Tony Nominee Carrie Coon Tapped for Lead Role in FARGO Season 3

Tony nominee Carrie Coon will soon join Ewan McGregor in the third season of FX's hit anthology series FARGO, according to TVLine.

Coon will take on the female lead role of "Gloria Burgle, a practical woman who grabs the fire extinguisher when the bacon catches fire and everyone else panics. Gloria is the chief of the Eden Valley police, and a newly divorced mother, who is struggling to understand this new world around her where people connect more intimately with their phones than the people right in front of them."

FARGO season three is currently slated to premiere in 2017.

Coon's Chicago credits include The March, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Three Sisters (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The Girl in the Yellow Dress (Next Theatre Company); The Real Thing (Writers' Theatre); Magnolia (Goodman Theatre); and Bronte (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Broadway); and Mary Page Marlowe (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Regional theater credits include Reasons to Be Pretty, Blackbird (Renaissance Theaterworks); The Diary of Anne Frank, Anna Christie, Our Town (Madison Repertory Theatre); and four seasons with the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Television and film credits include "The Playboy Club," "The Leftovers" and various commercials and One in a Million. A native of Copley, Ohio, she received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.