Kerry Condon
{{short description|Irish actress (born 1983)}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2011}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Kerry Condon
| image = Kerry_Condon_The_Last_Station_(Cropped).jpg
| caption = Condon in 2010
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|1|9|df=y}}
| birth_place = Thurles, Ireland
| death_date =
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| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1999–present
}}
Kerry Condon (born 9 January 1983) is an Irish actress. She was the youngest actress to play Ophelia in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet (2001–2002).{{cite web|last=Canfield|first=David|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/kerry-condon-banshees-of-inisherin-profile-awards-insider|title=Kerry Condon Arrives, Brilliantly, in The Banshees of Inisherin|work=Vanity Fair|date=13 September 2022|access-date=17 December 2022|archive-date=27 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927085641/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/kerry-condon-banshees-of-inisherin-profile-awards-insider|url-status=live}} She played Octavia of the Julii in Rome (2005–2007),{{cite web|title=Kerry Condon|url=http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/kerry-condon/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123171914/http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/kerry-condon/|website=Yahoo! Movies|archive-date=23 November 2011}} Stacey Ehrmantraut in Better Call Saul (2015–2022), and was the voice of the artificial intelligence entity F.R.I.D.A.Y. in various films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Condon has collaborated with Martin McDonagh in the plays The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001) and The Cripple of Inishmaan (2009), as well as the films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). For her performance in the last of these, she received several accolades, including the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.{{Cite news |last=Buchanan |first=Kyle |date=1 February 2023 |title=Kerry Condon: 'I Don't Think Anything Has Ever Come Easy to Me' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/movies/kerry-condon-banshees-of-inisherin.html |access-date=21 February 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=21 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221163139/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/movies/kerry-condon-banshees-of-inisherin.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=20 February 2023 |title=BAFTA winner Kerry Condon is The Banshee of Inisherin's secret MVP |url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/kerry-condon-bafta-win-banshees-of-inisherin-2023 |access-date=21 February 2023 |website=British GQ |language=en-GB |archive-date=21 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221163139/https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/kerry-condon-bafta-win-banshees-of-inisherin-2023 |url-status=live }}
Career
In 2001 at the age of 18, Condon landed the role of Mairead in The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh which she performed at the Royal Shakespeare Company and in 2006 at the Lyceum Theatre in New York.{{cite news |url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/theater/reviews/28inis.html?pagewanted=all |title=Theater Review: Terrorism Meets Absurdism in a Rural Village in Ireland |work=The New York Times |date=28 February 2006 |access-date=2 July 2012 |archive-date=13 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213172705/http://theater.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/theater/reviews/28inis.html?pagewanted=all |url-status=live }} For the production she recorded the song "The Patriot Game" with The Pogues. That same year, Condon played the role of Ophelia in Hamlet, making her the youngest actress to ever play that role for the RSC. In 2009, she appeared in another play by Martin McDonagh, The Cripple of Inishmaan, for which she won a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.
Condon's movie roles include Kate Kelly, Ned Kelly's outlaw sister, in 2003's Ned Kelly and an appearance in the 2003 Irish independent film Intermission with Cillian Murphy, Kelly Macdonald, and Colin Farrell. She was in the 2005 Jet Li action-thriller Unleashed.{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/286244/Kerry-Condon/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327051023/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/286244/Kerry-Condon/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 March 2013|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|last=Tobey|first=Matthew|date=2013|title=Kerry Condon|access-date=1 July 2012}} In 2005, Condon co-starred as Octavia of the Julii, sister of the Roman Emperor Augustus, in the HBO/BBC series Rome.
