Carrie Brownstein

Brownstein was born in Seattle, Washington, and was raised in Redmond, Washington.{{cite magazine |first=Naomi |last=Zeichner |url= http://www.thefader.com/2011/01/19/interview-carrie-brownstein-on-portlandia/ |title= Interview: Carrie Brownstein on Portlandia |website=The Fader |publisher=The Fader Media Group |location= New York City |date= January 19, 2011 |access-date= April 2, 2012}}{{Cite web |date=2012-03-06 |title='Portlandia' Star Carrie Brownstein Recalls Redmond Childhood |url=https://patch.com/washington/redmond/portlandia-star-carrie-brownstein-recalls-redmond-childhood |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=Redmond, WA Patch |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2015-11-02 |title=‘Portlandia’ star and Sleater-Kinney rocker Carrie Brownstein comes home to a changed Seattle |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/carrie-brownstein-comes-home-to-a-changed-seattle/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US}} Her mother was a housewife and a teacher, and her father was a corporate lawyer. They divorced when Carrie was 14, and she was raised by her father.{{cite web |first= Paul |last= de Barros |url= http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2017567613_pacificpcarrie04.html |title= Carrie Brownstein: the Northwest's funny girl |newspaper= Seattle Times |publisher= The Seattle Times Company |location= Seattle, Washington |date= March 3, 2012 |access-date= April 2, 2012 |archive-date= March 5, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120305205812/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2017567613_pacificpcarrie04.html |url-status= dead }} Brownstein has a younger sister, Stacey. Her family is Jewish.{{cite web| url=http://jwa.org/blog/meet-carrie-brownstein-triple-threat |title=Meet Carrie Brownstein: A Triple Threat |website= JWA.org | publisher= Jewish Women's Archive |date=March 28, 2013 |access-date=November 17, 2013}}

She attended Lake Washington High School before transferring to The Overlake School for her senior year.{{cite news|first=Paul |last=de Barros|title=Cover story—Full Frontal Fun: Watching Carrie Brownstein in 'Portlandia,' we have to laugh at ourselves|url= http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2017567613_pacificpcarrie04.html|newspaper=Seattle Times|publisher=Seattle Times Company|location=Seattle, Washington|date=March 4, 2012 |page= 9}}{{cite news|first=Marc |last=Matsui |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20021217/eastspotlight17/eastside-spotlight-overlake-school | title= Eastside spotlight: Overlake School |newspaper=Seattle Times|publisher=Seattle Times Publishing Company|location=Seattle, Washington|date=December 17, 2002 |access-date=February 29, 2012}}

Brownstein began playing guitar at 15 and received lessons from Jeremy Enigk. She later said: "He lived in the neighborhood next to mine, so I would just walk my guitar over to his house. He showed me a couple of open chords and I just took it from there. I'd gone through so many phases as a kid with my interests that my parents put their foot down with guitar. So [the instrument] ended up being the [first] thing that I had to save up my own money for {{ndash}} and maybe that was the whole reason that I actually stuck with it."{{cite news |first=Hannah |last= Levin|title= Rock of the Decade |url= http://sleater-kinney.net/index.php?go=library_rock_decade | newspaper=The Stranger |publisher=Index Newspapers, LLC|location=Seattle, Washington|via= Sleater-Kinney.Net | date=May 2005| archive-date= September 28, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070928200213/http://sleater-kinney.net/index.php?go=library_rock_decade |access-date= January 12, 2011}}

After high school, Brownstein attended Western Washington University before transferring to The Evergreen State College. In 1997, Brownstein graduated from Evergreen with an emphasis on sociolinguistics{{cite web|first= Julianne|last= Shepherd|url= https://pitchfork.com/features/articles/6413-get-up/|title= Get Up|magazine= Pitchfork|publisher= Condé Nast|location= New York City|date= August 28, 2006|access-date= May 21, 2012|archive-date= March 4, 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200839/http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/6413-get-up/|url-status= dead}} and stayed in Olympia, Washington, for three years before moving to Portland, Oregon.{{cite news|first=Nicole|last= Brodeur|url=http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/carrie-brownstein-comes-home-to-a-changed-seattle/|title=Carrie Brownstein comes home to a changed Seattle | newspaper=The Seattle Times|publisher=The Seattle Times Company|location=Seattle, Washington|date= November 2, 2015|access-date=November 6, 2018}}

