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 as Nora Durst in the HBO drama series The Leftovers (2014–2017) and as 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 aspiring socialite Bertha Russell in the HBO series The Gilded Age since 2022. For The Gilded Age, 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? She has also appeared in numerous films, including the thrillers Gone Girl (2014) and Widows (2018), the dramas The Post (2017) and The Nest (2020), the superhero film Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the supernatural comedy Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and its sequel, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024).