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Biography:For many impressionable filmgoers, actress Jennifer Carpenter will forever be the sheltered teen at the center of a controversial demonic possession case in The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Though her filmography has also included such features as White Chicks and D.E.B.S., it was the small screen that next served to improve her profile when the Kentucky native and Juilliard graduate took on a challenging role on the acclaimed Showtime series Dexter.

It was Carpenter's aunt who helped to get the aspiring young actress interested in a career as a performer, and though her dad urged her to have a backup plan, there was no room for a halfhearted attempt as far as the determined daughter was concerned. In the years that followed, she threw herself headlong into her craft, eventually landing her breakthrough role opposite Angela Bettis in director Kevin Ford's intersecting-lives drama People Are Dead in... Full Biography

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Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter attend the CBS, CW, Showtime TCA party at the Huntington...
Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter attend the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly...
Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter attend the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild awards at the...
Jennifer Carpenter in "Quarantine" (Sony Pictures)
Jennifer Carpenter in "Quarantine" (Sony Pictures)
Jennifer Carpenter in "Quarantine" (Sony Pictures)
Jennifer Carpenter in "Quarantine" (Sony Pictures)
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