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

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

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