Most known for her starring role in the Boo, Bitch.
Dropping her cute chick flick image, she’s stepping into the quirky and supernatural lead of Erika Vu. But to those who don’t know her as anything but Lara Jean, she has quite the repertoire of work, spanning multiple genres. With her career just starting up, her best roles can be looked at as rated on IMDb.
Moonshot (2022) - 5.5
In the future, where space travel is an everyday occurrence and Mars is the new travel hotspot, two college students sneak aboard a spaceship. Sophie (played by Lana Condor) and Walt (played by Cole Sprouse) find themselves stuck together as they travel to their dream destination. But feelings start to soar as they fly off to Mars.
Lana Condor plays the main lead, Sophie. Sticking to her recent rom-com casting, Lana shows she can play a great romance lead full of chemistry, outside of her hit movie, To All The Boys. Here she plays alongside Cole Sprouse in a cute and slow-burn romance. Her performance is excellent and even in a movie full of sci-fi and space, she helps to keep the audience grounded in her relationship.
To All The Boys: PS I Still Love You (2020) - 6.0
To All The Boys: PS I Still Love You is the second installment of the To All The Boys trilogy. Picking up from the last film, Lara Jean and Peter’s relationship stays perfect and wholesome. But when Lara Jean bumps into an old crush, feelings start to get muddled up. Confused about who she wants, Lara Jean is left picking between two enticing options.
Lana Condor reprises her role as Lara Jean, the quirky and wholesome main lead. This time around, Lara Jean is conflicted and Condor does a great job to make us feel for her. Her chemistry is hot and alive with John Ambrose, showing us Condor can mesh with anyone. While she may not make the best decisions in this movie, it makes Condor’s character more relatable to the audience, resulting in fans loving her more.
To All The Boys: Always And Forever (2021) - 6.3
To All The Boys: Always And Forever is the final movie in the trilogy. Senior year has finally come and Lara Jean is hit with the decision of where to go to college. With things going great with Peter, she doesn’t want to ruin anything, but New York is calling her name and maybe it’s time to take her own path, with or without Peter.
This is the final time we see Lana Condor as Lara Jean, a character that Condor seems to have embodied perfectly. Condor does a great job of giving fans those bittersweet moments as she comes to with what she wants to do. Viewers get to see Lana interact more with friends and family, and it’s nice to see her platonic chemistry with co-stars as well as her romantic chemistry with Peter. Just because things are reaching their climax, doesn’t mean the audience is deprived of cute and wholesome Lara Jean and Peter moments.
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) - 6.9
comic book adaptation follows Apocalypse, the deadly supervillain, who wants to wipe out mankind, and the remaining X-Men must band together to defeat him and save the earth.
Lana Condor's first-ever onscreen role was as Jubilee in the X-Men franchise. While her role is small and short, she shows promise for her career. What's more, because of the popularity of the franchise, it was a huge role for a then, small and actress. Some fans were upset that there was so little of her in the movie, wishing to see more of her potential and powers in the franchise.
To All The Boys I Loved Before (2018) - 7.0
To All The Boys I Loved Before was the first film adaptation of Jenny Han’s book with the same title. Lara Jean, a daydreaming hopeless romantic, writes secret love letters every time she gets a crush. She never intended for them to leave her bedroom, but when the letters mysteriously get sent out, she has to figure out a way to fix it.
This was Lana Condor’s biggest role, putting her name in the spotlight. Her cute and adorable looks worked perfectly for Lara Jean, and her quirky and awkward demeanor only helped. Lana Condor did a great job of making the audience fall in love with her and she’s left a memorable impression on the chick flick scene. This film is considered one of the best romantic comedies of the 2010s by fans.
Alita: Battle Angel (2019) - 7.3
one of the better live-action anime adaptations of recent years. The story follows Alita, a battle cyborg who one day discovers that she actually possesses the soul of a human teenage girl. Upon learning about her true identity, she sets on a journey to find out about her past and what happened to her.
This is Lana Condor’s first-ever voice acting job. While this was early on in her film career, she made no hesitation to approach voice acting too. Here she plays the role of Koyomi, another teenage girl. In this intense action and sci-fi movie, Lana Condor presented herself with high energy to be recognized within the voice acting world.
Deadly Class (2018-2019) - 7.5
Deadly Class is an adaptation based on a graphic novel with the same title. It’s an imaginative coming-of-age story taking place in the 1980s. The story begins with Marcus, a homeless, broken teenager who gets recruited into the King Dominion, an academy for the deadly arts. Learning to fit in and fight for his life every day, he learns with his class how to kill and survive.
Lana Condor plays one of the main characters Saya Kuroki. This is her most out-of-the-box role, showing a different side to her acting abilities. Condor presents fans with a hard-to-crack, deadly assassin, performs electrifying fight choreography that is hard to look away from, and has a cool and collected personality. This new side to Lana Condor is thrilling and impressive, and it’s hard to her rom-com image when she wields a knife to the throat.
Rilakkuma And Kaoru (2019) - 8.2
Rilakkuma And Kaoru is a slice-of-life, Japanese animated series. It follows two bears called Rilakkuma and Kaoru when Rilakkuma becomes an unexpected roommate to Kaoru. Rilakkuma may just laze about and not help around the house, but it’s hard to hate such a cute bear.
Lana Condor plays Kaoru in the English dubbed version of the show. This is her biggest voice acting role so far, and with the show's cute and calming nature, Lana delivers a great performance. It’s a show not only for children but one for adults to relate to. Lana’s voice for Kaoru is soothing and wholesome, adding to the warm and tender mood of the show.
