Carrie Coon had a house full of family the morning she heard she had been nominated for an Emmy for her work on the HBO series “The Gilded Age.”
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After a 16-hour day on the set of the costume drama's third season, Coon's mother, father, brother, sister-in-law and several children flew in from Ohio for an overnight visit. Including her own children, the only family member not home on Emmy nomination morning was her husband, fellow actor Tracy Letts, who received his surprise first nomination for a guest role on HBO's "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty."
On that rather busy morning, it was her agent, Jacob Fenton, who called to congratulate Coon on her approval for her role as Bertha Russell, the ambitious social climber and wife of a railroad baron who conquers 1880s New York City. Then a flood of texts came in about Letts, and she realized that double congratulations were in order.
Letts, meanwhile, had gone into town for an early photo shoot and watched his wife's nomination being announced in the makeup trailer before putting his phone down. It wasn't until he had video of Coon and their son tearfully texting their congratulations that "I found out I was nominated," Letts tells Variety.
