The Coen Brothers

Joel Coen	Ethan Coen
Birth name: Joel David Coen   Date of birth: November 29, 1954    Joel has been married to actress Frances     McDormand since 1984. They adopted a son   from Paraguay and they named Pedro   McDormand Coen. They live in New York City.	Birth name: Ethan Jesse Coen Date of birth: September 21, 1957  Ethan is married to film editor Tricia Cooke, and they have two children: daughter Dusty and son Buster. They live in New York City.

©Occupation: American film directors, producers, screenwriters, editors and also cinematographers.

©Jewish heritage grew up in a Jewish community in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.

©Their father, Edward, was an economist at the University of Minnesota.

©Their mother, Rena, an art historian at St. Cloud State University.

©Joel then spent four years in the undergraduate film program at New York University.

©Ethan went on to Princeton University and earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy in 1979.