Age: 45
female
Carrie Alexandra Coon (born January 24, 1981) is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complex characters on stage and screen, she has received a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. On television, her breakout role was as Nora Durst in the drama series The Leftovers (2014–2017). Subsequently, she received her first nomination for Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her role as Gloria Burgle in the third season of the black comedy crime anthology series Fargo (2017), her second for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing Bertha Russell in the period drama series The Gilded Age (2022–present) and her third for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Laurie Duffy in the third season of the satirical dramedy anthology series The White Lotus (2025). She made her film debut in Gone Girl (2014), with further roles in films such as The Post (2017), Widows (2018), The Nest (2020), Boston Strangler (2023), and His Three Daughters (2024). She has also portrayed characters in blockbuster films such as Proxima Midnight in Avengers: Infinity War(2018) and Callie Spengler in Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and its sequel, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024). On stage, Coon made her Broadway debut as the naive wife Honey in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2012), for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carrie Coon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas—that would be her three grown children—but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. Her children and grandchildren worry it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: she’s pregnant. Once word gets out, everyone wants a piece of her: the press and the paparazzi, activists and medical researchers, all descending on Vista View as Pepper tries to determine her next move. Soon Pepper has some hard decisions to make—and some she’s not allowed to make. Enormous Wings is an urgent novel about female agency and bodily autonomy, morality and mortality. It’s about what happens when you don’t get to choose. It’s about motherhood and family, sex and love and friendship, and how those bedrocks—even so late in the day—can still change, and then change everything.
