Carrie Preston

Carrie Preston, primarily known as an actress, has been steadily working since graduating from the prestigious Juilliard School in 1994. Her films include Tony Gilroy’s Duplicity; John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, Alan Ball’s Towelhead; Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, That Evening Sun; and Seattle Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner Lovely by Surprise, directed by Kirt Gunn. Other films include: Transamerica; Straight-Jacket; Stepford Wives; My Best Friend’s Wedding; Mercury Rising; For Richer or Poorer; The Journey; The Cradle Will Rock; Guinevere; Woman Wanted.

She is a series regular on the hit HBO show True Blood, created by Alan Ball. Other TV includes: Lost; Desperate Housewives; Arrested Development; Law and Order: Criminal Intent; Numbers; Hope and Faith; Wonder Falls; Good Morning, Miami; Sex and the City; Spin City; The Inside; Union Square; Significant Others; and Trinity, as well as the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Grace and Glorie and the sitcom Emeril.

Her stage work includes: Broadway: Festen; The Rivals; The Tempest. Off-Broadway: Cycling Past the Matterhorn; Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center) Boys and Girls; Freedomland (Playwrights Horizons) Antony and Cleopatra (Public Theater); Straight-Jacket (Playhouse 91); The Libertine (Theatre Row). Regional theater: Hamlet (McCarter), Fran’s Bed (Long Wharf); Virginia Woolf (Guthrie); Taming of the Shrew (Williamstown) Cherry Orchard; She Stoops to Conquer; No Foreigners Beyond this Point (Baltimore Center Stage); Hamlet (Alabama Shakespeare).

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