse Ronan may have earned global success at an early age after being nominated for her first Oscar when she just was 13, but the actress has credited her ability to cope with the pressures of her rising stardom to her mother's presence on set during her adolescence.

The 21-year-old, who is nominated for an Academy Award again this year, for her leading role in the 2015 film Brooklyn, told New York magazine that the benefit of a strong parental influence is actually something she has in common with fellow former child star Jodie Foster.  

'I was talking to someone who started out as a child actor, last night, and went on to do incredible things, and we were both saying it was a huge, huge influence to have our mothers with us when you were young and mothers who came from a more of an ethical standpoint than a business one,' explained the actress, who covers this week's issue of the magazine. 

Motherly love: Saoirse Ronan has revealed that it was her mother Monica's presence on set that helped keep her grounded when she was a critically acclaimed child star 

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So we weren't too surprised when Saoirse Ronan nabbed the cover of New York magazine's Spring Fashion issue. In it she wears a dress pulled from Proenza Schouler's Spring 2016 runway.

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Porcelain beauty: The 21-year-old Oscar nominee stars on the cover of this week's New York magazine 

'To have someone with you from 10 to 19 when you're on set, who has perspective and is only there to look out for you, it really means that you have a more realistic way of looking at this entire world,' she continued. '[It was] Jodie Foster. She's absolutely amazing.' 

Saoirse, who was born in the Bronx, but raised primarily in Ireland, was nominated for an Oscar as a teen for her role as Briony in the 2007 English drama Atonement, which also starred Keira Knightley and James McAvoy.  

However, despite her critical success, the Irish actress said she didn't really feel the pressures of Hollywood.  

Support system: Saoirse is pictured with her mother Monica Ronan (right) and producer Andrew Karpen (left) at the Atonement premiere party in 2007 

Life-changing role: The former child actress, who is pictured at the Venice film festival in 2007, was the star of the film Atonement 

Rising star: Saoirse played Briony in the 2007 film, which also starred James McAvoy, and was nominated for an Oscar at the age of 13 for her work 

'I feel it a bit now, and I could see a change when Hanna came out, because it was the first sort of commercial success I'd had, apart from Atonement, and I was very young then - a lot of that went over my head,' she recalled.  

'Part of it was that I'd grown up outside LA so I wasn't exposed to the competitive side of that world, where you feel like you have to do a thousand and one things in order to keep up with everyone else.

'I didn't have that pressure of feeling like I needed to be exposed more or do a big studio film in order to get more work. It was down to the type of work I wanted to do,' she added. 

Sweeping romance: Saoirse is nominated for an Oscar for her role in the 2015 film Brooklyn. The actress plays Eilis, a young woman from Ireland who falls in love with an Italian man after immigrating to New York

Blonde beauty: Saoirse is pictured at a screening of Brooklyn in Los Angeles last month (left) and at this year's SAG Awards (right)

Amazing mentor: Saoirse revealed that she recently bonded with former child actress Jodie Foster, who is pictured in the 1974 film Paper Moon, about the importance of having their mothers on set with them 

In Brooklyn, Saoirse plays Eilis, a young woman from Ireland who falls in love with an Italian man after emmigrating to New York, and while her character faced extreme home sickness at first, the actress said she still feels a 'very strong connection to the city' even though she moved away when she was three years old. 

Saoirse explained that she appreciates the fact that everyone else in the city has faced similar struggles, which makes her feel like she is 'never really alone'. 

The star, who is making her Broadway debut in The Crucible on March 1, noted that half the cast in the play are Irish and English.

'I actually feel closer to Ireland here than I did when I lived anywhere else,' she said.