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LOS ANGELES – SEP 16: Preston at the TV Academy Performer Nominee Reception at the Pacific Design Center on September 16, 2016 in West Hollywood, CA, Joe Seer /bigstock.com
Birth Name: Carrie Elizabeth Preston
Place of Birth: Macon, Georgia, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 21, 1967
Ethnicity: English, Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Nothern Irish, possibly other
Carrie Preston is an American actress, director, and producer. Her roles include the films Mercury Rising , Guinevere , Woman Wanted , Straight-Jacket (2004), Transamerica , Lovely by Surprise , Towelhead , Ready? OK! , Vicky Cristina Barcelona , Duplicity , That Evening Sun , Virginia (2010), A Bag of Hammers , Sironia , Vino Veritas , 5 Flights Up , To the Bone , And Then I Go , Daisy Winters , 30 Miles from Nowhere , Space Oddity , They/Them , and The Holdovers , and the shows True Blood , The Good Wife , Person of Interest , Crowded , When We Rise , The Good Fight , and Claws .
Carrie is the daughter of Pamela and John Preston. Her brother is actor John G. Preston. Carrie is married to actor Michael Emerson .
Carrie’s paternal grandfather was John Gray Preston (the son of John Ray Preston and Anita C. Miller). Carrie’s great-grandfather John was born in Oxford, Chenango County, New York, the son of Abner George Preston. Anita was also born in New York.
Carrie’s paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Walker (the daughter of David Albert Walker and Fannie Mangham Hill). David was born in Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky, the son of Algernon Sidney Walker, Jr. and Grace Evelyn “Eva” McGoodwin. Carrie’s great-grandmother Fannie was born in Georgia, the daughter of David Winn Hill and Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” Mangham.
Carrie’s maternal grandfather’s surname possibly was Lowe.
Sources: Genealogy of Carrie’s father – https://sv.findagrave.com
Social Security death record of Carrie’s paternal grandfather, John Gray Preston – https://www.familysearch.org