Kerry Condon
| Kerry Condon | |
|---|---|
| Born |
4 January 1983 Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1999–present |
Kerry Condon (born 4 January 1983) is an Irish television and film actress. Best known for her role as Octavia of the Julii in the HBO/BBC series Rome, she also appeared in HBO's short-run series Luck. She is also the youngest actress ever to play Ophelia in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet.
Kerry Condon was born in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. Condon had wanted to perform from an early age and in primary school used to host staged talk shows with her friends as guests. She left home at 16 to embark upon her acting career.
In 2001, at the age of 19, Condon originated the role of Mairead in the 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. For this 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 and a Drama Desk Award.
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. She then appeared as Masha, a Tolstoian, in The Last Station, a film about the last months of Tolstoy's life with Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer before playing jockey Rosie Shanahan in 2012's Luck. She voices the artificial intelligence F.R.I.D.A.Y., Tony Stark's replacement for J.A.R.V.I.S. in the Marvel Studios films Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War.
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