Carrie Preston

Carrie Preston

Born: June 21, 1967
Age: 56
Birthplace: Macon, Georgia, U.S.
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Biography

Carrie Preston (born June 21, 1967) is an American actress, producer and director. She is known for her work on the television series True Blood, Person of Interest and Crowded, as well as The Good Wife, for which she earned the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

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Early life and education

Preston was born and raised in Macon, Georgia. Her mother is an artist and art therapist, and her father is a geo-technical engineer. She began performing in community theater shows at age 8, and by age 12 she had begun her own front-yard theater company with other neighborhood kids. Her brother is actor John G. Preston. Both are graduates of Central High School in Macon, Georgia.

She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Evansville (1990), followed by an acting diploma from the Juilliard School's Drama Division (Group 23: 1990-1994).

Career

Preston has worked with her husband, actor Michael Emerson, on a number of projects. Emerson played Ben Linus on television's Lost, and Preston was a guest star in episode 20 of season 3, "The Man Behind the Curtain" as Ben's mother Emily in flashback scenes, though she and Emerson never shared scenes together. The couple were featured in the 2004 comedy film Straight-Jacket and the 2008 feature film, Ready? OK!. Most recently, she has appeared in several episodes of Person of Interest as Grace Hendricks, the former fiancée of Emerson's character, Harold Finch.

Preston is co-owner of the production company Daisy 3 Pictures with James Vasquez and Mark Holmes. For seven seasons she played Arlene Fowler on True Blood. On July 31, 2010, Carrie Preston and her husband, Michael Emerson, read A. R. Gurney's Love Letters, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, at the Charleston Stage. They performed it as a fundraiser for the South Carolina's theatre. The reading was followed by a brief "Question and Answer" session.

Preston has a recurring role playing Elsbeth Tascioni, an eccentric but extremely effective trial lawyer on CBS's The Good Wife. First introduced in season one and recurring on seasons three through seven the character is a fan favorite, and Preston won the 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her work on the show.

On September 6, 2013, it was announced that Preston signed on to play a recurring character in the second season of the Kevin Bacon-led thriller, The Following. She portrayed Judy, a prostitute and ill-fated groupie of Joe Carroll. The show's second season premiered in January 2014.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1985 Just a Friend Mint Jennifer
1997 My Best Friend's Wedding Mandy Newhouse
1997 The Journey Laura Singh
1997 For Richer or Poorer Rebecca Yoder
1998 Mercury Rising Emily Lang
1999 Guinevere Patty
1999 Cradle Will Rock VTA - Administrator
2000 Woman Wanted Monica
2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance Idalyn Greaves
2004 Straight-Jacket Sally Stone
2004 The Stepford Wives Barbara
2005 Transamerica Sydney Schupak
2007 Lovely by Surprise Marian Walker
2007 Towelhead Evelyn Vuoso
2008 Ready? OK! Andy Dowd
2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona Sally
2008 Doubt Christine Hurley
2009 Duplicity Barbara Bofferd
2009 That Evening Sun Ludie Choat
2010 Virginia Betty
2011 A Bag of Hammers Lynette Patterson
2011 Sironia Grace
2012 Vino Veritas Claire
2012 Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf? Chloe / Angel Tits
2013 Beneath the Harvest Sky Kim
2014 5 Flights Up Miriam Carswell
2016 Equity Compliance Officer Abby
2017 To the Bone Filming

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1996 Cutty Whitman Sheriff TV film
1997 Union Square Jester Episode: "Michael's First Stand"
1998 Five Houses Unknown TV film
1998 Significant Others Patti Pasternak Episode: "My Left Kidney"
1998 Grace & Glorie Charlene Stiles TV film
1999 Spin City Gayle Episode: "Carter & Stuart & Bennett & Deirdre"
1999 Sex and the City Madeline Dunn Episode: "The Chicken Dance"
2001 Emeril B.D. Benson 10 episodes
2003 Good Morning, Miami Kiera Donahue Episode: "The Slow and the Furious"
2003 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Megan Colby Episode: "Zoonotic"
2004 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Doreen Whitlock Episode: "Magnificat"
2004 Wonderfalls Sister Katrina Episode: "Wound-Up Penguin"
2004 Hope & Faith Sally Jones Episode: "Queer as Hope"
2005 Numb3rs Vicky Sites Episode: "Dirty Bomb"
2005 The Inside Kelly Comack Episode: "Pre-Filer"
2006 Arrested Development Jan Eagleman Episode: "Fakin' It"
2006 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Lena Copeland Episode: "Bedfellows"
2007 Lost Emily Linus Episode: "The Man Behind the Curtain"
2007 Desperate Housewives Lucy Lindquist Episode: "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover"
2008-14 True Blood Arlene Fowler 76 episodes
2009 Private Practice Yvonne Pierce Episode: "Do the Right Thing"
2010-16 The Good Wife Elsbeth Tascioni 14 episodes
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Nominated - Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series
2011 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Bella Zane Episode: "Educated Guess"
2012 Royal Pains Jackie Van Ark Episode: "Hurts Like a Mother"
2012-16 Person of Interest Grace Hendricks 7 episodes
2014 The Following Judy Lang 3 episodes
2014 Getting On Denya Thorp Episode: "The 7th Annual Christmas Card Competition"
2015 Happyish Debbie Dubonte 10 episodes
2016 Crowded Martina Moore 13 episodes
2016 Grace and Frankie Krystle Episode: "The Goodbyes"

Stage

Year Title Role Notes
1995 Indiscretions Madeleine (Standby) Ethel Barrymore Theatre
1995 The Tempest Miranda Broadhurst Theatre
1997 Antony and Cleopatra Octavia the Younger The Public Theater
1998 Freedomland Polly Underfinger Playwrights Horizons
2000 Straight-Jacket Sally Stone Playhouse 91
2000 She Stoops to Conquer Kate Hardcastle Center Stage
2001 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Honey Guthrie Theater
2001 Chaucer in Rome Sarah Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
2002 Boys and Girls Shelly Duke on 42nd Street
2002 No Foreigners Beyond This Point Paula Wheaton Center Stage
2004-05 The Rivals Julia Melville Vivian Beaumont Theater
2005 Cycling Past the Matterhorn Amy Harold Clurman Theater
2005 Hamlet Ophelia McCarter Theatre Center
2006 Festen Mette Music Box Theatre
2010 Love Letters Melissa Gardner Charleston Stage

Other works

Year Title Notes
2005 29th and Gay Director, executive producer, editor
2007 Feet of Clay Director, executive producer
2008 Ready? OK! Executive producer
2008 Girl Talk Director
2012 That's What She Said Director, producer

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