Carrie Alexandra Coon is an American theater, film and television actress. Nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in the TV series Fargo and an MTV Award for her role in the movie Avengers: Infinity War.
She began her creative biography on the stage. Played in several Broadway productions. She was nominated for a Tony Award and won the Theater World Award for her role in the famous play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Kun began acting in films in 2011. Today, the actress has more than thirty roles in television and film projects.
Facts from the biography
Carrie was born in the winter of 1981 in the United States in an ordinary family. Carrie barely talks about childhood. It is known that she has three more brothers and an older sister.
After graduating from high school, Kun entered the University of Mount Union at the language department, graduating with a bachelor's degree. Then she continued her studies at the University of Wisconsin and received a master's degree in art.
Creative career
After graduation, Kuhn was accepted into the troupe of one of the theaters in Wisconsin, where she performed on stage for several years.
After moving to Chicago, Carrie worked at the Chicago Theater. She played one of her famous roles in 2010 in the play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
A few years later, Kun again played in this performance, but already on the Broadway stage. For this role, she was nominated for the Tony Theater Award.
In 2011, Kun began acting in television, and then in film projects.
The actress got her first role in the crime drama series Playboy Club, which tells about the clubs that existed in Chicago in the 1960s.
In 2013, Kun starred in the detective project Ironside. The plot of the series takes place in New York, at the police station, where detective Robert Ironside serves. His team unravels the most complex and high-profile cases. To find the criminals, Ironside is ready for anything, even for breaking the law.
In 2014, Kun begins acting in the famous TV series Fargo as Gloria Bergl. The film was highly appreciated by film critics and received many awards and nominations, in particular: Emmy, Golden Globe, Saturn, Georges, and the Guild of Actors. In 2017, Kun was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Actress.
In the same year, Carrie starred in the thriller D. Fincher's "Disappeared" with Ben Affleck in the title role. The film won the Saturn Prize and the nominee for the prize: Oscar, Golden Globe, Guild of Actors, Georges, British Academy, MTV. Coon became the nominee for the Empire Prize, Critics Association of the Phoenix, San Diego, and St. Louis.
In the series "Left", Carrie played the role of Nora Darst and was nominated for the award: "Satellite", Critics' Choice Television Award and the Association of Television Critics.
In 2017, Kun starred in the crime series The Sinner. The plot of the film takes place in an American town where a woman named Cora Tannetti in broad daylight kills a completely unfamiliar man. The woman could not explain the reason why she committed the murder. Detective Harry Ambrose is taken to investigate the crime, who has to find a motive and bring to light all the secrets of Cora.
The series was nominated for prizes: Saturn, Emmy, Golden Globe, Actors Guilds.
In 2018, Kun got a role in the famous Marvel film Avengers: Infinity War, where she played Proxima Midnight.
