Carrie Coon

Born: 24 January 1981

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Years Active: 2006-present

Carrie Alexandra Coon (born January 24, 1981) is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complex women on stage and screen, she has received a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a 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.