![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Actor, Additional Music, 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 at such an early age; eventually, Preston would graduate from the sound stage to the bright lights of Broadway opposite many of her generation's finest classically trained actors.
Born and raised the daughter of an artist and art therapist mother and a geo-technical engineer father in Macon, GA, the stage-smitten youngster later earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Evansville. After continuing her education with an acting diploma from Juilliard, Preston found a choice early career role as Miranda (opposite "Patrick Stewart") in a Shakespeare-in-the Park production of The Tempest.... Full Biography
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