Carrie PrestonFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Songwriter
Biography:: As the impresario of her own front-yard theater troupe at the tender age of 12, there wasn't much question as to which direction the later career of actress Carrie Preston was headed. Serving as everything from stage hand to starlet made it clear to all that her dedication to theater ran deep even...Read More

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That Evening Sun

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Ray McKinnon, Walton Goggins, Mia Wasikowska, Carrie Preston

Synopsis: An aging farmer fights to keep the home that is rightfully his after fleeing from a nursing home and discovering that his son has leased the family farm to his old nemesis. Placed in a nursing home by his son and promptly forgotten, Abner Meecham (Hal Holbrook) realized that waiting to die was no Read More

11/6/09
Duplicity

Actors: Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti, Dan Daily

Synopsis: Closer co-stars Julia Roberts and Clive Owen reunite for Oscar-nominated director Tony Gilroy's drama tracing the illicit love affair between two spies-turned-corporate operatives. The Cold War has thawed, and for CIA agents seeking to make an easy mint, the real money is in multinational Read More

3/20/09
Doubt

Actors: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis, Alice Drummond

Synopsis: When the principal (Meryl Streep) of a Bronx Catholic High School accuses a popular priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of pedophilia, a young nun caught in between the feuding pair becomes hopelessly swept up in the ensuing controversy. 1964, St. Nicholas, the Bronx: The winds of change are sweeping Read More

12/12/08
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall, Patricia Clarkson

Synopsis: Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona stars Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson as best friends Vicky and Cristina. As the movie opens, the pair of twentysomethings travel to Barcelona so that Vicky can work on her post-graduate degree. The two meet the charming artist Juan Antonio Read More

8/15/08
Ready? OK!

Crew: Additional Music, Songwriter

Actors: Carrie Preston, Lurie Poston, John G. Preston, Michael Emerson, Kali Rocha

Synopsis: Carrie Preston, John G. Preston, Michael Emerson, and Lurie Poston star in director James Vasquez's coming of age comedy about a young boy obsessed with dresses, dolls, and cheerleading. Joshua Dowd (Poston) isn't like the other boys in class. All Joshua's single mother Andy (Carrie Preston) wants Read More

2008
True Blood: Season 01

Actors: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgård, Rutina Wesley, Ryan Kwanten

2008
Lovely By Surprise

Actors: Carrie Preston, Michael Chernus, Dallas Roberts, Austin Pendleton

Synopsis: A writer attempting to finish her first novel seeks the wisdom of her mentor and ex-lover in hopes of overcoming a crippling case of writer's block in writer/director Kurt Gunn's enigmatic thriller. Marian (Carrie Preston) is writing an absurdist novel about a par of brothers living in a Read More

2007
Transamerica

Actors: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Elizabeth Peña, Graham Greene

Synopsis: The first film by Duncan Tucker, Transamerica stars Felicity Huffman as a pre-operative transsexual named Bree (whose given name was Stanley). One week before going under the knife, Bree learns that she fathered a boy who is now 17 and is in trouble with the law. Bree would like to ignore this Read More

12/2/05
29th and Gay

Crew: Director

Actors: James Vasquez, Nicole Marcks, David McBean, Adam Greer

Synopsis: His thirtieth birthday rapidly approaching, a gay actor working as a tour guide at a movie studio theme park seeks to explore life outside the seductive allure of circuit parties in director Carrie Preston's soul searching independent comedy. James Sanchez is your typical late-twenties gay male; Read More

2005
Straight-Jacket

Actors: Matt Letscher, Carrie Preston, Veronica Cartwright, Adam Greer

Synopsis: An actor trying to keep the truth about his love life under wraps discovers feelings he doesn't want to hide in this frothy comedy. It's the mid-'50s, and Guy Stone (Matt Letscher) is a very successful movie star. Tall, good-looking, and boyishly charming, Stone has a reputation as a ladies' man Read More

11/26/04
Emeril [TV Series]

Actors: Emeril Lagasse, Robert Urich, Mary Page Keller, James Lafferty, Lisa Ann Walter, Sherri Shepherd, Carrie Preston

Synopsis: Master chef Emeril Lagasse, the garrulous star of one of cable TV's most popular cooking shows, played "himself" in this eponymously titled NBC sitcom. The story lines revolved around the behind-the-scenes intrigues attending Emeril's weekly TV series and his clashes with his virtually all-female Read More

2001
Guinevere

Actors: Stephen Rea, Sarah Polley, Jean Smart, Gina Gershon, Paul Dooley

Synopsis: Writer Audrey Wells (The Truth About Cats and Dogs) makes her directing debut in Guinevere, which won the screenwriting award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, where it made its world premiere. The film concerns Harper Sloane, a twenty-something upper class pre-law student who falls for Connie Read More

9/24/99
Mercury Rising

Actors: Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens

Synopsis: In this action-suspense thriller, orphaned nine-year-old autistic savant Simon (Miko Hughes) deciphers a government code hidden in a puzzle magazine. Calling for his prize, Simon triggers an alarm at the National Security Agency: NSA chief Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin), who says the code protects Read More

1998
Grace and Glorie

Synopsis: Adapted from a play by Tom Ziegler, the made-for-TV Grace and Glorie stars Gena Rowlands and Diane Lane as the title characters. Disenchanted with her empty existence in New York City, stylish but lonely Gloria "Glorie" Greenwood heads to the country, where she becomes a hospice worker in the Read More

1998
My Best Friend's Wedding

Actors: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett, Philip Bosco

Synopsis: A woman realizes that friends can be lovers, but now has to convince the friend in question in this romantic comedy. Michael O'Neal (Dermot Mulroney) and Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) were romantically involved in college, and after breaking up, they have managed to remain close friends. For Read More

1997
For Richer or Poorer

Actors: Tim Allen, Kirstie Alley, Jay O. Sanders, Michael Lerner, Wayne Knight

Synopsis: Plagued by debts, New Yorkers Brad (Tim Allen) and Caroline (Kirstie Alley) Sexton continue to live the high life while maintaining the deception of wealth. But then real estate developer Brad learns his accountant has balanced the books in his own favor, appropriated $5 million, and flown to Read More

1997
The Journey

Actors: Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, Antony Zaki, Carrie Preston, Nora Bates

Synopsis: Widower Kishan Singh (Roshan Seth), a retired schoolmaster, arrives in the United States to live with his son Raj (Antony Zaki), a Pittsburgh doctor married to very proper Laura (Carrie Preston). The couple is too busy to spend much time with their daughter Jenny (Nora Bates). Kishan creates Read More

1997