“I’m looking forward to going back [to Newport] if we have the opportunity to do another season,” Coon, who is from Copley, Ohio, told PopCulture.com. “[The historical homes] are open to the public and that’s just not something I knew about growing up in the Midwest." When she’s not filming the Julian Fellowes-created historical series—and slipping into corsets befitting of 1882—Coon’s life in 2022 includes her roles as a wife and a mother of two. Below, everything to know about The Gilded Age star Carrie Coon, including her family, what else you’ve seen her in and more.
Who plays Bertha Russell on The Gilded Age?
Talk about a role for the ages! The 41-year-old Coon plays Bertha Russell, the social-climbing wife of a robber baron, onThe Gilded Age. She told the AV Club that it’s “so much more fun” to play someone with “a good character flaw,” adding that she identified with some aspects of her ambitious character. “I really related to her single-mindedness,” she explained. “I think we can all be myopic when it comes to things that we care about. And for Bertha, you know, this is the only place she can put her energy, in this social ambition.” As half of the show’s new-money couple, Coon stars opposite Morgan Spector, who plays George Russell. She added toPopCulture.com: “They’re the interlopers and that’s always fun. I mean, don’t we all feel like outsiders, at least when we’re teenagers? It’s a feeling I think everybody can relate to. And it’s also a source of dynamism in the plot.”
What has Carrie Coon been in?
The Gilded Age is far from Coon’s first role, as she’s starred in a long list of television, film and theater projects over the years. She memorably portrayed Margo Dunne in Gone Girl and Gloria Burgle in the FX series Fargo. Most recently, she played Callie in the movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife. She’s also been in The Leftovers, The Post and loads more.
Who is Carrie Coon’s husband, Tracy Letts?
Tracy Letts is an actor and a playwright. The 56-year-old is known for writing the play August: Osage County, which won both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize; it was also made into a movie that earned Oscar noms for both Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. Letts has also had roles the title character’s father in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, in Homeland and even on Seinfeld back in the day; he sat next to Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) at George Costanza’s father’s Festivus celebration!
How did Carrie Coon meet her husband, Tracy Letts?
In this case, it appears the couple who’s in show business together, stays together. Coon and Letts met when they worked together on a stage revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 2011. “[Showmances] don’t usually last, but here we are 10 years later, so you never know,” she told The Guardian in 2021. Rather than an elaborate Hollywood wedding, the pair reportedly held their unconventional 2013 nuptials in a hospital, as Letts required emergency gallbladder surgery the day before their marriage license would have expired. These days, the pair are still collaborating on projects. Coon told Chicago Magazine in 2020 that Letts asks her to weigh in on his scripts, something she is “so moved” by. “It’s really sweet because whenever Tracy finishes something, he always says, ‘Do you think you’ll have enough time to read this today?’ And I say, “Yeah, I’ve got some time,’” Coon explained. “And he says, ‘Well, you think you could read it right now?’ He gets really nervous, and I set up somewhere and he’ll bring me a glass of water.”
Does Carrie Coon have kids?
Coon doesn’t just play a mother of two on The Gilded Age; she and Letts have two kids in real life. The couple welcomed a daughter, whose name they’ve yet to publicly reveal, in summer 2021, and Coon was pregnant while filming Season 1 of The Gilded Age. While corsets aren’t exactly conventional maternity wear, she hid her growing baby bump with careful costuming and “a lot of very fancy capes towards the end,” as she told Entertainment Tonight. Coon said production was supportive of her pregnancy, and that the costume department did “such an amazing job of hiding it that a lot of people working in post-production didn’t know I was pregnant.” She even joked that her daughter thinks her Gilded Age dresser, Brain, is actually her father, as she “heard his voice most of all, down there tugging everything and putting me back together.” Coon and Letts also have a 3-year-old son, Haskell Letts. His name could be a tribute to Letts’ late grandfather, Charles Haskell Letts, according to theChicago Tribune. The actress discussed motherhood in a 2018 interview with Rolling Stone, saying, “I grew up in a family with five kids. I grew up with babies. So babies have never been particularly intimidating to me.”
Where does Carrie Coon live?
Coon reportedly lives in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago. In an interview with Chicago Magazine in 2020, Coon mentioned that Letts “hasn’t lived in our house in Chicago for more than 10 weeks of his whole life” due to his schedule. “But we love Chicago and love an excuse to be there more often,” she added. “The success we’re enjoying right now could change at any moment. It’s nice to know that we have a place to go when Hollywood stops calling.”
How old is Carrie Coon?
Fun fact! Carrie Coon turned 41 years old on the day of The Gilded Age’s Season 1 premiere on HBO: Jan. 24, 2022.
Where is Carrie Coon from?
Coon’s time on the FX series Fargo wasn’t her only experience with the Midwest; she was also born in Copley, Ohio.
Where did Carrie Coon go to school?
Coon went to college at the University of Mount Union in her home state of Ohio, where she played soccer and ran track and field. She also got a full-tuition scholarship to attend grad school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in acting in 2006. Next, Christine Baranski Shares the Acting Advice She Gave Her Daughter, Why She Loves The Gilded Age and More
