After 26 Years of Marriage, Carrie Preston and Michael Emerson Face Off on ‘Elsbeth’: ‘It’s Like a Collision of Universes’

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Angelique Jackson SPOILER WARNING: This story discusses plot details from the latest episode of “Elsbeth,” which airs Thursdays on CBS.

Carrie Preston and Michael Emerson met 30 years ago during a production of “Hamlet” at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival — she played Ophelia; he was Guildenstern — and they married in 1998.

Since then, they’ve acted opposite one another a few times: Preston made a guest appearance on “Lost,” playing the mother of Emerson’s character in a flashback and she also recurred as his fiancée on “Person of Interest.” But Emerson’s arrival as a recurring guest star on Preston’s CBS show “Elsbeth” marks the first time the married couple play enemies. “Listen, I don’t see him in my marriage,” Preston says, referring to the long hours required to play the title character of a procedural, as she and Emerson log on to Zoom with Variety from their home in New York City. “I had to get a part on the show just to see my own wife,” Emerson cracks.

In the episode, titled “One Angry Woman,” Elsbeth gets summoned to jury duty (an obligation that means she’s finally a true New Yorker) and she lands on the jury of a murder trial presided over by an unusually difficult judge.