All About Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts' 2 Children

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  • Emmy nominee Carrie Coon joined her husband, playwright Tracy Letts, successful 2013
  • Five years later, nan mates welcomed their son, Haskell
  • Coon and Letts besides stock a daughter, who was calved successful 2021

Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts are nan proud parents of 2 children.

The White Lotus prima first crossed paths pinch nan Pulitzer-winning playwright while moving connected Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? successful 2010. Three years later, Coon and Letts joined and started their family successful 2018 pinch nan commencement of their son, Haskell Letts. Their daughter, whose sanction has not yet been revealed, was calved successful 2021, according to Entertainment Tonight.

Coon opened up astir nan challenges of balancing motherhood pinch her career, telling Marie Claire successful March 2025 that she discovered a caller consciousness of autonomy while filming The White Lotus connected location successful Thailand.

"There's a different psychological request connected women erstwhile their children are young," she said, noting that trying to raise kids while pursuing a thriving profession often comes pinch "an opportunity cost."

While shooting nan Mike White-led show, nan character discovered a caller consciousness of autonomy.

"I could read, exercise, meditate, moreover aquatics successful nan ocean," she explained. "Being capable to take really I walk my clip is thing I don’t cognize different mother who has. My profession lets maine measurement distant from parenting and past travel backmost to it pinch caller appreciation — and that’s a gift astir women don’t get."

Here’s everything to cognize astir Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts' 2 children.

She had a difficult commencement acquisition pinch Haskell 

Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts be nan HBO & Max Post Emmys Reception connected September 15, 2024 successful West Hollywood, California.

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Coon and Letts welcomed their son, Haskell, successful 2018. The character confirmed his presence successful an April 2018 question and reply pinch Rolling Stone, successful which she revealed that he was successful nan breech position and was delivered via cesarean section.

Coon said she was “doing beautiful well, considering,” and admitted that nan early days astatine location felt for illustration a much-needed pause. “I’m conscionable hanging astir nan location pinch my boobs out,” she joked. “I haven’t been location successful years, truthful we’re gonna eat immoderate chickenhearted paprikash and conscionable beryllium around.”

For Coon, nan downtime was particularly invited aft years of nonstop work. She and Letts moreover joked that Haskell was their “Spielberg Baby,” since she became pregnant while they were some moving connected nan famed director's 2017 movie The Post.

Her large family prepared her for motherhood

Tracy Letts and Carrie Coon be nan 75th Annual Tony Awards astatine Radio City Music Hall connected June 12, 2022 successful New York City.

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Coon grew up successful a ample family successful Copley, Ohio, arsenic nan mediate kid of five, arsenic she told USA Today successful 2024. Growing up pinch a batch of siblings, she was regularly astir children from a young age, an acquisition she later said helped hole her for motherhood.

Coon joked to Rolling Stone in 2018 astir nan relationship betwixt her puerility and parenting. “I grew up successful a family pinch 5 kids. I grew up pinch babies. So babies person ne'er been peculiarly intimidating to me,” she said.

The elaborate costumes connected The Gilded Age helped hide her gestation

Carrie Coon successful 'The Gilded Age'.

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The actress, who plays nan cunning and eager Bertha Russell connected HBO’s decadent play play The Gilded Age, admitted to ET that “no 1 batted an eye” erstwhile she turned up pregnant for play 1.

The show, known for its Emmy Award winning costumes, was speedy to thief conceal Coon’s gestation without stooping to TV gimmicks.

“There were a fewer months wherever I sewage to deterioration nan costumes arsenic they existed. But erstwhile we came back, I had to put strings connected nan backmost of each of them,” she said. “What’s bonzer astir this communicative is that nary 1 batted an eye. They each conscionable sewage connected board.”

The character admitted that toward nan extremity of filming, they did request to coordinate “a well-timed carriage,” present and there, but expressed that nan costume section did specified an astonishing occupation that galore successful post-production didn’t moreover cognize she was pregnant while filming.

Coon besides joked that pinch truthful overmuch clip adapting nan elaborate costumes, her daughter, calved successful nan summertime of 2021, thought that her mom's on-set dresser, Brian, was her father.

“Because she heard his sound astir of all, down location tugging everything and putting maine backmost together,” she said.

Coon, who has been outspoken astir nan value of prioritizing parental support astatine work, called her acquisition pinch nan show’s costume section “magical.”