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While attending Evergreen, Brownstein met fellow students Corin Tucker, Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail, and Becca Albee. With Albee and CJ Phillips, she formed the band Excuse 17, one of the pioneering bands of the riot grrrl movement in the Olympia music scene that played an important role in third-wave feminism.{{cite web|first=Katie|last=Rife|url=https://www.avclub.com/riot-grrrl-grew-up-on-sleater-kinney-s-dig-me-out-1798260158|title=Riot grrrl grew up on Sleater-Kinney's Dig Me Out|website=The A.V. Club|publisher=Onion, Inc.|location=Chicago, Illinois|date=April 4, 2017|access-date=November 6, 2018}} Excuse 17 often toured with Tucker's band Heavens to Betsy. The two bands contributed to the Free to Fight compilation. With Tucker, she formed the band Sleater-Kinney as a side project and later released the split single Free to Fight with Cypher in the Snow.

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After both Excuse 17 and Heavens to Betsy split up, Sleater-Kinney became Brownstein and Tucker's main focus. They recorded their first self-titled album in early 1994 during a trip to Australia, where the pair were celebrating Tucker's graduation from Evergreen{{cite news| url= http://sleater-kinney.net/index.php?go=library_spin_june05| title= Eat 'em And Smile| work= Spin| first= Caryn| last= Ganz| date= June 2005| via= Sleater-Kinney.net| access-date= August 13, 2007| archive-date= September 28, 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070928200242/http://sleater-kinney.net/index.php?go=library_spin_june05| url-status= dead}}{{Cite news|url=http://nooga.com/209202/record-bin-sleater-kinney-used-punk-rock-break-social-stereotypes-dig/|title=Record Bin: How Sleater-Kinney used punk rock to break social stereotypes on "Dig Me Out"|date=2017-09-23|work=Nooga.com|access-date=2017-09-23|language=en-US|archive-date=September 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923171422/http://nooga.com/209202/record-bin-sleater-kinney-used-punk-rock-break-social-stereotypes-dig/|url-status=dead}} (Brownstein still had three years of college left). It was released the following spring. They recorded and toured with different drummers, until Janet Weiss joined the band in 1996. Following their eponymous debut, they released six more studio albums before going on indefinite hiatus in 2006. In a 2012 interview with DIY magazine, Brownstein said that Sleater-Kinney still planned to play in the future.{{cite web|url=http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/news/carrie-brownstein-sleater-kinney-will-just-start-playing-music-again/ |title=Carrie Brownstein: Sleater-Kinney 'Will Just Start Playing Music Again' |work=DIY |publisher=Thisisfakediy.co.uk |access-date=September 14, 2012}} On October 20, 2014, Brownstein announced on Twitter that Sleater-Kinney would be releasing a new album, No Cities to Love, on January 20, 2015, and would tour in early 2015. At the same time the announcement was made, they released the video for the first single from the album. The single, "Bury Our Friends", was also made available as a free MP3 download.{{cite magazine|first= Kory|last= Grow|url= https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sleater-kinney-reform-share-powerful-new-song-bury-our-friends-20141020|title= Sleater-Kinney Reform, Share Powerful New Song, 'Bury Our Friends'|magazine= Rolling Stone|publisher= Wenner Media LLC|location= New York City|date= October 20, 2014|access-date= May 18, 2017|archive-date= October 22, 2014|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141022083330/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sleater-kinney-reform-share-powerful-new-song-bury-our-friends-20141020|url-status= dead}}

Critics Greil Marcus and Robert Christgau deemed the band one of the essential rock groups of the early 2000s.{{cite web|first1=Barbara|last1=O'Dair|title=A conversation with Robert Christgau|url=http://www.salon.com/2001/05/09/xgau/|website=Salon.com|publisher=Salon Media Group|location=San Francisco, California|date=May 9, 2001|access-date=18 July 2015}}{{cite news|first1=Sasha|last1=Frere-Jones|title=Sister Saviors: Sleater-Kinney returns|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/sister-saviors|magazine=The New Yorker|publisher=Condé Nast|location=New York City|date=January 19, 2015|access-date=July 18, 2015}} In 2015, Stereogum Chief Editor Tom Breihan called them the greatest rock band of the past two decades.{{cite news|first1=Tom|last1=Breihan|title=Premature Evaluation: Sleater-Kinney No Cities To Love|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1728291/premature-evaluation-sleater-kinney-no-cities-to-love/franchises/premature-evaluation/|website=Stereogum|publisher=Eldridge Industries|location=Los Angeles, California|date=January 11, 2015|access-date=July 18, 2015}}

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Brownstein and former Helium guitarist/singer Mary Timony, recording as The Spells, released The Age of Backwards E.P. in 1999.

