Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1153
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kerry Condon works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Kerry Condon appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kerry. Avengers: Endgame is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for war, history, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Anthony Maras, Joseph Kosinski, Bryce McGuire and others, Kerry Condon helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Avengers: Endgame (2019) as Friday (voice) · Avengers: Infinity War (2018) as Friday (voice) · Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) as Pamela
Career snapshot
Ranked #1153 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
Avengers: Endgame
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Avengers: Endgame
Most frequent director
Martin McDonagh
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Martin McDonagh
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.0
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Avengers: Endgame, Dreamland, Avengers: Infinity War — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Last Station, Unleashed, Ned Kelly.
Most productive era
2010s
9 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.23 films | 6.75 films | 7.44 films |
| Action | 6.52 films | 8.04 films | 7.22 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.32 films | 6.92 films |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | 5.81 film | 7.51 film |
| Crime | 6.62 films | 6.93 films | 6.72 films |
| Romance | 6.41 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | 6.71 film | 5.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003Ned Kelly
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kate Kelly.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Pressure
The current state of the argument, as Kay Summersby.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
20 of 20 films
as Friday (voice)
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Friday (voice)
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Kate McKenna
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
as Siobhán Súilleabháin
Directed by Martin McDonagh
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Friday (voice)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Friday (voice) gives Kerry Condon a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Friday (voice)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Performance score8.2
Avengers: Infinity War asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Friday (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kate McKenna
F1 (2025)
Performance score7.9
F1 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kate McKenna is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Siobhán Súilleabháin
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Performance score7.8
The Banshees of Inisherin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Siobhán Súilleabháin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Friday (voice)
Start here. Avengers: Endgame is the clearest statement of what Kerry Condon does — accessible, 181 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kerry at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Avengers: Endgame — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Avengers: Infinity War — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
F1 (2025)
Keeps the drama register of The Banshees of Inisherin but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Anthony Russo
Director
2 films together
Notably Avengers: Endgame
Martin McDonagh
Director
2 films together
Notably Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
John Crowley
Director
1 film together
Notably Intermission
Gregor Jordan
Director
1 film together
Notably Ned Kelly
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Unleashed
Michael Hoffman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Station
Paolo Sorrentino
Director
1 film together
Notably This Must Be the Place
Richard Shepard
Director
1 film together
Notably Dom Hemingway
Joss Whedon
Director
1 film together
Notably Avengers: Age of Ultron
Jon Watts
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Homecoming
Dean Devlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Samaritan
David Hollander
Director
1 film together
Notably Ray Donovan: The Movie
Robert Lorenz
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Bryce McGuire
Director
1 film together
Notably Night Swim
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably F1
Anthony Maras
Director
1 film together
Notably Pressure
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Anthony Russo
Director
2 films together · 8.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Avengers: EndgameMartin McDonagh
Director
2 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriJoseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
F1Jon Watts
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: HomecomingJoss Whedon
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Avengers: Age of UltronAnthony Maras
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PressurePaolo Sorrentino
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Must Be the PlaceLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnleashedDavid Hollander
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ray Donovan: The MovieDean Devlin
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad SamaritanRobert Lorenz
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the Land of Saints and SinnersMichael Hoffman
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last StationJohn Crowley
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IntermissionGregor Jordan
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ned KellyRichard Shepard
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dom HemingwayBryce McGuire
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night SwimSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Avengers: Infinity War
as Friday (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Last Station
as Masha
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Avengers: Infinity War
as Friday (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Avengers: Age of Ultron
as Friday (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Avengers: Endgame
as Friday (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Kerry Condon has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
23 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
12 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Avengers: Endgame
as Friday (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Avengers: Infinity War
as Friday (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Last Station
as Masha
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Night Swim
as Eve Waller
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Avengers: Endgame
as Friday (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Avengers: Endgame
as Friday (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Intermission
as Café Waitress
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Friday (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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