They are raising early cinephiles

Tracy Letts and Carrie Coon be nan world premiere of "Little Women" astatine nan Museum of Modern Art connected December 07, 2019 successful New York City.

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Letts and Coon are raising their children pinch a emotion of cinema, arsenic nan character told USA Today. She said that nan family picks 1 movie from their postulation of complete 10,000 Blu-ray DVDs to watch each night.

Following successful nan footsteps of their character parents, nan children person developed an eclectic taste, pinch Haskell enjoying everything from Inside Out 2 to Charlie Chaplin and Japanese “Gamera” movies. Coon admitted that their girl has besides taken up a unusual favourite film.

“The different day, we asked my 3-year-old what she wanted. She said, ‘I want to watch ‘The Fly,’ ” nan 1958 sci-fi scary movie wherever Vincent Price grotesquely transforms into a elephantine bug.

“We said, you don’t want to watch that! You’re conscionable trying to impressment your brother! But she’s obsessed pinch it – they’re full nerds," Coon said.

He is inspired by his parents, arsenic good arsenic his roles

Tracy Letts and Laurie Metcalf successful 'Lady Bird'.

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Letts has often drawn inspiration from his parents, some successful his activity and successful his domiciled arsenic a father. On nan Talk Easy podcast pinch big Sam Fragoso successful November 2019, he reflected connected nan qualities he inherited from them — for illustration his father’s “honest presence” to his mother’s “genuine curiosity successful different people.”

While Letts admitted he besides picked up immoderate of their affectional reserve, he said that matrimony and fatherhood had helped him consciousness much open. “I consciousness much engaged successful my mundane life than I ever have," Letts added.

The character has besides brought that position to nan screen, playing memorable begetter figures — astir notably Larry successful Greta Gerwig’s 2017 movie Lady Bird.

Still, he was speedy to push backmost connected nan thought that Larry was nan “perfect dad.” As he told Awards Daily successful November 2017: “People talk astir Larry arsenic if he’s nan cleanable dad, but he abdicates and leaves nan room erstwhile nan conflict starts. If I could opportunity thing to him, I’d say, ‘You gotta rotation up your sleeves and get successful location a small bit.’ ”

She’s an advocator for parental authorities

Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts be nan 2019 IFP Gotham Awards connected December 02, 2019 successful New York City.

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An ardent protagonist of parental rights, Coon praised her acquisition connected nan group of Another Happy Day, a drama astir postpartum slump written and directed by Nora Fiffer. In her September 2024 USA Today interview, she described Fiffer arsenic “committed to doing an eight-hour workday pinch entree to kid care," and added that this set-up "is a activity we should each get down successful each industry.”

Coon besides expressed gratitude for nan support of her husband, saying her matrimony had been integral to her profession success.

“When I sewage pregnant pinch our son, Tracy really went into overdrive,” she told Harper’s Bazaar successful July 2021. “It was arsenic though location was immoderate biologic imperative to return attraction of his family that kicked in. He conscionable said, 'yes,' to everything.”

The character is besides speedy to admit her privilege arsenic a mother pinch agency successful her master life.

Coon told USA Today, “I'm fortunate I'm successful a supportive matrimony – my hubby is not acrophobic of female ambition and I really for illustration being home. Now nan things that return maine distant from my family person to beryllium really special. I'm very privileged to beryllium successful a position wherever I get to make choices astir that.”

Being a mom empowers her to speak retired

Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts be nan Newport Beach Film Festival connected November 03, 2019 successful Newport Beach, California.

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During a June 2025 quality connected The View, Coon expressed her outrage complete President Donald Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill,” which passed nan House of Representatives connected May 22, 2025. Among different argumentation changes, nan measure brought backmost 2017 taxation cuts, accrued backing for deportation efforts and reduced who is eligible for Medicaid and nan Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

When big Joy Behar praised her outspokenness, noting that it group her isolated from different actors, Coon replied, “Well, I’m a mom first.”

Her domiciled arsenic a genitor has besides prompted her to advocator for ambiance alteration awareness. She told Big Issue successful September 2024 that she worries astir her children’s future.

“My large rumor correct now is climate. I person 2 young children and nan satellite I grew up connected doesn’t beryllium anymore," she said. "I’m very fearful for what nan early holds for them and what their lives will beryllium like. We would do good to beryllium paying attraction to nan measurement we dainty our astir susceptible group – because it’s precisely nan measurement we’ve been treating nan earth."