Actress Carrie Coon has captivated fans on The Gilded Age as Bertha Russell, and many other roles on shows like Fargo and The Leftovers. In addition to her TV career, Coon has also been busy on stage. That’s where she met her husband, Tracy Letts, who received a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County as well as a Tony Award for his performance as George in the revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Axelle/Bauer-Griffin//Getty ImagesHere’s the complete relationship timeline between the two entertainment industry greats.Jump to:20122013November 2013September 2017January 2018March 2018March 2021Summer 2021January 2022February 2023August 2024September 2024February 2025September 2025November 2025January 2026February 20262012The couple met in 2012 when the Steppenwolf Theatre Company revived Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Booth Theatre.2013A year later, they got married in a hospital where Letts had just received emergency gallbladder surgery. While being interviewed on Late Night with Seth Meyers in 2017, Coon shared they’d been planning a wedding and got their marriage license in Illinois. This license required them to use it within 60 days of registering, or they’d have to register again at city hall. So they decided to just go for it and were wed at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.View full post on YouTubeCoon laughed and said that Letts “was so high” during the ceremony that “his gown was slightly off-the-shoulder.”In a Vanity Fair interview from 2013, Letts shared more details, saying they were actually heading to the courthouse for their marriage when he felt the pain that sent him to the hospital. There was a Lutheran chaplain at the hospital who officiated “a lovely, intimate, and personal ceremony.”November 2013The pair attended the August: Osage County premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre together.Joe Scarnici//Getty ImagesSeptember 2017Coon and Letts went to the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater.Frazer Harrison//Getty ImagesJanuary 2018In January 2018, Coon confirmed on X, that she and Letts were expecting their first child.View full post on XMarch 2018Their son, Haskell, was born in March of that year. Soon after, she told Rolling Stone, “I grew up in a family with five kids. I grew up with babies. So, babies have never been particularly intimidating to me.”March 2021In a March 2021 New York Times interview, the couple talked about how the pandemic had changed the landscape of theater.“I’ve made nothing,” Letts said of his time in quarantine. “From a creative standpoint, this year for me has been a dust storm.”Coon then shared a bit about how having a child changed how her husband worked from her perspective.“When I got pregnant with our son four years ago, Tracy really went into overdrive,” she said. “It was as though there was some biological imperative to take care of his family that kicked in. He just said yes to everything. We’d been working really hard.”Summer 2021Their second child, a daughter, was born in the summer of 2021.January 2022In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Coon explained how she hid her pregnancy while filming The Gilded Age in the historical gowns.“There were a few months where I got to wear the costumes as they existed. But when we came back, I had to put strings on the back of all of them,” she said. “What’s extraordinary about this story is that no one batted an eye. They all just got on board.”She added that the costume department did “such an amazing job of hiding it that a lot of people working in post-production didn’t know I was pregnant.” She added that she “had a lot of very fancy capes towards the end,” and they “would celebrate a very well-timed carriage going by.”Coon was eight months pregnant when filming ended.“There were a lot of moving buttons,” she said. “It’s really magical.”She then joked that her daughter thought that the on-set dresser, Brian, was her dad.“Because she heard his voice most of all, down there tugging everything and putting me back together,” she said. “I like my daughter. She’s good.”February 2023Coon and Letts sold their mansion in Bucktown for $3.1 million, according to the Chicago Tribune. In a May 2022 interview in The Wall Street Journal, Letts said that he and Coon had left that city and headed to the East Coast, sharing that they “have a great old brownstone a block from Prospect Park that we rented when we commuted from Chicago. Now we’re New Yorkers.”August 2024In 2024, Carrie was nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category for The Gilded Age. That same year, Letts received his first nomination for a guest-starring role on Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. In an interview that August with Variety, Coon said her mom had wanted to know if she and Letts “made history” for being a married couple where both members are nominees.“She wanted to know if having a couple nominated was big news, but of course it wasn’t,” Coon said. “I looked it up. There are three of us nominated.”Rodin Eckenroth//Getty ImagesThe other two couples she was referring to are Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor and Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup.September 2024The pair attended a post-Emmy reception hosted by HBO and Max at San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood on September 15.Rodin Eckenroth//Getty ImagesFebruary 2025They walked the red carpet again in February, this time for the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica.Amy Sussman//Getty ImagesThey were both on stage when His Three Daughters won the Robert Altman Award for Best Ensemble.Michael Buckner//Getty ImagesSeptember 2025The couple walked side-by-side on the red carpet at the 2025 Emmy Awards on September 14. Letts chose a classic black suit and bow tie, while Coon channeled Cinderella in a powder-blue dress and matching satin peep-toe heels.Savion Washington//Getty ImagesThe pair also went to the HBO Max Emmys after-party. Coon swapped her blue gown for a patterned leather shift dress.JC Olivera//Getty ImagesCoon and Letts attended one more event before the end of the month, walking the red carpet for the A House of Dynamite premiere during the 63rd New York Film Festival on September 28.John Nacion//Getty ImagesNovember 2025The couple was stylish during their night out at the 2025 GQ Men of the Year event in Los Angeles.Maya Dehlin Spach//Getty ImagesJanuary 2026Coon and Letts had a big night on Broadway for the January 8 opening of his play Bug. The show originally debuted 20 years ago in London and later had runs in the United States in 2000 and 2004. Letts revived the play—which follows a woman who becomes more paranoid after spending time with a newly acquainted man in her motel room—in 2026, casting Coon as the lead.Michael Loccisano//Getty ImagesBruce Glikas//Getty ImagesFebruary 2026Letts praised his wife’s acting skills in Bug and shared the unique qualities she brings to the role of Agnes White in the play.“Carrie [Coon], as she’s performing in the play, comes out every night, and she finds kids waiting at the stage door who are doing scenes from Bug in acting class, or they’re doing it at their school right now,” he said in an interview with WBEZ Chicago. “That’s just great. The fact that kids are finding something in this play that speaks to them and that they think is worth repeating.”“Carrie brings a real Midwestern pragmatism,” Letts added. “Carrie’s just such a physical actor and a physical person. And the physical transformation that Agnes goes through over the course of the play, there’s a feral quality that’s really needed in order to do justice to the part. A low center of gravity. And Carrie really has that. She’s just fearless.”