Kerry Condon has built a remarkable career as a film, television, and stage actor of great range, spanning Shakespeare to the rollicking dark comedy of
Martin McDonagh, for whom Condon has originated several roles in cinema and
theater.
After appearing in brief, small roles in Alan Parker’s adaptation of Frank McCourt’s memoir,
Angela’s Ashes (1999), as well as the Kafka adaptation of
Rat (2000) and Goran Paskaljevic’s
How Harry Became a Tree (2001), Condon was cast in a more significant role in the Gregor Jordan-directed
Ned Kelly (2003), starring Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts, and Geoffrey Rush.
Condon landed a supporting role in producer-writer Luc Besson’s $50-million Glasgow-set thriller,
Unleashed (2005), with Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, and Bob Hoskins. Condon joined the ensemble of writer-director Michael Hoffman’s German-Russian-British co-production about Tolstoy’s tumultuous final months,
The Last Station (2009), starring Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff, and James McAvoy, and which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival.
Kerry Condon played a major supporting role under Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s direction in his English-language rock n’ roll drama,
This Must Be the Place (2011), with Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Harry Dean Stanton, and David Byrne, and premiering in competition at the Cannes film festival. Condon was picked by British director-writer Richard Shepard for his black crime comedy,
Dom Hemingway (2013), joining
Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, Demián Bichir, and Emilia Clarke, but earning a poor $1.3 million for Lionsgate.
After Condon appeared in the little-seen Irish comedy-drama,
Gold (2014), she voiced the recurring character of F.R.I.D.A.Y. in a string of some of the most successful Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, starting with
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and continuing with
Captain America: Civil War (2016),
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017),
Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and then
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Kerry Condon had collaborated on stage with playwright Martin McDonagh since 2001’s
The Lieutenant of Inishmore, but continued their work together on the big screen with McDonagh’s Oscar-winning dark comedy,
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), co-starring Oscar winners Frances McDormand and
Sam Rockwell, alongside
Woody Harrelson, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, and Abbie Cornish, and which grossed a knockout $163 million (ten times costs) after a Venice film festival competition premiere, where McDonagh won best screenplay.
After appearing in the tepidly received thriller,
Bad Samaritan (2018), with David Tennant, Condon joined
Margot Robbie, Finn Cole, and Garrett Hedlund in the drama, Dreamland (2019). Kerry Condon triumphantly reunited with McDonagh in arguably her greatest screen performance to date in the dark Irish tragicomedy,
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), starring
Colin Farrell,
Brendan Gleeson, and Barry Keoghan, and grossing $52.4 million after a Venice Film Festival premiere and nine Oscar nominations.
Condon then appeared in the Irish streaming (Netflix) movie starring
Liam Neeson,
In the Land of Saints and Sinners (2023), followed by Condon’s first co-starring Hollywood role in writer-director Bryce McGuire’s horror movie,
Night Swim (2024), with
Wyatt Russell, Nancy Lenehan, and Jodi Long, and released by Universal Pictures. Condon joined the powerhouse cast of
Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem,
Damson Idris, Tobias Menzies, and Lewis Hamilton for the
Untitled Formula One Racing Movie (date to be announced), set in the world of Formula One racecar competitions, and made via Apple Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
