Coen brothers we see things." Joel and Ethan graduated from St. Louis Park High School in 1973 and 1976, respectively, and from Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Joel then spent four years in the undergraduate film program at New York University, where he made a 30-minute thesis film called "Soundings". Ethan went on to Princeton University and earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy in 1979. His senior thesis was a 41-page essay, "Two Views of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy". Joel has been married to actress Frances McDormand since 1984. They adopted a son from Paraguay named Pedro McDormand Coen.
Joel Madden 16, 2014. The album title "Greetings from California" comes from a conversation that the brothers had over breakfast one morning where they were reminiscing over how far they had come since the days of making music in their bedrooms. In 2015, he appears as guest in the American TV series "Empire". From the beginning of the show in 2012 to the end of the fifth season in 2016, Joel was a coach on "The Voice Australia". He was also a coach with his brother Benji for "The Voice Kids". In 2013, Joel won the Logie Award for Most Popular New