Carrie Coon’s homes reflect the trajectory of her rising star power. The actor, who plays the character Laurie in the new season of The White Lotus, got her start as a stage actor in Wisconsin before making her big break in Chicago in 2010 when she was cast in a production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Steppenwolf Theatre. When the production went to Broadway, Coon earned herself a Tony nomination. The play also introduced the Gilded Age actor to her future husband, August: Osage County playwright and actor Tracy Letts. As the entertainment power couple began to appear in increasingly more TV and film projects, they found themselves spending less time at their home in the Windy City. “We have been on the road for the last several years; our [two-year-old] has been to more countries than the average American,” Coon said in 2020. “And he hasn’t lived in our house in Chicago more than 10 weeks of his whole life.”
That transient lifestyle is contrary to the way that the actor grew up. A proud Midwesterner at heart, Coon often discusses her upbringing in a farmhouse in Copley, Ohio. “The area was rural, and our house had been in my father’s family since the 1800s. It still is,” the His Three Daughters star said last September. “We had a big barn out back along with a smokehouse, a milk house, and an old summer kitchen we converted into a garage…[my siblings and I] grew up outside.” In addition to her busy career, the desire to raise her own children in the countryside has shaped Coon’s real estate moves, which we’ve traced below.
Modernist Chicago manse
After marrying Letts in 2013, the Leftovers actor moved into his 6,900-square-foot contemporary-style house, which he bought in 2009 for $3 million. Located in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood, the modernist-style masonry block and stucco structure was built in 2003 and hosted five bedrooms and six bathrooms. Two fireplaces, each with colorful ceramic tile surrounds, added warmth to the living spaces on the main floor, while playful midcentury-modern-style metal screens separated the living and dining rooms.
A media room in the basement was lined with dusky blue curtains and equipped with a projection setup worthy of true movie connoisseurs. During the pandemic lockdown, the pair used the cozy space every night to watch classic films, Coon told Variety in 2020. “I married a film buff, I guess. And he really does give business to all of those little imprints that are cropping up and making obscure DVDs,” the Gone Girl actor said of Letts’s movie collection—which surpasses 10,000 titles—in an interview with AwardsWatch last June. “We have the most obscure DVDs. It’s an extraordinary collection for the apocalypse. As I say, we will have an apocalyptic movie theater when everything falls apart.” According to listing details, the room was lined with custom shelving, which we can only assume held Letts’s extensive media collection.
The couple first tried to privately sell the home in March 2022 for just under $4 million, but it wasn’t until after publicly listing the residence and dropping its price significantly when they finally sold the property for $3.1 million in February 2023.
New York City living
By 2017, Coon and Letts were spending about a third of their time in Chicago, a third in New York, and a third wherever else their work took them. During that time, their New York base was an apartment in a TriBeCa high-rise, per a 2018 interview with Chicago Magazine. The couple’s firstborn child, Haskell, was four months old at the time, and Coon expressed a desire to raise him in the country, the same way that she grew up. “That was a big part of my life,” she told the outlet. “I can’t imagine kicking him out of this doorman building here in TriBeCa and saying, ‘Go play.’ It just seems ludicrous. And I see kids who grow up in New York, and they just seem so old. I was protected from that.” It’s unclear if the Fargo actor still has this residence.
Following the sale of their Chicago property, the Nest star and her husband resided in a Brooklyn brownstone, which they reportedly still maintained as of a year ago. “Today, my wife, actress Carrie Coon, and I live with our two children in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn,” Letts told the Wall Street Journal in 2022. “We have a great old brownstone a block from Prospect Park that we rented when we commuted from Chicago. Now we’re New Yorkers.”
A country house upstate
In November 2021, Coon realized her dream of raising their kids in the countryside when she and Letts bought a $2.7 million stone and shingle Colonial-style home in Bedford, New York. “We loved that the two-story house built in 2003 was weirder than others we saw. It has a hobbit portico and moons in the shutters,” Coon told the Wall Street Journal last September. “There’s also a beautiful breakfast nook. We love our pancakes.” The charming 7,000-square-foot abode rests on a densely wooded three-acre lot that also hosts gardens, numerous decks and patios (one of which has a built-in barbecue grill), and a swimming pool with an attached spa. The wooded location was certainly a draw for Coon, who told the WSJ that she loves “being surrounded by trees.” The actor continued, “I also love it for my children, who like to run around and explore. My body relaxes when I’m here.”
Some of the amenities found inside the four-bedroom, seven-bathroom home include a fireplace-warmed living room, two offices, a formal dining room, a wood-paneled butler’s pantry, a country-style kitchen with beamed ceilings, a gym, a primary suite equipped with generously sized walk-in closets, and of course, Coon’s beloved breakfast nook, which is actually a full-size room lined with windows facing the forest. Hardwood floors, crown molding, and wainscoting are found throughout. “It’s a weird country escape,” Coon told the Los Angeles Times. “My kids are growing up naked outside all summer.”