Also in 1999, Brownstein, Lois Maffeo, and Peter Momtchiloff released a single ("The Touch"/"Louie Louie Got Married") on K Records as The Tentacles.{{cite AV media|url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Tentacles-The-Touch/release/791968|title=The Tentacles – The Touch|publisher=Discogs.com|access-date=September 7, 2020}}

In summer 2009, Brownstein and Weiss worked together on songs (produced by Tucker Martine) for the soundtrack of the documentary film !Women Art Revolution by Lynn Hershman Leeson.{{cite magazine| url= https://pitchfork.com/news/38280-carrie-brownstein-talks-sleater-kinney-acting-writing-and-more/ |title= Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More| magazine=Pitchfork|publisher=Condé Nast|location=New York City| date= March 25, 2010 | first= Carrie| last= Brownstein| interviewer= Tom Breihan| access-date= May 18, 2017}}

In September 2010, Brownstein revealed her latest project was the band Wild Flag, with Janet Weiss, Mary Timony, and Rebecca Cole, formerly of The Minders; according to Brownstein, about a year earlier, "I started to need music again, and so I called on my friends and we joined as a band. Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe, a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts."{{cite web| title= Carrie Brownstein: 'I Have A New Band' | url= https://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2010/09/22/130053010/sleater-kinney-helium-and-the-minders-form-wild-flag | date= September 22, 2010 | work=All Songs Considered blog | publisher= National Public Radio| access-date=October 26, 2010}} They released a self-titled album in September 2011.{{cite web | url= http://www.mergerecords.com/blog/2011/09/stream-wild-flag%e2%80%99s-debut-album-on-npr%e2%80%99s-first-listen | title= Wild Flag's Debut Album in Stores | date= September 14, 2011 | work= Merge Records.com | access-date= September 19, 2011 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110919130145/http://www.mergerecords.com/blog/2011/09/stream-wild-flag%e2%80%99s-debut-album-on-npr%e2%80%99s-first-listen/ | archive-date= September 19, 2011 | url-status= dead | df= mdy-all }}

{{quote box|align=right|width=25%|quote=Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliché to write that, but it's true. From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk and indie rock, to getting to play my own songs and have people listen, music is what got me through. Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.|source= —Brownstein in October 2010}}

In 2011, Wild Flag toured for a second time{{cite news |first=Elizabeth |last=Weil|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/carrie-brownstein.html | title=Carrie Brownstein, Riot Grrrnup | newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York City| date=December 29, 2011 | access-date=January 1, 2012 }} and played at CMJ Music Marathon.{{cite news | first=Jon|last=Caramanica |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/wild-flag-is-what-passes-for-an-inspirational-supergroup-at-cmj/?ref=magazine | title=Wild Flag Is What Passes for an Inspirational Supergroup at CMJ | newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York City| date=October 19, 2011 | access-date=January 1, 2012 }} By 2014, the band was no longer active.{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2013/12/wild-flag-breakup-janet-weiss/|title=Indie Rock Supergroup Wild Flag Are No More|website=Spin.com|date=December 5, 2013 |access-date=October 13, 2014}}{{cite magazine|last=Vozick-Levinson|first=Simon|title=Carrie Brownstein's Life After Punk|date=March 14, 2014|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/carrie-brownsteins-life-after-punk-20140320|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140321112216/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/carrie-brownsteins-life-after-punk-20140320|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 21, 2014|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=March 21, 2014}}

In 2006, Brownstein was the only woman to earn a spot in the Rolling Stone readers' list of the 25 "Most Underrated Guitarists of All-Time".{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/staff-blog/the-twenty-five-most-underrated-guitarists-20071001 | title=The Twenty-Five Most Underrated Guitarists | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=October 1, 2006 | access-date=December 28, 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302131602/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/staff-blog/the-twenty-five-most-underrated-guitarists-20071001| archive-date= March 2, 2011}}

