CO Tipperary actress Kerry Condon is to be honoured at next year's Oscar Wilde Awards in the US, it has been confirmed.
The annual ceremony celebrates the Irish contribution to the entertainment industry, and Ms Condon will follow in the footsteps of Belfast stars Kenneth Branagh and Jamie Dornan, who were honoured at the awards earlier this year.
Ms Condon, who currently stars alongside Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in director Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, is being honoured for her body of work which also includes voicing the role of artificial intelligence Friday in three of Marvel Studio's Avengers films.
She is also set to appear in the upcoming Donegal-shot movie In the Land of Saints and Sinners alongside Liam Neeson and Belfast's Ciarán Hinds.
The awards event, which is hosted by the US-Ireland Alliance, is traditionally held in the week before the Oscars, and the 2023 ceremony will be held in Santa Monica on March 9.
US-Ireland Alliance president Trina Vargo said Ms Condon's performance in Martin McDonagh's comedy was a "tour de force", while the director said he had been a fan of her previous theatre work, which includes being the youngest actress to portray Ophelia in a Royal Shakespeare Company performance of Hamlet.
"I don’t think I’d quite seen how brilliant she was onstage really captured in the movies. I wanted to make sure that we did that, and she just blew me away," Mr McDonagh said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair.
Northern Ireland Screen and Screen Ireland are joint sponsors of the awards, and Ms Vargo praised the successful projects created on the island, including this year's viking thriller The Northman, from director Robert Eggers and filmed on the north coast, and the upcoming Belfast-shot fantasy Dungeons & Dragons.
