Tricia Cooke
American film editor, film producer and screenwriter
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).
Early life
Cooke stated in a 2025 interview that she is from "Southern California, a suburb of Los Angeles." She graduated in 1989 from New York University with a degree in film.
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).
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.
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.
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