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Carrie Preston: Biography

Carrie Preston

Birth Place: Macon, GA
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/21/1967
Profession: Actor; director; producer

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Carrie Preston Fast Facts:

Studied ballet as a child.
Organized a front-yard theater group at age 12 in Macon, GA.
Met her husband, Michael Emerson, while the two were appearing in Hamlet at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
Appeared as the mother of Emerson's Lost character Ben Linus in a flashback sequence.
Has played Felicity Huffman's sister twice: first in the 2005 film Transamerica, and later in a 2007 episode of Desperate Housewives.
Cofounded the production company Daisy 3 Pictures in 2004.

Carrie Preston Relationships:
Michael Emerson - Husband
Pam Preston - Mother
Leslie - Sister
Ray Preston - Father
John G. Preston - Brother
Carrie Preston Awards:
2009 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series - Nominee
College:
University of Evansville, Evansville, IN (BFA, 1990); The Juilliard School, New York, NY (Diploma, 1994)

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