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Ohio’s Carrie Coon coming to Cleveland’s Capitol Theatre; Midwesterners exploding on fall television and film

Carrie Coon, Copley, Ohio, native and 'Gone Girl' co-star One thing I love about working on Midwest Movie Maker is that I’m always delighted when I discover new actors, actresses and filmmakers from the Midwest making it big on the silver screen. Take for example Carrie Coon . Coon co-stars in the upcoming David Fincher flick  Gone Girl . She plays Ben Affleck’s sister in the film. She also stars in the HBO show The Leftovers , as Nora Durst, and was nominated for a Tony Award in the Best Featured Actress category for her role in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? And get this. Coon is from Copley, Ohio . Copley!  That’s where I’m from . Of course now I’m searching every nook and cranny of my memory to determine if I’ve ever met Coon. She’s a bit younger, so it’s not likely. Though she may have rented videos from the video store where I worked. So, you know, six degrees of K-Mart Video and all of that. Anyway, Coon is coming to the Capitol Theatre in C