She then appeared as Masha, a Tolstoian, in The Last Station, a film about the last months of Leo Tolstoy's life with Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer, before playing jockey Rosie Shanahan in the 2012 TV series Luck. Condon appeared in the season 4 premiere of the post-apocalyptic zombie drama The Walking Dead playing the role of the character Clara, which aired 13 October 2013.{{cite web |title=Who's the Irish woman in the new series of the Walking Dead? |url=http://news.ie.msn.com/entertainment/who%E2%80%99s-the-irish-woman-in-the-new-series-of-the-walking-dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019003746/http://news.ie.msn.com/entertainment/who%E2%80%99s-the-irish-woman-in-the-new-series-of-the-walking-dead |archive-date=19 October 2013 |access-date=19 October 2013}} She voiced the artificial intelligence F.R.I.D.A.Y., Iron Man's replacement for J.A.R.V.I.S. in the Marvel Studios films Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame.{{cite news|title=That Irish accent in Avengers Age of Ultron is actress Kerry Condon!|url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/technow/movies/that-irish-accent-in-avengers-age-of-ultron-is-actress-kerry-condon-325713.html|work=Irish Examiner|access-date=26 April 2015|date=23 April 2015| archive-date=3 May 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150503142900/http://www.irishexaminer.com/technow/movies/that-irish-accent-in-avengers-age-of-ultron-is-actress-kerry-condon-325713.html| url-status=live}}
After reuniting with Martin McDonagh in the 2017 film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Condon played a major role in McDonagh's 2022 film The Banshees of Inisherin as the long-suffering sister of Colin Farrell's character. Condon's performance in the film earned her immense critical praise, garnering several accolades, including a win for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress–Motion Picture and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
Filmography
=Film=
class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable" | Notes |
1999
| Theresa Carmody | |
2000
| Rat | Marietta | |
2001
| Eileen | |
rowspan="2"| 2003
| |
Intermission
| Café Waitress | |
2005
| Victoria | |
2009
| data-sort-value="Last Station, The" | The Last Station | Masha | |
rowspan="2"| 2011
| Rachel | |
data-sort-value="Shore, The" | The Shore
| Pat |
2013
| Melody | |
2014
| Gold | Alice | |
2015
| rowspan="3"| F.R.I.D.A.Y. | rowspan="3"| Voice role |
2016 |
rowspan="2"| 2017 |
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
| Pamela | |
rowspan="2"| 2018
| Katie Hopgood | |
Avengers: Infinity War
| rowspan="2"| F.R.I.D.A.Y. | rowspan="2"| Voice role |
rowspan="2"| 2019 |
Dreamland
| Olivia Evans | |
2022
| data-sort-value="Banshees of Inisherin, The" | The Banshees of Inisherin | Siobhán Súilleabháin | |
2023
| In the Land of Saints and Sinners | Doireann McCann | |
2024
| Eve Waller | |
rowspan="3"| 2025
| Claire | |
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| Kate | Post-production |
{{pending film|Pressure}}
| Post-production |
=Television=
class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable" | Notes | |||
1999 | Ballykissangel | Mairead Reilly | 2 episodes |
2004 | Born and Bred | Niamh Copper | Episode: "Something Old" |
2005–2007 | Rome | Octavia of the Julii | Main cast |
2008 | Anatomy of Hope | Jenna | TV movie, unsuccessful pilot |
2010 | Five Days | Sister Siobhan Doole | 3 episodes |
2011–2012 | Luck | Rosie Shanahan | Main cast |
2013–2014 | data-sort-value="Walking Dead, The" | The Walking Dead | Clara | 4 episodes |
2014 | Believe | Dr. Zoe Boyle | Recurring role |
2015–2022 | Better Call Saul | Stacey Ehrmantraut | Recurring role |
2016 | Brace for Impact | Sofia Gilchrist | TV movie |
2017 | Gypsy | Melissa Saugraves | Episode: "Black Barn" |
2018 | Women on the Verge | Laura | Main cast |
2019–2020 | Ray Donovan | rowspan="2" | Molly Sullivan | Recurring role (season 7) |
2022 | Ray Donovan: The Movie | Television film | |
2024–present | Star Wars: Skeleton Crew | Fara | 5 episodes |
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Awards and nominations
See also
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