| Carrie Preston | ||
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| Date of birth 21 June, 1967 | ||
| Place of birth Macon, Georgia | ||
| IMDb profile |
Carrie Preston is an actress who has made several guest appearances on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Preston also starred on HBO's True Blood (with Chris Bauer, Ryan Kwanten, Deborah Ann Woll, and James Frain) and also Polly in TNT's dramedy (drama/comedy) series Claws (with Jason Antoon, Dean Norris, Harold Perrineau, Kevin Rankin, and Judy Reyes).
Preston received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Elsbeth Tascioni on CBS's acclaimed drama series The Good Wife (with Julianna Margulies, Chris Noth, Josh Charles and Christine Baranski) and The Good Fight (again with Baranski). For her work on The Good Wife, Preston received two nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, winning once. She then headlined the spinoff show Elsbeth.
She is married to actor Michael Emerson since 1998, whom she worked with on several projects together: 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!. She appeared in several episodes of Person of Interest (with Amy Acker, James Carpinello, Annie Parisse, and Camryn Manheim) as Grace Hendricks, the former fiancée of Emerson's character, Harold Finch.
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| Megan Colby | Doreen Whitlock | Lena Copeland | Bella Zane |
| CI: "Zoonotic" | CI: "Magnificat" | CI: "Bedfellows" | SVU: "Educated Guess" |