Carrie Coon | |
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 Coon in 2013 | |
| Born | Carrie Alexandra Coon January 24, 1981 Copley, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | University of Mount Union (BA) University of Wisconsin–Madison (MFA) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
Carrie Alexandra Coon (born January 24, 1981) is an American actress. On television, she has starred in the HBO drama series The Leftovers (2014–2017) and played Gloria Burgle in the third season of the FX anthology series Fargo (2017). She won a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress for The Leftovers and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for Fargo. She also starred in the second season of the anthology drama series The Sinner (2018), and has played an aspiring socialite in the HBO period drama series The Gilded Age since 2022. For the latter, she received another Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress.
On stage, Coon was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in the 2012 revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In film, she has acted in the thriller Gone Girl (2014), the crime film Widows (2018), the political drama The Post (2017), and the dramas The Nest (2020) and His Three Daughters (2024). She has also appeared as Proxima Midnight in the superhero film Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and starred in the supernatural comedy films Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024).