Brownstein began a career as a writer before Sleater-Kinney broke up. She interviewed Eddie Vedder, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Karen O, and Cheryl Hines for The Believer magazine.[http://www.believermag.com/contributors/?read=brownstein,+carrie Contributors: Carrie Brownstein] from The Believer magazine website. Brownstein has also written a couple of music-related video game reviews for Slate.{{cite magazine|first=Carrie|last=Brownstein|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2007/11/rock_band_vs_real_band.html|title=Rock Band vs. Real Band|magazine=Slate|publisher=The Slate Group|location=New York City|date=November 27, 2007|access-date=November 6, 2018}}{{cite web|first=Carrie|last=Brownstein|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/gaming/2008/11/wii_will_rock_you.html|title=Wii Will Rock You!|website=Slate|publisher=The Slate Group|location=New York City|date=November 19, 2008|access-date=November 6, 2018}}

From November 2007 to May 2010, Brownstein wrote a blog for NPR Music called "Monitor Mix";[https://www.npr.org/blogs/monitormix/2007/11/welcome_to_monitor_mix.html Welcome to Monitor Mix] from the NPR Music website she returned for a final blog post in October, thanking her blog readers and declaring the blog "officially conclude[d]."{{cite web| title= A Final Word From Carrie Brownstein| url= https://www.npr.org/blogs/monitormix/2010/10/06/130375983/a-final-word| date= October 6, 2010 | work= Monitor Mix (blog) | publisher= National Public Radio| access-date=October 26, 2010}}

In March 2009, Brownstein was contracted to write a book to "describe the dramatically changing dynamic between music fan and performer, from the birth of the iPod and the death of the record store to the emergence of the 'you be the star' culture of American Idol and the ensuing dilution of rock mystique";{{cite web| author= Matthew Thornton| title= Book Deals: Week of 3/16/09 | date= March 16, 2009 |work= Book News| publisher= Publishers Weekly | url=http://reg.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/deals/article/14952-book-deals-week-of-3-16-09-.html | access-date= October 26, 2010}} The book, called The Sound of Where You Are,{{cite web| title= The Sound of Where You Are | work= Monitor Mix (blog) | url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/monitormix/2007/12/portlands_local_alternative_st.html | date= December 17, 2007| publisher= National Public Radio| access-date=October 26, 2010}} was planned to be published by Ecco/HarperCollins. In an April 2012 interview on Marc Maron's WTF podcast, Brownstein said she was no longer working on the book.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_267_-_carrie_brownstein|title=Episode 267 - Carrie Brownstein|website=WTF with Marc Maron Podcast|date=April 2012 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-01}}

Brownstein's memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, was released on October 27, 2015.{{cite web|last1=Kreps|first1=Daniel|title=Carrie Brownstein Pens Memoir 'Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/carrie-brownstein-pens-memoir-hunger-makes-me-a-modern-girl-20150314|website=RollingStone|date=March 14, 2015|access-date=23 October 2015|archive-date=July 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728073129/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/carrie-brownstein-pens-memoir-hunger-makes-me-a-modern-girl-20150314|url-status=dead}} The book was published by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Books USA.{{cite web|title=Riverhead Overview|url=http://www.penguin.com/meet/publishers/riverhead/?ref=2B4575AB81AF|website=Penguin.com|access-date=23 October 2015|archive-date=October 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016231134/http://www.penguin.com/meet/publishers/riverhead/?ref=2B4575AB81AF|url-status=dead}}

In 2020, Ann Wilson, lead singer of hard rock band Heart, announced in an interview that Brownstein was writing the script for a Heart biographical film.{{cite web |title=ANN WILSON REVEALS HEART BIO-PIC IS IN THE WORKS |url=http://weareclassicrockers.com/article/ann-wilson-reveals-heart-bio-pic-works |website=We Are Classic Rockers |access-date=28 November 2020}}

