Carrie Coon
Carrie Alexandra Coon
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Carrie Alexandra Coon (born January 24, 1981) is an American actress. She has received a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and two Tony Award. On television, her breakout role was as widow Nora Durst in the drama series The Leftovers (2014–2017), for which she won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. She would later receive Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her role as a police chief in the third season of the black comedy crime anthology series Fargo (2017), Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing the matriarch of a wealthy family in the period drama series The Gilded Age (2022–present), and her third for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as a divorced lawyer in the third season of the satirical dramedy anthology series The White Lotus (2025). She made her film debut in Gone Girl (2014), with further roles in films such as The Post (2017), Widows (2018), The Nest (2020), Boston Strangler (2023), and His Three Daughters (2024). She has also portrayed characters in blockbuster films such as Proxima Midnight in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and its sequel Avengers: Endgame (2019), and the daughter of Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and its sequel Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024). On stage, Coon made her Broadway debut as a naive newlywed in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2012), for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
Career
- 1981Born
- 2013Won Theatre World Award
- 2018Won Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play
Trivia
- •Place of birth: Copley Township
- •Citizenship: United States
- •Known as: stage actor, film actor, television actor, actor
- •Spouse: Tracy Letts
What happened recently
Carrie Coon on Fighting for Leading Roles and Why ‘The Leftovers’ Is Having a Moment
'Harmonia': Guy Nattiv-Directed '80s Cult Drama Starring Carrie Coon, Lily James, Odessa Young, Tracy Letts & Bella Ramsey Coming January 8
Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk Doc Headlines Bleecker Street’s Biggest Awards Slate Ever, Alongside New Films Starring Helen Mirren and Carrie Coon (EXCLUSIVE)
‘Harmonia’: Guy Nattiv-Directed ’80s Cult Drama Starring Carrie Coon, Lily James, Odessa Young, Tracy Letts & Bella Ramsey Coming January 8
Carrie Coon Admits She Used To ‘Haunt Reddit’ Amid ‘The White Lotus’ Success
Carrie Coon, Chase Infiniti, Claire Danes, Kerry Washington, Rhea Seehorn and Sarah Pidgeon at the THR Drama Actress Roundtable
Carrie Coon hasn't seen the 'material results' of 'White Lotus' success: 'I still have to fight'
Carrie Coon's 2026 Tonys Red Carpet Dress Makes Her Feel Like the "Coolest Version of Myself"
Tony Nominee Carrie Coon Credits The White Lotus for Helping Bring Bug to Broadway
‘At first she scared me’: Carrie Coon dishes on her role in Tracy Letts’ ‘Bug,’ from the ‘terrifying’ to the ‘triumphant ending’
Carrie Coon Explains Mysterious ‘Bug’ Cancellations: Physical Reaction To Fake Blood In Broadway Show
Carrie Coon on the Subversiveness of Bug, Working With Husband Tracy Letts and The Gilded Age Season 4
Carrie Coon on ‘Bug,’ Memes, Reading the Reviews, and Longing to Be an Action Hero
Carrie Coon Debuts Her New Haircut at the Emmys With a Gown That Took 341 Hours to Make
'The Gilded Age's Carrie Coon Sees One Way Forward for Bertha in Season 4, and It Would Be the Show's Boldest Move Ever
Carrie Coon Unveils a Bold Pixie Cut Hair Transformation During 'White Lotus' Reunion
'The Gilded Age’s Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector Have Hope for Season 4 After That Brutal Finale Scene: “We Don’t Want to Leave George and Bertha Like This”
‘The Gilded Age’ Stars Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector Hash Out George and Bertha’s Marriage Problems: “I Don’t Think It’s Irreconcilable”
‘The Gilded Age’ Stars Carrie Coon and Taissa Farmiga Break Down the “Magical Moment” Bertha and Gladys Defeat Hattie Morahan’s Lady Sarah
Carrie Coon Talks Emmy Nomination, Future Of ‘The Gilded Age’ & Whether She’d Return For ‘The White Lotus’ Season 4
‘The Gilded Age’ Stars Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector “Loved” Welcoming Merritt Wever as Bertha’s Sister Monica O’Brien: “She Fit In Seamlessly”
Carrie Coon Was Able to Showcase a Hidden Talent in “The White Lotus ”and Went Viral Because of It
If You Wanted More Carrie Coon In The White Lotus Season 3, Don't Miss Her Other HBO Show With 86% On Rotten Tomatoes
Carrie Coon and Lily James Join Bella Ramsey and Odessa Young in Guy Nattiv’s Thriller ‘Harmonia’ as Bleecker Street Boards for U.S.
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