List of frequent Coen Brothers collaborators


The Coen brothers, a sibling duo of filmmakers, are known for their frequent collaborations with various actors and film crew members. Though they write and direct as a team, for many of their films they split the credits, with Joel Coen as director and Ethan Coen as producer, and the two credited jointly as writers. Additionally, they both edit their films under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes.
The Coens' most frequent collaborators are listed here.
Joel and Ethan often cast certain actors more than once in their films. The Coens have most frequently worked with Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Jon Polito, John Turturro, George Clooney, Bruce Campbell, Warren Keith and Stephen Root.

ActorBlood Simple Raising Arizona Miller's Crossing Barton Fink The Hudsucker Proxy Fargo The Big Lebowski O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Man Who Wasn't There Intolerable Cruelty The Ladykillers Paris, je t'aime No Country for Old Men Burn After Reading A Serious Man True Grit Inside Llewyn Davis Hail, Caesar! The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Macbeth Total
Frances McDormand9
Steve Buscemi6
John Goodman6
Jon Polito5
John Turturro4
George Clooney4
Bruce Campbell4
Warren Keith4
Stephen Root4
Holly Hunter3
Michael Badalucco3
Richard Jenkins3
J. K. Simmons3
Josh Brolin3
M. Emmet Walsh2
John Mahoney2
Tony Shalhoub2
Charles Durning2
Peter Stormare2
Billy Bob Thornton2
Michael Lerner2
Olek Krupa2
Steve Park2
Jeff Bridges2
Elizabeth Marvel2
Tilda Swinton2
Scarlett Johansson2
Alex Karpovsky2
Fred Melamed2
Tim Blake Nelson2
Clancy Brown2
David Krumholtz2
Brendan Gleeson2
Harry Melling2

Recurring crew members


PersonBlood Simple Raising Arizona Miller's Crossing Barton Fink The Hudsucker Proxy Fargo The Big Lebowski O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Man Who Wasn't There Intolerable Cruelty The Ladykillers No Country for Old Men Burn After Reading A Serious Man True Grit Inside Llewyn Davis Hail, Caesar! The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Macbeth
Skip Lievsay
Peter Kurland
Carter Burwell
Tom Johnston
Bruno Delbonnel
Roger Deakins
Barry Sonnenfeld
Mary Zophres
Betsy Magruder