- Carrie Coon made her professional theatrical debut in a performance of “Our Town” early in her career.
- She subsequently moved to Chicago, where she made her stage debut in 2008 with a production of “Bront” at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company.
- She was cast as Honey in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 2012, after years of waiting. Her performance was well-received, and she even won a Theatre World Award for it.
- In 2011, she made her television debut in an episode of “The Playboy Club,” a short-lived NBC series.
- In 2014, she received her biggest break when she was cast as Nora Durst in the HBO drama series “The Leftovers,” as one of the major protagonists. She was on the show for three years, till 2017.
- In 2014, she made her cinematic debut in “Gone Girl,” playing Margo “Go” Dunne.
- In 2015, she played the lead in Playwrights Horizons’ Off-Broadway production of Placebo.
- In 2016, she starred in the drama film “Strange Weather.”
- In the third season of the FX anthology series “Fargo,” she got the lead role of Gloria Burgle.
- In the historical drama film “The Post,” she portrayed real-life journalist Meg Greenfield.
- She co-starred in Steve McQueen’s heist thriller “Widows” in 2018.
- In the epic action picture “Avengers: Infinity War,” she also performed the voice and motion capture for Proxima Midnight (child of Thanos) (2018).
- She was cast as Bertha Russell in HBO’s drama series “The Gilded Age” on April 30, 2020. In the same year, she starred as Allison O’Hara in the thriller “The Nest.”
- In the upcoming horror film “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” she will play Callie.
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