Carrie Coon

Carrie Alexandra Coon (born January 24, 1981) is an American actress. She is known for her leading performances in numerous prestige television dramas as well as her performances on film and stage. She has received a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe and two Tony Awards. On television, her breakthrough role was as a widow in the drama series The Leftovers (2014–2017), for which she won the Critics' Choice Award. She would gain further recognition playing a police chief in the third season of the black comedy crime anthology series Fargo (2017), a matriarch of a wealthy family in the period drama series The Gilded Age (2022–present), and a divorced lawyer in the third season of the satirical dramedy anthology series The White Lotus (2025), all of which earned her Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She made her film debut in Gone Girl (2014), with subsequent roles in films such as The Post (2017), Widows (2018), The Nest (2020), Boston Strangler (2023), and His Three Daughters (2024). She has acted in blockbuster films, such as Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and its sequel Avengers: Endgame (2019), and 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. She returned to Broadway playing a divorced waitress in the revival of the Tracy Letts play Bug (2026) for which she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.