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Carrie Coon (born January 24, 1981, in Copley, Ohio, USA) is an American actress who portrayed Callie Spengler in Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024). Callie is the estranged daughter of Egon Spengler and the mother of Phoebe and Trevor, making her the central adult figure of the Spengler family in the Afterlife continuity. Coon is also widely recognized for her long-running role in The Leftovers (HBO, 2014-2017).
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Coon plays Callie Spengler across both films in the Afterlife continuity. Callie is a single mother who, at the start of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, inherits her late father Egon's remote Oklahoma farmhouse, setting the story in motion. Her complicated feelings about her absent father form the emotional core of the film. In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family has relocated to New York City and Callie continues to anchor the family unit alongside Gary Grooberson.
| Film | Role |
|---|---|
| Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) | Callie Spengler |
| Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) | Callie Spengler |
During the casting process for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Coon performed the film's argument scene with Mckenna Grace during their chemistry read, which helped establish the mother-daughter dynamic central to the story.
For scenes establishing Callie's personal history, production used photographs from Coon's own childhood and college years, grounding the character's backstory in real imagery.
The farmhouse flirtation scenes between Callie and Gary Grooberson (Paul Rudd) included improvised moments, with both Coon and Rudd developing their characters' chemistry on the fly.
| Project | Type | Role | Year(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Gilded Age | TV Series | Actress | 2021 (9 episodes) |
| The Sinner | TV Series | Actress | 2018 (8 episodes) |
| Fargo | TV Series | Actress | 2017 (10 episodes) |
| The Leftovers | TV Series | Nora Durst | 2014-2017 (28 episodes) |
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | TV Series | Actress | 2013 (1 episode) |
