Carrie Coon
Height
5'5" (165 cm)
Age
44
Nation
American
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Some Lesser Known Facts About Carrie Coon
- She is of German, English, French, and Slovak-Hungarian descent.
- She grew up on her ancestral five-acre, non-working farm in Copley, Ohio where her family has been living since the 1800s.
- Her great-grandfather served as the constable of Copley.
- She was raised as a catholic and would often ask her parents about the end of the world
- Her father ran their family’s auto parts store and has worked as an art museum janitor. Her mother worked as an ER (Emergency Room) nurse at the Cleveland Clinic.
- In July 1983, her family adopted her sister Morena from El Salvador, which was going through a civil war at the time.
Carrie coon with her sister Morena
- Carrie earned the nickname, ‘Messy Bossy’ because of her occasional inelegance.
- After watching her first play ‘Babes in Toyland’ when she was 10 years old, she decided to join a community theatre. Later, when she asked permission from her mother to audition for the theatre, her mother denied it due to her work schedule.
- While waiting for the soccer practice to start during her senior year of high school, she auditioned for the play ‘Our Town’ and was selected to play the lead role of Emily Webb.
- She played soccer and ran track while studying at the University of Mount Union, Ohio.
- Initially, she wanted to study linguistics but later she changed her major 8 times before finally settling for English and Spanish literature with a minor in psychology at the University.
- As part of the study abroad program at the University, she studied in San Sebastian, Spain, for a semester.
- She visited El Salvador for a social responsibility class with her Professor, Dr. Kramer to work with the Salvadoran Association for Rural Health, an NGO.
- She credits her professor, Dr. Hendel of the Department of Theatre at the University to help her prepare for the University/Resident Theatre Auditions (U/RTAs) in Chicago.
- While pursuing her post-graduation from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she worked as a Teacher’s Assistant and earned $9,000 annually.
- While studying at the University, she started therapy for her skin-picking behaviour, a habit that she had developed when she was two years old. After finding help from the therapist, she wrote a paper on skin picking for her graduate acting thesis.
- After completing her post-graduation, she worked as an apprentice at the American Players Theatre, Wisconsin for four years.
- She has worked in various theatrical plays including ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (2006), ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (2008), ‘Henry V’ (2009), ‘Three Sisters’ (2012), ‘Mary Jane’ (2017) and ‘Bug’ (2020).
Carrie Coon in a still from the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- She has appeared in various films and TV shows including ‘Ironside’ (2013), ‘Strange Weather’ (2016), ‘Fargo’ (2017), ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ (2018), ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ (2021), and ‘The White Lotus’ (2025).
Carrie Coon in a still from The White Lotus
- She considers her performance in the play, ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ as a career-defining moment in her life as it helped her gain roles in films and TV shows. She also received a Tony Award nomination in 2013 for the play.
Carrie Coon in a still from the play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- She used Sonali Deraniyagala’s memoir, ‘The Wave’ as inspiration to prepare for her role as Nora Durst in the post-apocalyptic TV show, ‘The Leftovers’ (2014-2017).
Carrie Coon in a still from The Leftovers
- She married her husband in the Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago soon after the emergency gall bladder surgery of Tracy Letts. The marriage was officiated by a Lutheran chaplain.
- During the TV show, ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ in 2017, Carrie revealed that they married in the hospital because their marriage license required them to marry within 60 days of registration, otherwise, they would have to get registered again.
Carrie Coon in a still from Late Night with Seth Meyers
- She further revealed that for her marriage, she wore a red t-shirt and leggings while Tracy Letts wore his surgery gown.
- She has provided motion-capture for various games including ‘Return to Castle Wolfenstein.’
- She supports various non-profit organisations and philanthropic causes such as ProLiteracy, ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), and #cut50.
- In 2018, she went through pregnancy complications after she was diagnosed with CMV (Cytomegalovirus), a common virus, five months into her pregnancy.
- In an interview in 2019, she revealed that was password phished on the internet while going through a breakup.
- She is a partial owner of the ‘Edgewater Castle Team,’ a soccer team in Chicago.
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