Carrie Alexandra Coon (born January 24, 1981) is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complex characters on stage and screen, she has received a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.
On television, she received her first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her role as Gloria Burgle in the third season of the FX anthology series Fargo (2017), and her second for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing an aspiring socialite in the HBO period drama series The Gilded Age (2022–present). She has also starred as grieving mother Nora Durst in the HBO drama series The Leftovers (2014–2017), mysterious cult member Vera Walker in the anthology drama series The Sinner (2018), and a corporate lawyer on a girls' trip in the third season of The White Lotus (2025).
She made her film debut in Gone Girl (2014) and has since taken 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 Proxima Midnight in the superhero film Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and starred in the comedy films Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024). On stage, Coon made her Broadway debut as the naive wife Honey 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.
