TV and film star Carrie Coon is linking up with Leslie Bibb and Michelle Monaghan to complete the girls' trip trio in season three of The White Lotus. Carrie will be playing Laurie, and by all accounts, it was a role she loved playing.
After branding season three as 'drunk a** chaos', Carrie said: 'It’s fun being blonde because I really am just a mousy, grey-haired lady back home with my children. One of the great pleasures as an actress is whenever I get asked to do anything physical. So often women are just standing in a room glowering at a partner whom she should have left.'
Carrie will be joined by a star-studded cast, which includes Arnas Fedaravičius, Leslie Bibb, Natasha Rothwell, who played Belinda in season one, Waltin Goggins, Aimee Lou Wood and Sam Nivola. We're even going to see Jennifer Coolidge husband, Greg, make a shock return in season three.
Let's find out more about this 'grey-haired lady' when she's not filming The White Lotus,which for this season is set in Thailand...
Who is Carrie Coon?
Ohio native Carrie is an actress, with TV, film, and theatre credentials to her name. She earned her Master of Fine Arts qualification in 2006 after obtaining a BA degree in English and Spanish. Carrie clocked up several thespian roles in the noughties, leading to her Broadway debut in 2012 in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.
Theatre has a special place in Carrie's heart, as she revealed in 2017, 'Oh, I love it. After doing TV and film, the thing you really start to appreciate about being on stage is you get to tell a story in order from beginning to end. On a film set, you never get to do that. You’re always shooting out of order at odd hours of the day. It’s not as satisfying to me as living through a story every night.'
How old is Carrie Coon?
Carrie is 44 and celebrates her birthday on 24 January. Last year, she hilariously responded to an X user who wrote, 'How does Carrie Coon simultaneously look 35 and 55? Tbc she’s fine as hell but she looks old and young at the same time.' Her reply read, 'Thank you. I totally agree and I can answer this one: 43, generally healthy, two little kids and not enough rest, no Botox or filler. Have a marvelous day!'
Which TV shows and films and has Carrie Coon been in?
In 2011, Carrie made her small screen debut in The Playboy Club. Six years later, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role in Fargo, which was followed up by a nod at the ceremony again in 2022 for her efforts in The Gilded Age. Her first foray into film came with Gone Girl in 2014, and she has gone on to star in the Ghostbusters franchise, Lake George, and Avengers.
Is Carrie Coon married?
Carrie married actor and Broadway playwright Tracy Letts, 59, in 2013, a year after they crossed paths on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Booth Theatre.
Opening up about their wedding to Vanity Fair, Tracy revealed they had a drastic last-minute change of plans. He explained, 'My wedding was in a hospital after my emergency gallbladder surgery. We were going to go to the courthouse to get married, and the night before, I suddenly came down with pains. We went to the emergency room, and I had my gallbladder removed the next day.
'So she went and she found the Lutheran chaplain there in the hospital, who had never performed a wedding before, who came to our hospital room and performed the ceremony there. So it was a lovely, intimate, personal ceremony. We had a great time.'
Do Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts have any children?
Yes, Carrie and Tracy are parents to a son Haskell, eight, and a three-year-old daughter whose name they have not divulged.
Discussing how her approach to work shifted after welcoming Haskell, Carrie said, 'I connect to stories differently now that I have a son. It changes the stories that I want to tell and the scripts I’m interested in. Some of them now take me away from motherhood because I want to do something outside of myself, and now motherhood is part of who I am.'
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