Carrie Preston
Carrie Preston
Carrie Preston 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth21 June 1967
CityMacon, GA
CountryUnited States of America
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'The Good Wife' was definitely the biggest surprise and gift that I've had in a long time, and that did come out of some other work that I had done. That whole adage of 'work begets work' actually worked in that case - it was at the very end of their first season that my character was first introduced.
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I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be too happy or it's boring. People don't want to watch that - they want to watch things that are exciting and dangerous and sexy and have tension.
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'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.
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I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.'
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I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It exercises all of my creative muscles.
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Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.
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We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.