Background
Preston was born and raised in Macon, Georgia. Her mother is an artist and art therapist, and her father is a geo-technical engineer
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 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).
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.
Emerson played Ben Linus on television"s Lost, and Preston was a guest star in episode 20 of season 3, "The Manitoba 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? Oklahoma!. 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. Foreign seven seasons she played Arlene Fowler on True Blood.
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 Columbia Broadcasting System"s The Good Wife. 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.
She is known for her work on the television series True Blood and Person of Interest, as well as The Good Wife, which earned her the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. 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. 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.