{{see also|Portlandia|The Nowhere Inn}}

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Brownstein has acted (what she calls a "mere hobby"){{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/34098-carrie-brownstein-talks-spells-book-sleater-kinney/|title=Carrie Brownstein Talks Spells, Book, Sleater-Kinney|date=November 2008|work=Pitchfork Media}} in the short film Fan Mail, the experimental feature Group, and the Miranda July film Getting Stronger Every Day. Brownstein and Fred Armisen published several video skits as part of a comedy duo called "ThunderAnt."{{cite web |url=http://www.thunderant.com/ |title=Thunderant |publisher=Thunderant |access-date=February 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115104416/http://thunderant.com/ |archive-date=November 15, 2019 |url-status=dead }} She also starred opposite James Mercer of The Shins in the 2010 independent film Some Days Are Better Than Others.{{cite web|url=http://www.ifc.com/shows/portlandia/blog/2012/04/exclusive-clip-watch-carrie-brownstein-in|title=EXCLUSIVE CLIP: WATCH CARRIE BROWNSTEIN IN "SOME DAYS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS"|publisher=IFC.com|first=Melissa|last=Locker|date=April 26, 2012|access-date=December 29, 2015|archive-date=October 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029201538/http://www.ifc.com/shows/portlandia/blog/2012/04/exclusive-clip-watch-carrie-brownstein-in|url-status=dead}} The film had its world premiere at SXSW on March 13, 2010.{{cite web |url= https://www.indiewire.com/article/sxsw_10_mccormicks_sad_valentine_some_days_are_better_than_others |title=SXSW '10 {{!}} McCormick's Sad Valentine "Some Days are Better Than Others|publisher=Indiewire.com|author=Indiewire|date=March 11, 2010|access-date=December 29, 2015}}

After their ThunderAnt videos, Brownstein and Armisen developed Portlandia, a sketch comedy show shot on location in Portland, for the Independent Film Channel.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1780441/episodes?season=1 Portlandia (TV Series 2011– ) - Episodes - IMDb] The two starred in the series and wrote for it with co-creator Jonathan Krisel, a writer for Saturday Night Live.{{cite web | url= http://www.ifc.com/blogs/ifc-now/2010/08/snl-fans-prepare-for-portlandi.php | title= SNL Fans Prepare for 'Portlandia' | date= August 6, 2010 | publisher= IFC Channel | access-date= October 26, 2010 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100816225629/http://www.ifc.com/blogs/ifc-now/2010/08/snl-fans-prepare-for-portlandi.php | archive-date= August 16, 2010 | df= mdy-all }} The show, which featured appearances of some of the characters from ThunderAnt, premiered in January 2011.{{cite web| url= http://www.ifc.com/blogs/ifc-now/2010/10/thunderant.php| title= Before There Was 'Portlandia', There Was 'Thunderant'| date= October 7, 2010| publisher= IFC Channel| access-date= October 26, 2010| url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101013024254/http://www.ifc.com/blogs/ifc-now/2010/10/thunderant.php| archive-date= October 13, 2010| df= mdy-all}} The series received positive feedback{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/portlandia/|title=Portlandia|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=December 29, 2015}} and concluded after its eighth season in 2018.{{Cite web |last=Wagmeister |first=Elizabeth |date=2017-01-15 |title='Portlandia' to End With Season 8 in 2018 |url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/portlandia-cancelled-season-8-ifc-fred-armisen-carrie-brownstein-1201960759/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

From 2014 to 2019, Brownstein played the role of Syd in the Amazon Studios original series Transparent.{{cite web|url=http://www.afterellen.com/tv/227913-carrie-brownstein-interview|title=Carrie Brownstein gives us the scoop on her character Syd in "Transparent"|publisher=AfterEllen.com|first=Trish|last=Bendix|date=September 26, 2014|access-date=December 29, 2015}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/arts/television/transparent-season-2-episode-2-episode-3-review.html?_r=0|title='Transparent' Season 2, Episodes 2 and 3: Pool Parties and Provosts|newspaper=NYTimes.com|first=Rachel|last=Syme|date=December 14, 2015|access-date=December 29, 2015}}

In 2015, Brownstein portrayed Genevieve Cantrell in the Todd Haynes film Carol, based on Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt.{{cite news|last=Ford|first=Rebecca|title='Portlandia's' Carrie Brownstein Joins Cate Blanchett in 'Carol'|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/portlandias-carrie-brownstein-joins-cate-694798|access-date=21 May 2015|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=April 9, 2014}} However, the majority of her scenes were cut due to the film's length.

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Brownstein has also appeared as a guest on Saturday Night Live,{{Cite news|url=https://www.ifc.com/shows/portlandia/blog/2016/05/fred-armisen-carrie-brownstein-southern-rock-snl|title=Watch Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in SNL's Southern Rock Supergroup|work=IFC|access-date=2018-07-10|language=en-US|archive-date=October 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029224633/https://www.ifc.com/shows/portlandia/blog/2016/05/fred-armisen-carrie-brownstein-southern-rock-snl|url-status=dead}} Curb Your Enthusiasm,{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/carrie-brownstein-and-larry-david-fight-about-constipation-in-new-curb-your-enthusiasm-trailer-watch/|title=Carrie Brownstein and Larry David Fight About Constipation in New "Curb Your Enthusiasm" Trailer: Watch {{!}} Pitchfork|website=pitchfork.com|date=September 11, 2017|language=en|access-date=2018-07-10}} and Man Seeking Woman,{{Cite news|url=https://www.avclub.com/man-seeking-woman-branzino-1798182959|title=Man Seeking Woman: "Branzino"|last=Kulzick|first=Kate|work=TV Club|access-date=2018-07-10|language=en-US}} among other shows.

