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Carrie Coon

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. Provided by Wikipedia