Background
Kerry Condon was born in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. Condon"s family owned fields, there was grass in the fields and she grew up with horses as pets and friends.
Kerry Condon was born in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. Condon"s family owned fields, there was grass in the fields and she grew up with horses as pets and friends.
Best known for her role as Octavia of the Julii in the Home Box Office/British Broadcasting Corporation series Rome, she also appeared in Home Box Office"s short-run series Luck. She is also the youngest actress ever to play Ophelia in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet. 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 New York
Foreign 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 Royal Society of Chemistry . 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 film Avengers: Age of Ultron.
In 2005 Condon co-starred as Octavia of the Julii, sister of the Roman Emperor Augustus, in the widely acclaimed Home Box Office/British Broadcasting Corporation series Rome. Condon appeared in the Season Four premiere of the hit post-apocalyptic zombie drama The Walking Dead playing the role of the character Clara, which aired 13 October 2013. Condon has two dogs she adopted from the streets of Los Los Angeles