Cool Coen Characters

The Coen brothers are renowned for creating some of the most true to life and powerful characters on the silver screen, and here (in no particular order) is our pick of the very large bunch…

Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed) – A Serious Man
Very much the Serious Man of the film, Sy is a Machiavellian villain; an obnoxious, pompous manipulator who no-one can resist. Fred Melamed captures the maddening quality of a man who on the surface is everything he should be - kind, generous and loving…it’s just unfortunate that it’s with another mans’ wife.

Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) – O brother, Where Art Thou?