Tricia Cooke

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Tricia Cooke
Born (1965-06-25) June 25, 1965 (age 60)
La Mirada, CA, United States
Occupation(s)Film editor, screenwriter, producer
Years active1990–present
Spouse
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(m. 1993)​
Children2

Tricia Cooke (born June 25, 1965) is an American editor, screenwriter and producer. She is best known for being an editor on multiple films by the Coen brothers and for her and Ethan Coen's films Drive-Away Dolls (2024) and Honey Don't! (2025).

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Early life

Cooke stated in a 2025 interview that she is from "Southern California, a suburb of Los Angeles." [1] She graduated in 1989 from New York University with a degree in film. [2]

Career

After graduating, Cooke worked for a few movies in New York before someone recommended her to the production manager of Miller's Crossing (1990) by the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. She originally worked with the film's cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, before becoming an apprentice editor. She continued working with the Coen brothers, including being the assistant editor for their films Barton Fink (1991) and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) and the editor for The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001). [2]

She also co-directed the comedic documentary short film Where the Girls Are (2003) with Jennifer Arnold and co-wrote and co-directed Don’t Mess With Texas (2008) with Carrie Schrader. [2]

Cooke and Ethan Coen started writing the script for the 2024 film Drive-Away Dolls , which is Cooke's debut as a film screenwriter, in 2002. [3] She is also the film's editor and unofficial co-director. Cooke and Coen stated that the only reason only Coen is credited as a director for the film is that Cooke is not a member of the Directors Guild of America. [2] Drive-Away Dolls is the first film in a planned "lesbian B-movie trilogy" and was followed by Honey Don't!, released in 2025. [4]

Personal life

Cooke is married to filmmaker Ethan Coen since 1993. [2] They met on the set of Miller's Crossing in the winter of 1989. [2] The couple share two children, daughter Dusty and son Buster. [5] The family resided in the Murray Hill neighborhood in New York City. [5]

Cooke is queer and a lesbian. She was already a lesbian before she met Coen and describes their marriage as "non-traditional", with both having separate partners outside their marriage. [2]

Filmography

Cooke has worked as an editor or associate editor on many of the Coen brothers' films. [6] Her filmography includes the following:

References

  1. ↑ Drafthouse, Alamo. "Q&A: Ethan Coen & Tricia Cooke (HONEY DON'T!)". Youtube.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Encinias, Joshua (January 18, 2024). "Drive-Away Dolls: How Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's Long Marriage Shaped Their Lesbian Road-Trip Movie". MovieMaker . Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  3. ↑ "Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke give sexploitation cinema a queer spin in 'Drive-Away Dolls'". AP News. 2024-02-20. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  4. ↑ Jones, Tamera (June 23, 2024). "Ethan Coen Says 'Drive-Away Dolls' Has Something A Coen Brothers Movie Never Had". Collider . Retrieved March 7, 2024.
  5. 1 2 Verini, James (2004-03-28). "The United States of Coen". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  6. ↑ "FILM REVIEW; Hail, Ulysses, Escaped Convict (Published 2000)". The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2022-08-26.
  7. ↑ Kit, Borys (2024-02-24). "Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans to Star in Dark Comedy 'Honey Don't!'". The Hollywood Reporter . ISSN   0018-3660. OCLC   44653726 . Retrieved 2024-02-24.
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