Brownstein starred in and wrote the screenplay for The Nowhere Inn, a 2020 tour mockumentary thriller, with Annie Clark (St. Vincent).

Brownstein was outed as bisexual to her family and the world by Spin when she was 21 years old. The article discussed the fact that she had dated bandmate Corin Tucker in the beginning of Sleater-Kinney (the song "One More Hour" is about their break-up).[http://www.undertheradarmag.com/sleaterkinneylastreview.html Sleater-Kinney Last Show] from Under the Radar {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061112173853/http://www.undertheradarmag.com/sleaterkinneylastreview.html |date=November 12, 2006 }}

In 2006, The New York Times described Brownstein as "openly gay."{{cite news |first=Jon |last=Parales |author-link=Jon Pareles |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/04/arts/music/04slea.html |title= Sleater-Kinney May, or May Not, Be Bidding New York Farewell |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 4, 2006 |access-date= November 6, 2018}} In a November 2010 interview for Willamette Week, she stated that she identifies as bisexual. She says, "It's weird, because no one's actually ever asked me. People just always assume, like, you're this or that. It's like, 'OK. I'm bisexual. Just ask.'"{{cite news|first=Aaron|last=Mesh|author-link=Aaron Mesh |url= http://wweek.com/editorial/3652/14707/ |title=Mock Star |newspaper=Willamette Week|date=November 3, 2010|access-date=November 3, 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210153820/http://wweek.com/editorial/3652/14707 |archive-date=December 10, 2010}} Since, she has stated that she prefers/interchangeably uses the terms “queer”{{cite Interview |author-link=Riverhead Books |url= https://www.tumblr.com/riverheadbooks/132090970838?source=share |title=Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl Q&A |date=October 28, 2015}} or “dyke”{{cite interview|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JtQ1ORn3fI |title=Jane Lynch and the Iconic Cast of 'Dykes To Watch Out for' in Conversation |date=June 1, 2023}} to bisexual. In a 2020 article, the Los Angeles Times noted that Brownstein and Annie Clark (who performs as St. Vincent) "dated years ago."Los Angeles Times article: "[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-02-03/annie-clark-st-vincent-carrie-brownstein-nowhere-inn-sundance-2020 Annie Clark, St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein all meet at 'The Nowhere Inn']."

Since working together on ThunderAnt, Brownstein and Fred Armisen developed what Brownstein has called "one of the most intimate, functional, romantic, but nonsexual relationships [they have] ever had."{{cite magazine| first = Rachel| last = Rosenblit| url = http://www.elle.com/print-this/portlandias-comedy-chemistry-2?page=all| title = Portlandia's Comedy Chemistry| magazine = Elle| date = January 9, 2012| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130122100438/http://www.elle.com/print-this/portlandias-comedy-chemistry-2?page=all| archive-date = January 22, 2013| access-date = April 6, 2018| df = mdy-all}} According to Armisen, their relationship is "all of the things that I've ever wanted, you know, aside from like the physical stuff, but the intimacy that I have with her is like no other."[http://www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething/2012/sep/10/transcript/ Fred Armisen: Transcript] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127055948/http://www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething/2012/sep/10/transcript/ |date=November 27, 2012 }} from WNYC's Here's the Thing. {{Retrieved|access-date=September 14, 2012}}

In 2022, Brownstein’s mother and stepfather were killed in a car accident while on vacation in Italy. Brownstein was informed of the incident by bandmate Corin Tucker. The accident, and Brownstein’s feelings of grief, shaped the band’s next record, "Little Rope".{{Cite web |title=Sleater-Kinney Explains How Carrie Brownstein's Grief Inspired the Band's New Album 'Little Rope' (Exclusive) |url=https://people.com/sleater-kinney-new-album-little-rope-grief-exclusive-8423267 |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=People.com |language=en}}

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